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Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847 — John Shaqi

Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847Cannon, Richard

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Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847

Name: Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot

THE HONOURABLE JAMES O'HARA entered the army on the 15th of March,
1703, as lieutenant in the royal regiment of fusiliers, commanded
by his father. He proceeded with his regiment to the relief of
Barcelona in 1706; in the following year he served on the staff
of the army in Spain, and was wounded at the battle of Almanza,
where he was instrumental in saving the Earl of Galway's life.
He afterwards served in Catalonia, and in the island of Minorca,
and in 1713, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the seventh
royal fusiliers, in succession to his father, at whose decease,
in 1733, he succeeded to the dignity of BARON TYRAWLEY. The rank
of brigadier-general was conferred on his lordship, in 1735, that
of major-general, in July 1739, and in the following month he was
removed from the royal fusiliers to the fifth horse, now fourth
dragoon guards. In March, 1743, he was promoted to the rank of
lieut.-general, and in April of the same year, he obtained the
colonelcy of the second troop of horse grenadier-guards, from which
he was removed, in 1745, to the third troop of life-guards, which
gave him the privilege of taking the court duty of gold-stick.
King George II. resolved to disband the third and fourth troops of
life-guards, in 1746, and LORD TYRAWLEY was removed to the TENTH
foot; he was again removed, in 1749, to the fourteenth dragoons;
in 1752 to the third dragoons, and in 1755, to the second regiment
of foot-guards. He was appointed governor of Portsmouth, in 1759,
and was promoted to the rank of general in 1761. LORD TYRAWLEY
held the appointment of governor of Minorca for several years, and
was employed as envoy and ambassador to the courts of Portugal and
Russia. He died in 1773.


EDWARD POLE.

_Appointed 10th August, 1749._

This officer was appointed cornet in the Scots Greys on the 23rd of
January, 1709, and he served with his regiment in the Netherlands
during the remainder of the war, which was terminated by the treaty
of Utrecht, in 1713. He was at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709,
and was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland,
in 1715 and 1716. He was several years major in the twenty-third
foot; in 1739 he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the
twelfth dragoons, and in 1749, King George II. rewarded his long
and faithful services with the colonelcy of the TENTH foot. He
was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1757, and to that of
lieut.-general in 1759. His decease occurred in December 1762.


EDWARD SANDFORD.

_Appointed 14th January, 1763._

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Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847

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