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Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846Cannon, Richard

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Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846

Name: Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Inniskilling Dragoons, 6th

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CHOLMONDELEY, third son of George, second
Earl of Cholmondeley, was appointed guidon and major in the
first troop (now first regiment) of life guards on the 12th of
May, 1725; in 1731 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and
lieutenant-colonel in the third troop of life guards; and in
January, 1741, King George II. conferred upon him the colonelcy
of a newly-raised regiment, then numbered the fifty-ninth, and
now the forty-eighth foot; from which he was removed in December,
1742, to the colonelcy of the thirty-fourth regiment. In 1744 he
proceeded with his regiment to Flanders, and served the campaign
of that year with the allied army under Field-Marshal Wade. He was
at the battle of Fontenoy on the 11th of May, 1745, and on the
8th of the following month he was appointed brigadier-general, in
which capacity he served the remainder of that campaign. On the
breaking out of the rebellion in Scotland, in the winter of the
same year, he was ordered to England, with a brigade of infantry,
and after his arrival he was sent to Chester to take command of
two battalions which had recently arrived from Ireland, with which
he joined the army commanded by Field-Marshal Wade, in Yorkshire.
After the flight of the rebels from Derby, he was detached to
Scotland, where he served under Lieutenant-General Hawley, and
signalized himself in a most conspicuous manner at the battle of
Falkirk, on the 17th of January, 1746; but the excessive fatigue he
underwent, with continued exposure to severe weather, deprived him
of the use of his limbs for some time. On the 23rd of September,
1747, he was promoted to the rank of major-general; on the 24th of
July, 1749, he was removed to the twelfth dragoons; and in November
of the same year to the third Irish horse, now sixth dragoon
guards. He was again removed on the 16th of January, 1750, to the
SIXTH dragoons; and on the 2nd of May, 1754, he was promoted to the
rank of lieutenant-general. He was many years lieutenant-governor
of Chester; and died on the 13th of October, 1775.


EDWARD HARVEY.

_Appointed 18th October, 1775._

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Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846Cannon, Richard

History

Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Inniskilling Dragoons, 6th

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CHOLMONDELEY, third son of George, second
Earl of Cholmondeley, was appointed guidon and major in the
first troop (now first regiment) of life guards on the 12th of
May, 1725; in 1731 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and
lieutenant-colonel in the third troop of life guards; and in
January, 1741, King George II. conferred upon him the colonelcy
of a newly-raised regiment, then numbered the fifty-ninth, and
now the forty-eighth foot; from which he was removed in December,
1742, to the colonelcy of the thirty-fourth regiment. In 1744 he
proceeded with his regiment to Flanders, and served the campaign
of that year with the allied army under Field-Marshal Wade. He was
at the battle of Fontenoy on the 11th of May, 1745, and on the
8th of the following month he was appointed brigadier-general, in
which capacity he served the remainder of that campaign. On the
breaking out of the rebellion in Scotland, in the winter of the
same year, he was ordered to England, with a brigade of infantry,
and after his arrival he was sent to Chester to take command of
two battalions which had recently arrived from Ireland, with which
he joined the army commanded by Field-Marshal Wade, in Yorkshire.
After the flight of the rebels from Derby, he was detached to
Scotland, where he served under Lieutenant-General Hawley, and
signalized himself in a most conspicuous manner at the battle of
Falkirk, on the 17th of January, 1746; but the excessive fatigue he
underwent, with continued exposure to severe weather, deprived him
of the use of his limbs for some time. On the 23rd of September,
1747, he was promoted to the rank of major-general; on the 24th of
July, 1749, he was removed to the twelfth dragoons; and in November
of the same year to the third Irish horse, now sixth dragoon
guards. He was again removed on the 16th of January, 1750, to the
SIXTH dragoons; and on the 2nd of May, 1754, he was promoted to the
rank of lieutenant-general. He was many years lieutenant-governor
of Chester; and died on the 13th of October, 1775.


EDWARD HARVEY.

_Appointed 18th October, 1775._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846

Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846

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