Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 67th (South Hampshire)
In the spring of 1761 the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment formed part of
the force selected to proceed, under the command of Major-General
Studholme Hodgson, against _Belle-Isle_, a French island in the Bay
of Biscay, off the coast of Brittany. Major-General Hodgson had the
undermentioned officers and regiments placed under his orders, which
amounted to nearly nine thousand men:--
Major-General John Craufurd; Brigadier-Generals William Rufane,
Hamilton Lambert (afterwards Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH), Guy
Carleton, Honorable William Howe, Robert Douglas, and Philip
Jennings; _Deputy-Adjutant-General_ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart.; _Deputy-Quartermaster-General_
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Thomas.
REGIMENTS. COMMANDING OFFICERS. MEN.
16th Light Dragoons Lieut.-Col. Burgoyne 200
9th Foot " R. Phillips 800
19th ditto " R. Douglas 800
21st ditto " Edw. Maxwell 800
30th ditto " John Jennings 800
67th ditto " Thomas Shirley 800
69th ditto " Christopher Teesdale 800
76th ditto[7] " D. Erskine 1300
85th ditto, 1st Batt.[7] " Viscount Pulteney 700
90th ditto[7] " Hugh Morgan 500
97th ditto[7] Lieut.-Col. Commandant J. Stuart 600
98th ditto[7] " Major Purcell 600
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8,700
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