Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Green Howards
_Captains._ _Lieutenants._ _Ensigns._
Baldwin Mallett. R. Williams (_Capt._). Joseph Lewis.
Alexander Lutterell. John Dodington. Abraham Hancock.
Edmund Bowyer.[6] N. Simmons. Capell Stocker.
William Coward.[6] John Redmore. Thomas Adams.
Joseph Pigman.[6] William Willoughby. -- Sidenham.
Hopton Wynham. R. Wyndham. -- Ensate.
Robert Carey.[6] George Prater. Robert Norcott.
Walter Vincent.[6] William Webb. Thomas Robinson.
Charles Burlington.[6] John Calmady. Thomas Freke.
-- Simmons.[6] John West. Thomas Resdin.
Hugh Mallett. -- Gregor.
Lawrence Coward.
_Adjutant_, John West. _Surgeon_, T. Allen.
_Quarter-Master_, Arthur Balsam.
In the summer of this year the regiment marched to Portsmouth; it was
afterwards stationed in the Isle of Wight, and in September embarked
on board the fleet to serve as marines; but landed at Plymouth in the
winter.
[Sidenote: 1690]
The authority of King William being resisted in Ireland, an army was
sent to that country under Marshal Duke Schomberg, and in March,
1690, the NINETEENTH received orders to send five hundred and twenty
men to Ireland, to replace the losses sustained by many regiments
at the unhealthy camp of Dundalk. The regiment afterwards sent a
detachment to the West Indies, where nearly all the men died. The
regiment also sustained the loss of its colonel, who died this year.
[Sidenote: 1691]
In 1691 the regiment was stationed in England recruiting, and the
colonelcy was conferred on Colonel Thomas Erle, from a regiment which
was raised in March, 1689, and disbanded after the treaty of Ryswick
in 1697.
[Sidenote: 1692]
Having recruited its ranks and attained a state of efficiency, the
regiment embarked for Flanders in the spring of 1692, and joined the
confederate army, commanded by the British monarch in person, whose
efforts were directed to arrest the progress of aggression pursued by
Louis XIV.;--it served the campaign of this year against the French
under Marshal Luxemburg.
At the battle of _Steenkirk_, on the 3rd of August, the regiment was
in the main body of the allied army, and the advance-guard being
repulsed before the supporting columns arrived at the field of
battle, King William ordered a retreat. Colonel ERLE's regiment was
one of the corps which did not sustain any loss.
[Sidenote: 1693]
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