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 1850Cannon, Richard
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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
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Gordon Highlanders
The following officers were wounded: Captains Hon. John Ramsay and
Archibald McDonell; Lieutenants, Norman McLeod, Charles Dowle
(mortally), Donald McDonald, Tomlin Campbell (mortally), Alexander
Clarke (mortally), and Ronald Macdonald; Ensigns, Peter Wilkie
and Alexander Cameron; twenty-two rank and file were killed, and
seventy-seven were wounded.
On the 14th of March, the army occupied the position, from which the
enemy was driven the day before, and the troops were employed in
throwing up works. On this day, General Sir Ralph Abercromby thanked
the troops for their soldier-like and intrepid conduct, in the
action of yesterday, and particularised the NINETY-SECOND regiment.
It may not be irrelevant to state, that he selected the regiment to
furnish the guard at his head-quarters from his first landing in
Egypt, to the hour of his death; and the regiment was continued by
Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Hutchinson, on that duty, until its
final departure from that country.
In consequence of the reduced state of the regiment from sickness,
and the casualties of the 13th of March, it was ordered on the 20th
of March (with the exception of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard),
to march at three o’clock next morning to relieve the battalion of
marines at Aboukir Castle; where the following Brigade Order was
issued:—
“Major-General Coote feels extreme concern, that the
NINETY-SECOND regiment is ordered to march to Aboukir; he hopes
they will soon return to the army, and cannot part with that
corps without requesting, that the officers and men will accept
his best thanks, for their attention to their duty since they
have been under his command.”
About half an hour after the regiment commenced its march on the
21st of March for Aboukir, when the French forces at _Alexandria_,
having been augmented by the arrival of additional troops from
the interior, advanced under General Menou, to attack the British
position. Major Alexander Napier, upon hearing the firing,
immediately countermarched the regiment, and resumed his former
station in the line, in which it was hotly engaged throughout the
day: no sooner had the enemy retired from this struggle, and resigned
the victory to the British army, than the army became aware of the
loss it had sustained in the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Ralph
Abercromby, who received a mortal wound at the commencement of the
action, but which he concealed until the battle was decided. Sir
Ralph Abercromby died on the 28th of March, and was buried at Malta.
The NINETY-SECOND had Captain John Cameron, and Lieutenant James
Stewart Mathison wounded; three rank and file killed; and forty-four
wounded.
Orders were again issued for the march of the regiment on the
following morning, provided no attack was made by the enemy, and it
accordingly marched to _Aboukir_.
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