HUGH MACKAY GORDON entered the army during the American war, and was many years an officer of the SIXTEENTH regiment, with which corps he served in Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia, also in Nova Scotia and the West Indies. He was promoted captain in the SIXTEENTH in 1788, major in the army in 1796; lieut.-colonel in the army in 1798; and obtained a majority in his regiment in 1799; at the peace of Amiens he was placed on half-pay. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1811, and was nominated colonel of the York Chasseurs in 1814; in 1816 he was removed to the SIXTEENTH, with which regiment he had previously performed much service. In 1821 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general. He died in 1823. WILLIAM CARR, VISCOUNT BERESFORD, G.C.B., G.C.H., _Appointed 15th March, 1823_. LONDON:--Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street, For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. FOOTNOTES: [6] The date when the facings were changed from white to yellow has not been ascertained. [7] Beatson's Naval and Military Memoirs. [8] Lieutenant-General John Skinner entered the army as an Ensign in the SIXTEENTH regiment of foot on the 4th of September, 1772, and rose to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel of that regiment on the 11th of April, 1805: he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army on the 25th of April, 1808: after performing the duties of a regimental officer, in the various situations of service, from 1772, to 1811, he was advanced to the rank of Major-General on the 4th of June, 1811, and was appointed to the staff of the army in the West Indies, on which he continued to serve until the 24th of March, 1816: he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General on the 19th of July, 1821: he died in 1827, after a continued and faithful service of forty-four years. [9] Francis Godfrey was the son of Charles Godfrey, Esq., who married Miss Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II., and mother of James Duke of Berwick. Miss Arabella Churchill was the sister of John Lord Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, foot-guards, foot guards; hand-grenades, hand grenades; piquets. Pg 23, '[Sidenote: 1783]' inserted. Pg 26, 'and assume the' replaced by 'and assumed the'. Pg 32, 'at Chinsurha' replaced by 'at Chinsurah'. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, The Bedfordshire Regiment of Fo, by Richard Cannon