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Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment : $b Containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1850 — John Shaqi

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Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment : $b Containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1850

Name: Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment : $b Containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1850
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army. Gordon Highlanders

1796 George, Marquis of Huntly, G.C.B.                           127
  1806 John, Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.B.                              129
  1820 Sir John Hope, G.C.B.                                       131
  1823 Honorable Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.B.                        132
  1831 John, Earl of Stair, K.T.                                     —
  1843 Sir William Macbean, K.C.B.                                   —

  SUCCESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS                                133

  SUCCESSION OF MAJORS                                             134




APPENDIX.


                                                                  Page

  General Order, dated 16th of May, 1801, relating to
      the campaign in Egypt, and the death of
      General Sir Ralph Abercromby                                 137

  List of regiments, and names of the Commanding Officers,
      employed in Egypt in 1801                                    139

  List of regiments employed in the expedition to
      Copenhagen in 1807                                           141

  General Orders, dated 18th of January, and 1st of
      February, 1809, relating to the _Battle of
      Corunna_, and the death of Lieut.-General Sir
      John Moore, on the 16th of January, 1809               142 & 144

  List of regiments, and the names of the Commanding
       Officers, which composed the army under
       Lieut.-General Sir John Moore at Corunna                    146

  List of the British and Hanoverian regiments, as
      formed in brigades and divisions, and the names
      of the General Officers, and of the Commanding
      Officers of Regiments, at the _Battle of Waterloo_,
      on the 18th of June, 1815                                    147


[Illustration: 92nd REGIMENT (GORDON HIGHLANDERS.)

_For Cannon’s Military Records._

_Madeley Lith. 3, Wellington St. Strand._]




HISTORICAL RECORD

OF

THE NINETY-SECOND REGIMENT,

(HIGHLANDERS.)


[Sidenote: 1793]

The French Revolution, which commenced in the year 1789, by its
destroying and sanguinary course, menaced Europe with universal
anarchy. On the 21st of January, 1793, Louis XVI. was decapitated,
and on the 1st of February the National Convention declared war
against Great Britain and Holland.

Augmentations were in consequence made to the army; volunteer
companies were formed by the patriotism of the British people, and
every exertion was made to defend those institutions which had raised
England to a high position among the nations of Europe.

[Sidenote: 1794]

To these events the NINETY-SECOND regiment owes its origin. A letter
of service was addressed to the Duke of Gordon on the 10th of
February, 1794, authorizing him to raise a regiment in Scotland, and
the commission of Lieut.-Colonel Commandant was conferred upon his
son the Marquis of Huntly.

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Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment : $b Containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1850

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