Historical record of the Thirteenth, First Somerset, or the Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1848.Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Thirteenth, First Somerset, or the Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1848.
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Somerset Light Infantry
1767 Hon. James Murray 123
1789 George Ainslie --
1804 Alexander Campbell 124
1813 Edward Morrison 125
1843 Robert Henry Sale 126
1846 William Maynard Gomm 128
PLATES.
Page.
Colours of the Regiment _to face_ 1
Costume of the Regiment ” 62
Standards captured from the Affghans in the
Action at Jellalabad on the 7th April, 1842 ” 116
[Illustration: THIRTEENTH, PRINCE ALBERT’S REGIMENT OF LIGHT INFANTRY.
QUEEN’S COLOR.
REGIMENTAL COLOR.
FOR CANNON’S MILITARY RECORDS.]
HISTORICAL RECORD
OF
THE THIRTEENTH,
FIRST SOMERSETSHIRE REGIMENT;
OR
PRINCE ALBERT’S REGIMENT OF LIGHT INFANTRY.
[Sidenote: 1685]
When JAMES DUKE OF MONMOUTH denounced the character and pretensions
of King James II., asserted his own claims to the throne, and
organized a military force to establish his authority, the small
regular army then in England was not deemed sufficiently numerous
for the protection of the crown and kingdom against lawless
usurpation, and a number of additional corps of cavalry and
infantry were embodied. Among the noblemen who stood forward in
support of the throne at this important juncture, was THEOPHILUS,
EARL OF HUNTINGDON, who was appointed colonel of one of the
regiments ordered to be raised,--now THIRTEENTH LIGHT INFANTRY,--by
commission dated the 20th of June, 1685.
This regiment was raised in the southern counties of England,
and its general rendezvous was at Buckingham, where the Earl of
Huntingdon established his head-quarters; it consisted of ten
companies, which were raised by Colonel the Earl of Huntingdon,
Lieut-Colonel Francis Villiers, Major Charles Morgan, Captains
Watson Dixey, Thomas Condon, Thomas Skipworth,--Hildibran, John
Tidcomb, Bryan Turner, and Charles Hatton; and a number of loyal
men coming readily forward to enrol themselves under the colours of
the regiment, it was speedily formed and quartered at Buckingham
and Aylesbury. In the middle of July it was employed to guard
prisoners taken after the overthrow of the rebel army at Sedgemoor.
The rebellion being suppressed, and the Duke of Monmouth beheaded,
the King assembled many of the newly-raised corps on Hounslow
Heath, where the Earl of Huntingdon’s regiment encamped in the
beginning of August: it was reviewed on the Heath by His Majesty;
the officers and soldiers received the expression of the King’s
royal approbation of the ready manner in which they had come
forward to support the throne at the hour of danger, and they
afterwards marched into garrison at Hull.
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