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
LORD GEORGE BEAUCLERK, sixth son of Charles first Duke of St.
Albans, served in the first regiment of foot guards, and was
promoted to Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in September, 1736. In 1745
he was nominated Aide-de-camp to King George II. with the rank
of Colonel, and in 1747 he obtained the colonelcy of the eighth
Marines (afterwards disbanded), from which he was removed, in 1748,
to the NINETEENTH regiment: in 1753 he was appointed governor of
Landguard Fort. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General in
1755, and to that of Lieut.-General in 1758. He performed the duties
of Commander-in-chief in Scotland some time; and was Member of
Parliament for Windsor. He died on the 11th of May, 1768.
DAVID GRAEME.
_Appointed 25th May, 1768._
DAVID GRAEME evinced loyalty and zeal for the interests of the
Crown and Kingdom, during the Seven Years' War, by raising a corps
of Highlanders, which was honored with the title of the 105th,
or Queen's Own Royal regiment of Highlanders, of which he was
appointed Colonel in 1761. This corps was disbanded after the peace
in 1763; and in 1764 he was nominated Colonel of the forty-ninth
regiment, from which he was removed, in 1768, to the NINETEENTH.
He was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1762; to that of
Lieut.-General in 1772; and to that of General in 1783. He died in
1797.
SAMUEL HULSE.
_Appointed 24th January, 1797._
SAMUEL HULSE entered the army in 1761, as ensign in the first foot
guards, and was promoted to Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in 1776;
in 1780 he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of his regiment,
with the rank of Colonel, and was employed in suppressing the riots
in London in the same year. At the commencement of the French
revolutionary war, he was called into active service, and commanded
the first battalion of his regiment, in Flanders, in 1793. He served
at the siege of Valenciennes; and distinguished himself at the action
of Lincelles, on the 18th of August, for which he was thanked in
orders by His Royal Highness the Duke of York. He was engaged in the
operations before Dunkirk, and in the subsequent movements until
October, when he was promoted to the rank of Major-General, and
returned to England. In May of the following year he again proceeded
to Flanders, and commanded a brigade before Tournay, where several
partial actions occurred, and in the retreat to Holland. Returning to
England early in 1795, he was appointed Colonel of the fifty-sixth
regiment, and placed on the home staff, where he continued three
years: in 1797 he was removed to the NINETEENTH regiment. On the 1st
of January, 1798, he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General,
and during the troubles in Ireland, in the summer of that year, his
services were extended to that part of the kingdom, but he returned
to England in November, and resumed his command on the staff. He
served in Holland under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, in
1799, and was at the several engagements from the 19th of September
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