Historical Record of the Seventieth, or, the Surrey Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Seventieth, or, the Surrey Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 70th (Surrey)
_Appointed 10th July, 1760_.
CYRUS TRAPAUD, descended from a family of distinction in France,
was related to Marshal Turenne and other noblemen in that country:
his father was a Protestant, and was forced by persecution to seek
an asylum in England. Cyrus Trapaud entered the British army, and
was many years an officer in the Buffs. He accompanied his regiment
to the Netherlands in 1742, served at the battle of Dettingen
in 1743, and of Fontenoy in 1745. Returning to Great Britain
in the same year, he served, in 1746, at the battles of Falkirk
and Culloden. In 1747 he again proceeded to the Netherlands, and
served at the battle of Val. On the 3rd of February, 1750, he
was appointed lieut.-colonel of the Buffs, and commanded that
regiment in the expedition to the coast of France, in 1757. He
served at the attack of Martinique, and commanded a brigade at the
reduction of Guadaloupe in 1759. In 1760 he was rewarded with the
colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment; he was promoted to the rank
of major-general in 1762, and to that of lieut.-general in 1772;
was removed to the Fifty-second regiment in 1778, and promoted
to the rank of general in 1783. He was conspicuous for courage,
and for the exact performance of every duty both of public and
private life, united with a kind and gentlemanly deportment, which
procured him the esteem of all who knew him. He lived to be the
senior general in the army, and dying on the 3rd of May, 1801, was
buried with military honors at Chelsea, many distinguished persons
attending his funeral.
WILLIAM TRYON,
_Appointed 14th May, 1778_.
This Officer served many years in the First Foot Guards, in which
corps he was promoted to the rank of captain and lieut.-colonel
in 1758; in May, 1772, he was advanced to the rank of colonel,
and in 1776 he was nominated major in his regiment. He was
appointed governor of the state of North Carolina, where he
evinced great zeal and ability in suppressing the rising seeds of
insurrection, and he conciliated the loyal British subjects. Being
afterwards called to the government of New York, his abilities
were conspicuously displayed there during the American War of
Independence. He raised a body of Provincials for the King’s
service, and evinced gallantry in several military services,
particularly in the expedition to Danbury in the spring of 1777.
He was promoted to the rank of major-general in the same year, and
to that of lieut.-general in 1782. In 1778 he was rewarded with
the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment, and was removed to the
Twenty-ninth in 1783. He died in 1788.
JOHN, EARL OF SUFFOLK,
_Appointed 16th August, 1783_.
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