Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or, the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1845Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or, the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1845
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 14th (Buckinghamshire)
GEORGE HOTHAM procured the appointment of ensign in the First
Foot Guards on the 14th of May, 1759; he was promoted to the rank
of lieutenant and captain in 1765; and to that of captain and
lieutenant-colonel in 1775. In 1781 he was appointed aide-de-camp
to the King, with the rank of colonel in the army; and in 1789 he
obtained the colonelcy of the FOURTEENTH Foot. His commissions of
general officer were dated,--major-general, 28th of April, 1790,
lieutenant-general, 26th of January, 1797, and general, 29th of
April, 1802. He died in 1806.
SIR HARRY CALVERT, BARONET, G.C.B.
_Appointed 8th February, 1806._
SIR HARRY CALVERT, Baronet, was appointed second lieutenant in
the Twenty-third, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in April, 1778; he was
several months at the Royal Military College at Woolwich, and
proceeding to North America in the following year, he joined
his regiment, which was then employed on the outpost duty of
the army. In December, 1779, he served with his regiment in the
expedition, under Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, to South
Carolina, and was at the siege and capture of Charlestown. He
afterwards served under the Marquis Cornwallis, and shared in all
the difficulties, dangers, and privations, in the campaigns of
the southern provinces, until the siege of York Town, when the
Marquis Cornwallis was forced to surrender, with the troops under
his command, to General Washington. He remained a prisoner of war
from October, 1781, until the peace in 1783, when he proceeded with
his regiment to New York. In the early part of 1784 he returned
to England, when he procured permission to pass the remainder of
the year on the Continent. In October, 1786, he purchased the
command of a company in his regiment, with which he did duty
until the spring of 1790, when he exchanged into the Coldstream
Guards. On the breaking out of the war of the French revolution, in
1793, he proceeded with the brigade of Foot Guards, commanded by
Major-General (afterwards Lord) Lake, to Holland, and when the Duke
of York assumed the command of the British and Hanoverian troops in
Flanders, Captain Calvert was nominated one of His Royal Highness's
aides-de-camp. After serving in this capacity until the surrender
of Valenciennes, he was sent to England with the account of that
event, on which occasion King George III. was pleased to confer on
him the rank of major. He obtained the rank of lieutenant-colonel
in December, 1793, by the purchase of a company in the Coldstream
Guards. He served with the allied army during the year 1794, and
returned to England on the recall of the British troops early
in 1795. In May of that year he was employed on a confidential
mission to the court of Berlin; and in 1796 he was appointed Deputy
Adjutant-General to the Forces: he obtained the rank of colonel in
June 1797, and in 1799 he was appointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy
of the Sixty-third Regiment.
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