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 foregoing pages contain a detail of the services of the
NINETY-SECOND HIGHLAND REGIMENT for fifty-eight years from the period
of its formation in 1793, during which it has shared in the honors
acquired in many of the arduous and distinguished actions, which have
largely increased the fame of the British army.
The distinctions, which it has gained on active foreign service, are
duly attested by the inscriptions on the regimental colour, and the
national credit of the regiment has been maintained by its correct
and orderly conduct, and its attention to the rules of discipline,
in every station at which it has been employed, whether at home or
abroad.
1851.
FOOTNOTES:
[6] The ninety-first, ninety-second, ninety-third, ninety-fourth,
ninety-fifth, ninety-sixth, ninety-seventh, and ninety-ninth
regiments, which were directed to be raised at the commencement of
the war with France in 1793, were afterwards disbanded, so that the
_ninety-eighth_ was numbered the _ninety-first_, and the _Hundredth_
became the NINETY-SECOND regiment.
[7] Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B., was promoted to the
local rank of General on the Continent of Europe, on the 13th of
August 1799.
[8] Colonel the Marquis of Huntly commanded the regiment in
this memorable charge, which began and decided the action at
Egmont-op-Zee: all the rest was a pursuit. The Marquis of Huntly,
and Major-General (afterwards Sir John) Moore, were wounded, and the
command of the regiment devolved upon Lieut.-Colonel Erskine.
Major-General Moore was carried to the surgeon by two soldiers of the
regiment; and a few years afterwards, when writing for a drawing of
the uniform, for the purpose of having a soldier of the NINETY-SECOND
as one of the supporters to his coat of arms, on being made a
Knight of the Bath, he mentioned the circumstance of their having
remarked—“There is the General, we must take him to the doctor:” and
then added, “We can do no more; we must join the lads, for every
man is wanted!!” Major-General Moore, on his recovery, inquired for
those men in order to reward them, and offered twenty pounds, but
no one claimed it; and he remarked, that “it was a noble trait of
the regiment, that no men in its ranks came forward to personate the
parties, or to claim the reward.”—It was, therefore, supposed they
were killed.
It may be observed, that this is one of the few instances on record
of _crossing bayonets_ by large bodies. Even the supernumerary rank
of the NINETY-SECOND on this occasion was bayoneted; among the number
Lieutenant McCardy was killed, and Lieutenant Donald McDonald (who
afterwards succeeded to the command of the regiment at Waterloo)
received three bayonet wounds.
[9] List of regiments which served in Egypt in 1801, is inserted in
the Appendix, page 139.
[10] _Vide_ General Order, dated Horse Guards, 16th of May, 1801, and
List of regiments employed in Egypt, inserted in pages 137, &c. of
the Appendix.
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