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Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848 — John Shaqi

Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848Cannon, Richard

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Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848

Name: Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 16th (Bedfordshire)

CHARLES GREEN entered the army as gentleman cadet in the Royal
Artillery in 1760; in 1765 he was appointed ensign in the
thirty-first regiment, which corps he joined at Pensacola in 1766.
In 1768 he was employed on a particular service at New Orleans
and on the Mississippi river; and in 1771 he served as engineer
at the Bahama Islands. He joined his regiment at St. Vincent in
1772, and served against the Caribs; but returned to England in
1773, and was promoted to a lieutenancy; and in 1774 to captain in
the thirty-first regiment. Proceeding to America in 1776, he was
nominated aide-de-camp to Major-General Phillips, and served the
campaign of 1777 in that capacity. He was wounded at Freeman's Farm
in September of that year, and returning to England in 1778, he
was appointed aide-de-camp to Lieut.-General Sir Adolphus Oughton,
commander-in-chief in North Britain. Having joined the thirty-first
in Canada, in May, 1780, he was soon afterwards nominated major
of brigade to the Montreal district. In 1783 he obtained the rank
of major in the army, and the majority of his regiment in 1788.
On the breaking out of the war in 1793, he was promoted to the
lieut.-colonelcy of a battalion formed of independent companies,
and in 1794 he exchanged to the thirtieth regiment. After serving
two years at Corsica, he was nominated civil governor of Grenada,
and was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1797. His eye-sight
having been injured by the climate of Grenada, he returned to
England in 1801: in 1803 he was appointed brigadier-general on
the Staff of Ireland, and was afterwards removed to England; he
was knighted in May of this year, and promoted to the rank of
major-general in September. In 1804 he was nominated colonel of
the York Light Infantry Volunteers; and afterwards proceeding to
the West Indies, he assembled an armament and captured the Dutch
Settlements of Surinam in South America. He remained at Surinam
a year, and returned to England in 1805: in 1807 he was advanced
to the dignity of a BARONET, and in 1808 appointed colonel of the
SIXTEENTH regiment. He commanded the garrison of Malta some time;
was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general in 1809; removed to
the thirty-seventh regiment in 1814; and advanced to the rank of
general in 1819. He died in 1831.


SIR GEORGE PREVOST, BART.,

_Appointed 17th February, 1814_.

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Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848

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