Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Infantry. 6th Regiment (Royal 1st Warwickshire)
Harvey's Horse, now 2nd Dragoon Guards 227
Carpenter's Dragoons, now 3rd Light Dragoons } 292
Essex's ditto, now 4th Light Dragoons }
Killegrew's ditto, now 8th Hussars 51
Pearce's ditto, disbanded 273
Peterborough's ditto, ditto 303
Guiscard's ditto, ditto 228
Foot Guards 400
Portmore's, now 2nd Foot 462
Southwell's, 6th ditto 505
Stewart's, 9th ditto 467
Hill's, 11th ditto 472
Blood's, 17th ditto 461
Mordaunt's, 28th ditto 532
Wade's, 33rd ditto 458
Gore's, 35th ditto 616
Alnutts', 36th ditto 412
Montjoy's, disbanded 508
Macartney's, ditto 494
Bretton's, ditto 428
John Caulfield's, ditto 470
Lord Mark Kerr's, ditto 419
Count Nassau's, ditto 422
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Total 8910
_In Garrison and Quarters._
Royal Dragoons, at Culera 302
Royal Fusiliers, } at Girone 1200
Two Battalions Marines, }
Hotham's, }
Sybourg's, } at Alicant 1200
Blossett's, }
One Battalion Marines, }
Eliott's, } at Gibraltar 800
Watkin's, }
Detachments at Denia 200
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Total 3702
[28] State of Europe, for June, 1708.
[29] Journal of the War in Spain, by a Chaplain of the army.
[30] See Lieut.-General Carpenter's letter, published in the Daily
Courant of the 16th of September, 1710.
[31] Tradition has connected the badge of the ANTELOPE, borne on
the colours of the regiment, with its services in Spain; and as the
SIXTH captured several colours at SARAGOSSA, which colours were
taken to England by their Colonel, THOMAS HARRISON, and presented
to Queen Anne, it is not improbable but that an ANTELOPE was on
one of the captured colours, and that Colonel HARRISON obtained
her Majesty's permission for his regiment to bear the badge of an
ANTELOPE in commemoration of the event. No documentary evidence
has, however, been met with to substantiate the tradition.
[32] The Complete History of Europe, vol. 22, pages 111 and 152.
[33] Martial Recorder.
[34] The following return of the strength of the King's forces at
Preston-pans was published in Douglas' History of the Rebellion:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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