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
[11] Lieut.-General Burrard was created a Baronet in November 1807.
[12] A list of the regiments employed in the expedition to
_Copenhagen_ it inserted in the Appendix, page 141.
[13] Vide General Orders of the 18th of January and 1st of February,
1809; also a list of regiments employed under Lieut.-General Sir John
Moore at Corunna, inserted in pages 142, &c., of the Appendix.
[14] At Almaraz on the 19th of May, 1812, the individual merit and
gallantry of Privates James Gall and John Somerville of the Grenadier
Company of the NINETY-SECOND regiment, were brought under the notice
of the Commander-in-Chief as having tended to forward, in a very
considerable degree, the object of Lord Hill upon Fort Ragusa: his
Lordship ordered two doubloons to be given to these soldiers on the
field, being the first men who leaped into the river.
[15] “The hill this carried was called the Englishmen’s Hill, not,
as some recent writers have supposed, in commemoration of a victory
gained by the Black Prince, but because of a disaster which there
befel a part of his army. His battle was fought between Navarrette
and Najera, many leagues from Vittoria, and beyond the Ebro; but
on this hill the two gallant knights, Sir Thomas and Sir William
Felton, took post with two hundred companions, and being surrounded
by Don Tello with six thousand, all died or were taken after a long,
desperate, and heroic resistance.”—(History of the Peninsular War, by
Major-General Sir William Napier, K.C.B.)
[16] On the 30th of September, 1815, His Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, was pleased to
grant the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, to Ewen Cameron, Esq., of Fassifern and Callart, in
the county of Argyll, and of Arthurstone, in the county of Angus,
to commemorate the services of his son, Colonel Cameron, of the
NINETY-SECOND regiment.
[17] Now Major-General McDonald, commanding the Kilkenny district in
Ireland.
[18] Referring to an expression of thanks and approbation from the
Lord Lieutenant to Lieut.-General the Right Honorable Sir John
Byng, K.C.B., and from him to the regiment, for the spontaneous
interference of some soldiers of the grenadier company in saving the
life of a police constable, and retaking a prisoner, who had been
rescued from him by a mob at Maryborough, on the 20th of May, 1830.
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