+-------------------------------+---------+--------------------------+ | |Officers.| Men. | | Regiments. |---------+-------+---------+--------+ | | Killed. |Killed.| Wounded.| Died of| | | | | | Wounds.| +-------------------------------+---------+-------+---------+--------+ |Foot Guards | - | 2 | 19 | 2 | |Royal Artillery | 1 | 11 | 16 | 2 | |Pearce’s, 5th Foot | - | 4 | 9 | - | |Lord Mark Kerr’s, 13th ditto | - | 7 | 26 | 3 | |Clayton’s, 14th ditto | - | 7 | 13 | 5 | |Egerton’s, 20th ditto | 1 | 8 | 12 | 8 | |Middleton’s, 25th ditto | 1 | 3 | 14 | - | |Anstruther’s, 26th ditto | - | 6 | 29 | 3 | |Disney’s, 29th ditto | - | 2 | 12 | - | |Bissett’s, 30th ditto | - | 8 | 15 | 4 | |Hayes’s, 34th ditto | - | 2 | 16 | 2 | |Newton’s, 39th ditto | - | 6 | 4 | 4 | |Detachment from the regiments }| | | | | | at Minorca, under }| - | 6 | 17 | 1 | | Colonel Cosby, 18th Foot }| | | | | +-------------------------------+---------+-------+---------+--------+ | Total | 3 | 72 | 202 | 34 | +-------------------------------+---------+-------+---------+--------+ [11] The numbers of the two armies are taken from the _Life of Robert Lord Clive_, by Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., in which is published a letter from Lieut.-Colonel Clive to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, containing an account of the battle of Plassey, and of the loss sustained in killed and wounded. [12] Topasses were black infantry, descended from Portuguese who had married natives, and were so named because they wore hats. [13] These distinctions having, in after years, been discontinued, His Majesty King William IV., on the 17th of November 1835, was graciously pleased to authorise their being resumed. A handsome silver-mounted drum-major’s cane (now in possession of the regiment) was presented to the THIRTY-NINTH by the Nabob of Arcot, with the following device and inscription thereon:--DEVICE: _an Elephant_, with motto “_Primus in Indis_,” PLASSEY, 1757:--INSCRIPTION: Nabob of Bengal overturned by the 39th Regiment and the Company’s troops, _5th February 1757_.