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)
of his two immediate successors in the peerage, added to which he
received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, of the Court of
Directors of the East India Company, and other marks of public
approbation. These honors were not long enjoyed by Lieut.-General
Lord Keane, who died in the sixty-fourth year of his age, at Burton
Lodge, Hampshire, on the 26th of August 1844.
JOHN ROSS, C.B.
_Appointed 1st of August, 1839._
LIEUT.-GENERAL ROSS commenced his military career as an ensign in
the thirty-sixth regiment, his commission being dated 2nd of June
1793; was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the fifty-second
regiment on the 8th of May 1796, and to that of captain on the 11th
of January 1800. Captain Ross served with the expedition against
Ferrol under Lieut.-General Sir James Pulteney in August following,
and was engaged with the enemy. On the 15th of August 1804, he was
promoted to the rank of major in the fifty-second regiment, and
obtained the rank of lieut.-colonel in the army on the 28th of
January 1808, and was promoted lieut.-colonel in the fifty-second
regiment on the 18th of February following. Lieut.-Colonel Ross
commanded the second battalion of the fifty-second regiment at
the battle of Vimiera, on the 21st of August 1808, for which he
received a medal; and also during the campaign in Spain under
Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, which ended by the battle of Corunna
on the 16th of January 1809. Lieut.-Colonel Ross in July following
commanded five companies of the fifty-second regiment, which
formed part of the force under Lieut.-General the Earl of Chatham,
employed in the expedition to the Scheldt. Lieut.-Colonel Ross
subsequently proceeded to the Peninsula, and commanded the first
battalion of the fifty-second at the actions of Pombal, Redinha,
Miranda de Corvo, Foz d'Arronce and Sabugal, and at the battle of
Fuentes d'Onor. On the 18th of July 1811, he was removed to the
sixty-sixth regiment, and in August following he was appointed
Deputy Adjutant-General to the forces in Ceylon, from whence he
returned to Europe in June 1814 for the benefit of his health; was
promoted to the brevet rank of colonel on the 4th of that month;
and was subsequently appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland.
In June 1815, he was nominated a Companion of the Order of the
Bath, and on the 12th of August 1819, Colonel Ross was appointed
Commandant of the Depôt at the Isle of Wight. On the 27th of May
1825, he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and on the 14th
of August 1828, was appointed Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, which
he held until the 31st of March 1837. His Majesty King William IV.
appointed Major-General Ross to be colonel of the ninety-eighth
regiment on the 30th of May 1836; on the 28th of June 1838, he
was advanced to the rank of lieut.-general. In August 1839,
Lieut.-General Ross was removed to the FORTY-SIXTH regiment. The
decease of Lieut.-General Ross, C.B., occurred at Southampton on
the 17th of May 1843.
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