Historical Record of the Forty-sixth or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1741 and of Its Subsequent Services to 1851Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Forty-sixth or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1741 and of Its Subsequent Services to 1851
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 46th (South Devonshire)
[9] _Preston_, contracted from _Priests' town_, the early
proprietors of the soil being the monks of Holyrood and Newbattle,
who erected on the sea-shore _pans_ for the manufacture of salt,
from which circumstance it received the name of _Preston-Pans_.
[10] _Return of the Officers and Men in each regiment of Infantry
on the day of the Battle of Culloden_:--
Serjeants,
Officers. Drummers,
and Rank
and File.
Royal Scots now 1st Foot 26 455
Lieut.-General Howard's regiment " 3rd " 16 448
" Barrell's " " 4th " 20 353
Major-General Wolfe's " " 8th " 22 352
" Pulteney's " " 13th " 22 352
Brigadier-General Price's " " 14th " 23 336
" Bligh's " " 20th " 20 447
Major-General Campbell's " " 21st " 19 393
Brig.-General Lord Semple's " " 25th " 23 392
Major-General Blakeney's " " 27th " 20 336
Brig.-General Cholmondeley's " 34th " 24 435
" Fleming's " " 36th " 26 389
Colonel Battereau's " " (disbanded) 27 396
" Dejean's " " 37th regt. 23 468
" Conway's " " 48th " 24 362
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Total 335 5,914
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[11] The _seven_ regiments, raised in 1741, were numbered as shown
in the following list, and the _Numerical titles_ of six of them,
which have since been retained on the establishment of the army,
were changed after the Peace of 1748, as specified, viz.:--
54th regt., com. by Col. Thomas Fowke, now the 43rd regt.
55th " " James Long " 44th "
56th " " D. Houghton " 45th "
57th " " John Price " 46th "
58th " " J. Mordaunt " 47th "
59th " " J. Cholmondeley " 48th "
60th " " H. De Grangue disbanded in 1748.
[12] Cape Breton was captured by the troops under Lieut.-General
Amherst, on the 26th of July, 1758.
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