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
Major-General Sir Sidney Beckwith inspected the NINETY-SECOND
regiment on the 28th of April, 1818, who issued a very complimentary
order regarding its appearance.
On the 17th of June, the regiment commenced its march in two
divisions for Castlebar, where the head-quarters arrived on the 28th,
having about twenty detachments in various places.
The regiment was inspected on the 14th of October by Major-General
Buller, who expressed his approbation of its appearance.
On the 4th of November, orders were received for the regiment to be
held in readiness for embarkation at Cork, for Jamaica.
[Sidenote: 1819]
The regiment marched on the 8th of January, 1819, for Fermoy, where
it arrived on the 20th of that month. On the 12th of April, it
marched from Fermoy to Middleton barracks, and on the following day
it embarked, at the Cove of Cork, on board the “Chapman,” “Nautilus,”
and “Ocean” transports. The effective strength consisted of
thirty-one serjeants, twenty-one drummers, and six hundred and three
rank and file.
On the 14th of April, Major-General Benjamin Gordon expressed “his
marked approbation of the steadiness and very soldier-like appearance
of the regiment, and the regularity with which its embarkation was
conducted yesterday.”
The regiment sailed on the 16th of April, and arrived at Jamaica on
the 2nd of June. It disembarked at Kingston on the 4th of that month,
and proceeded to Up-Park Camp, followed by the whole population of
the town and its vicinity, who crowded from all quarters to witness
so novel a sight as a Highland regiment in Jamaica.
Shortly after its arrival in Jamaica, the regiment was attacked by
yellow fever in its most virulent form, and three companies, under
the command of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Blainey, marched, on the 5th of
July, to Stony Hill barracks.
Such was the mortality and sickness in the regiment, that it was,
in August, in a manner ordered to be dispersed. Another company
marched on the 26th of August to Stony Hill, and a part of one to
the Apostles’ battery. On the 28th of August a strong detachment,
chiefly composed of convalescents, embarked on board the “Serapis”
guard-ship, then at anchor off Port Royal.
Major Archibald Ferrier died at Up-Park Camp on the 22nd of
September, and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Blainey having died
on the 28th of August at Stony Hill, Brevet-Major Peter Wilkie
assumed the command of the regiment, and on the 23rd of September
removed with the head-quarters on board the “Serapis.” Nothing can
depict the state of the regiment better than the following letter
from Brevet-Major Wilkie to Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, Assistant
Adjutant-General at Jamaica:—
“H. M. Ship Serapis,
“25th September, 1819.
“SIR,
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