Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Origin of the Regiment in the Reign of King James VI. of Scotland, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Origin of the Regiment in the Reign of King James VI. of Scotland, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 1st (Royal Scots)
Thus the ROYALS were triumphant near the same ground where the
regiment, when forming part of the GREEN BRIGADE in the service of
Gustavus Adolphus, distinguished itself in March 1632.
The first battalion of the ROYAL Regiment had Captain Murray, Ensigns
M'Dugal and M'Ilroy, one serjeant, and 38 rank and file killed; and
Lieut.-Colonel White, Major Cockburn, Captains Hume, Irwin, and Brown;
Lieutenants Kid and Ballatine; Ensigns Stratton, Cunningham, and
Stewart; with 3 serjeants, and 103 rank and file, wounded.
The second battalion had Captain Baily and Lieutenant Levingston,
with 1 serjeant and 76 private men, killed; and Major Kerr, Captain
Carr, Lieutenants Pearson, Moore, Vernel, Hay, Dickson, and Hamilton,
Ensigns M'Queen, M'Onway, Moremere, Elliot, Inglis, and Moore, with 12
serjeants, and 184 rank and file, wounded.
The victory at Schellenberg was immediately followed by the flight of
the enemy from Donawerth, which place was taken possession of by the
allies. At the same time the ROYAL Regiment crossed the Danube, and
advancing into Bavaria, was engaged in operations with the army; while
the French and Bavarians, having made a hasty retreat to Augsburg,
formed an entrenched camp near that city. The enemy also abandoned
several small towns, which were taken possession of by the allies, and
Rayn was captured after a short siege. The army afterwards advanced
towards Augsburg, and halted a short time within sight of the enemy's
fortified camp. In the mean time each regiment sent out parties to
plunder the country. This occasioned the Elector of Bavaria to engage
in a treaty with the view of an accommodation; but he soon afterwards
received information that another reinforcement of French troops had
traversed the Black Forest, when he broke off the treaty, which so
incensed the Imperialists that they laid a great part of Bavaria in
ashes.
The fortified camp at Augsburg being found too strong to be attacked
with any prospect of success, the troops retired a few stages, and the
siege of Ingoldstadt was undertaken by a detachment of Germans, at the
same time the ROYAL Regiment formed part of the covering army.
The Elector of Bavaria quitted his entrenched camp, and having formed
a junction with the reinforcements which Louis XIV. had sent to his
aid, the united armies encamped in the valley of the Danube, near the
village of _Blenheim_. At the same time the allied army, commanded by
the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, had advanced to the
village of Minster, and was encamped with its left to the Danube.
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