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
History
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
Information having been obtained that Napoleon purposed employing the
navy of _Denmark_ against Great Britain, an armament was prepared
for obtaining possession of the Danish fleet by treaty or force, on
the assurance that it should be restored at the conclusion of the
war with France. The first battalion was destined to share in this
enterprise, and it received orders, on the 22nd of July, to be in
readiness for foreign service.
The battalion, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Napier, marched for
Harwich on the 26th of July, and embarked on the same day, after
being inspected by Lieut.-General Sir David Baird. On the 27th a
draft of one hundred and three rank and file joined from the second
battalion: the effective strength of the first battalion consisted
of forty-eight serjeants, nineteen drummers, and nine hundred and
eighty-one rank and file.
On the 1st of August, the expedition sailed, and on the 8th anchored
in the Sound near Elsineur. On the following day, Lieut.-General
Harry Burrard[11] directed the army assembling in the Sound to
be formed in brigades and divisions, and that the forty-third,
fifty-second, NINETY-SECOND, and ninety-fifth (Rifle) regiments
should compose the reserve, under Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley,
until the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief.
Lieut.-General Lord Cathcart arrived on the 12th of August, and
assumed the command of the army; on the 14th the fleet sailed towards
_Copenhagen_, and on the 16th of August the army landed at Vedeck,
in Zealand, situated about half-way between Elsineur and Copenhagen,
without opposition, and on the following day the regiment went into
cantonments in Hassan, and Broomskoy. Its movements were various, and
dependent upon circumstances during this period.
The NINETY-SECOND regiment advanced towards Roeskelde on the 26th of
August, in consequence of the enemy collecting a large force at the
town of _Kioge_ and its vicinity, for the purpose of being thrown
into _Copenhagen_, which was at this time invested by the British
army.
On the 29th of August, the division under Major-General Sir Arthur
Wellesley advanced to attack the Danes in their position. The
NINETY-SECOND regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Alexander
Napier, was appointed to lead the infantry against the enemy’s camp,
in which the regiment charged him, driving him out of it, and through
the town of Kioge, with the loss of his artillery. The regiment had
two rank and file killed, and one wounded.
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