Historical Record of the Sixty-first, or the South Gloucestershire Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1844.Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Sixty-first, or the South Gloucestershire Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1844.
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 61st (South Gloucestershire) -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 61st -- History
---- ---- ---- the Forts of San Vincente, St. Cajetano,
and La Merced --
---- Battle of Salamanca 29
---- Siege of Burgos Castle 33
1813 Battle of the Pyrenees 35
---- Passage of the Nivelle 37
---- ---- ---- ---- Nive 39
1814 Blockade of Bayonne 40
---- Battle of Orthes --
---- ---- ---- Toulouse 41
---- Embarks for Ireland 45
---- Second Battalion disbanded 46
1816 Proceeds to England --
---- Embarks for Jamaica --
1822 Returns to England --
1824 Proceeds to Ireland --
1828 Embarks for Ceylon 47
1840 Returns to England 49
1843 Proceeds to Ireland 52
---- Conclusion 53
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.
1758 Granville Elliott 55
1759 George Gray --
1768 John Gore 56
1773 John Barlow --
1778 Staates Long Morriss 57
1800 Sir George Hewett, Bart., G.C.B. --
1840 Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B. 58
1844 Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K.C.B. --
APPENDIX.
1801 Lieut.-Colonel Barlow’s Journal of the March of a
Detachment from Cosseir to Kenè 59
1809 }
to } Casualties during the Peninsular War 67
1814 }
PLATE.
Colours, and Present Costume, to face page 9
[Illustration: SIXTY-FIRST (THE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE) REGIMENT OF
FOOT.]
[Illustration: SIXTY-FIRST (THE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE) REGIMENT OF
FOOT.]
HISTORICAL RECORD
OF THE
SIXTY-FIRST,
OR
THE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
OF
FOOT.
[Sidenote: 1755]
[Sidenote: 1756]
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