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
Francis Weller.
William Belford.
John Beaver Brown (_wounded 13th March, 1801_).
A. W. Young.
John O’Neil Bayley.
Arthur Wilkinson.
Francis Wm. Schyler.
John Staunton (_Captain, Lieut. and Captain_.)
_Lieutenants._
Thomas Serle.
Cæsar Colclough.
James Wood.
George Innes.
Alexander Patterson.
George Thornhill.
Hyacinth Daly.
Richard Butler Handcock (_wounded 13th March, 1801_.)
John Peck (_wounded 13th March, 1801_).
James Blake.
James Kearnay Browne.
Richard Huson.
William Trench.
Patrick Hering.
George O’Malley.
Eyre Trench.
John Dunn.
Richard M. West.
_Ensigns._
Soden Davys.
Brinley Purefoy.
James Galbreath.
Edward Sheridan.
Peter Shansey.
John Richardson.
Richard Church.
James Fitzsimons O’Reilly.
John Custice.
Peter Shansey.
_Adjutant_, Geo. Parson.--_Quarter-Master_, Edw. Murray.
_Surgeon_, Wm. Patton.--_Assistant Surgeons_, Jas. McGuire,
and Francis Coul.
The British army in Egypt had equalled the most sanguine
expectations of their country; and when ages have passed, the
story of the gallant achievements of the soldiers who fought under
the brave Sir Ralph Abercromby will stimulate to heroic actions
the future warriors of the British empire. The English army had
proved to the world that French soldiers were not invincible; the
expectations of Buonaparte had been defeated, and negociations for
a treaty of peace were commenced.
[Sidenote: 1802]
The THIRTEENTH regiment remained in Egypt until the 13th of
January, 1802, when it embarked from Alexandria for the island of
Malta, where it arrived on the 2nd of March.
The regiment was stationed at Malta twelve months, during which
time a treaty of peace was concluded at Amiens, on the 25th March,
1802, in which the British government agreed to give up Malta; but
the conduct of Buonaparte, then First Consul of France, was marked
by so many acts of aggression, that the government considered
itself justified in refusing to deliver up the island.
[Sidenote: 1803]
In March, 1803, when hostilities were on the eve of re-commencing,
the regiment embarked for Gibraltar, to relieve the second
battalion of the royal regiment of foot from garrison duty at that
fortress.
[Sidenote: 1804]
On the decease of General Ainslie, in 1804, King George III.,
conferred the colonelcy of the THIRTEENTH foot on Lieut.-General
Sir Alexander Campbell, (who had commanded the seventh West India
regiment which was disbanded in 1802,) by commission dated the 11th
of July, 1804.
While the regiment was stationed at Gibraltar, a fever of a very
fatal character broke out in the town and garrison, and during the
months of September, October, and November, the regiment lost four
officers, and one hundred and twenty-six non-commissioned officers
and private soldiers.
[Sidenote: 1805]
[Sidenote: 1806]
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