[49] The Corps, which had been formed in 1737 by Colonel James Oglethorpe for service in Georgia and South Carolina, was disbanded in 1749. It had not been ranked in the number of regiments of infantry in the Official Records of the Army, although in some publications of that period it was numbered the _Forty-second_, regiment, according to its seniority and the date of its formation. [50] A _Fourth Division_ was formed at Woolwich by Order in Council dated 15th August, 1805. * * * * * NOTE.--The Compiler of these Records feels it a duty to acknowledge, that he has derived a principal portion of the means of drawing up the details of the services of the Marines from “_An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps_,” _published in 1803_, “_by Captain Alexander Gillespie, who served as an Officer in that Corps upwards of twenty-four years_;” a work of considerable merit and research, which reflects great honor on its author, as an excellent scholar and a most zealous officer. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE The second part of the book, the ‘Historical Record of the Marine Corps’, used its own page numbering. This has not been changed. The column headers for the Table on page 224 have been adjusted to be more readable, with no loss or change of text. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all other misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg 54: ‘Lord Malmsbury’ replaced by ‘Lord Malmesbury’. Pg 80: ‘Saugor Point’ replaced by ‘Sangor Point’. Pg 81: ‘could befal a’ replaced by ‘could befall a’. Pg 96: ‘which befel your’ replaced by ‘which befell your’. Pg 128: Illustration caption: ‘BATTLE OF FEROZSHAH.’ replaced by ‘BATTLE OF FEROZESHAH.’. Pg 131: A new paragraph was started after ‘the action states:--’. Pg 149: missing anchor for Footnote [34] inserted after ‘was shot.’ Pg 183: ‘who expressed hi ’ replaced by ‘who expressed his’. Pg 199: ‘THIRY-FIRST’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-FIRST’. Pg 217: ‘from th fifteenth’ replaced by ‘from the fifteenth’. Pg 228: ‘was despached to’ replaced by ‘was despatched to’. Pg 229: ‘victory of Tezeeu’ replaced by ‘victory of Tezeen’. Pg 229: ‘he comanded five’ replaced by ‘he commanded five’.