"The enemy has been taught, that whatever advantages of position, or of _numbers_ he may employ, there is inherent in the British officers and soldiers, a bravery that knows not how to yield,--that no circumstances can appal,--and that will ensure victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human means." The flank companies of the FORTY-SIXTH formed part of the troops which reduced _Martinique_ in February, 1809, and thus the services of the regiment were a _second_ time connected with the conquest of that island. In 1810, the flank companies of the regiment shared in the reduction of _Guadaloupe_, and were honorably mentioned in the despatches. In 1811, the regiment arrived in England from the _West Indies_, and in 1813 embarked for New South Wales, from which country it proceeded, in 1817, to the East Indies, and returned to Great Britain in 1833. The regiment embarked for Gibraltar in 1837; proceeded to the _West Indies_ in 1842, and to _North America_ in 1845, whence it returned, in 1848, to England. Services of the foregoing description, combined with excellent conduct in quarters at home and abroad, during a period of upwards of a century, have deservedly acquired for the regiment the approbation of the Sovereign, and the confidence of the Nation. ------ 1851 ------ FOOTNOTES: [6] The "_Pragmatic Sanction_" was published by the Emperor Charles the Sixth on the 17th of April, 1713, whereby, in case of his having no male issue, his daughters were to succeed to his hereditary dominions, in preference to the sons of his late brother, Joseph the First. [7] The _ten_ regiments of Marines took rank in the regular Army, and were numbered from the _Forty-fourth_ to the _Fifty-third_ regiment:--The _seven_ additional regiments of Infantry, raised in January 1741, were numbered from the _Fifty-fourth_ to the _Sixtieth_ regiment. [8] _James Francis Edward_, "_The Pretender_," son of _James II._, and of _Mary_, his second wife, daughter of the Duke of Modena, was born on the 10th June, 1688. He married, in 1719, Mary Clementina, daughter of Prince James Sobieski, and granddaughter of John Sobieski, King of Poland. He died on the 1st June, 1766, (aged 78 years), leaving issue two sons:-- 1. _Charles Edward Louis Cassimir_, termed in England "_The Young Pretender_;" born on the 30th November, 1720, who married the Princess Stohlberg of Germany, and died at Rome, without issue, on the 31st January, 1788. 2. _Henry Benedict_, called _The Cardinal York_; born on the 24th March, 1725. When the last grand effort for the restoration of his family, in 1745, proved abortive, he took holy orders, and was elevated to the purple by Pope Benedict XIV. in 1747, and died at Rome in 1807. The Cardinal was the last male branch of the House of Stuart.