[19] CALPÉ, in the south of Spain, and ABYLA, on the opposite coast of Africa (about eighteen miles distant), were celebrated as the _Pillars of Hercules_; and, according to heathen mythology, these two mountains were united, until that hero separated them, and made a communication between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. CALPÉ received the present designation of Gibraltar from the Arabic “_Gib-el-Tarif_,” or “_Mountain of Tarif_,” being the spot where that Moorish chieftain landed on his invasion of Spain in the year 711. The device of the “_Castle and Key_,” the present arms of Gibraltar, was given by Henry IV., King of Castile, upon his capturing the place from the King of Granada in 1462, in allusion to its being considered as the key to the Mediterranean. [20] Major Henry Magan was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel of the THIRTY-NINTH regiment on the 17th of August 1794, in succession to Lieut.-Colonel Fremantle, deceased. [21] Return of the troops at _Guadeloupe_ on the 1st of September 1794: +------------------------------+-----------------------+ | | Rank and File. | | Corps. +-------+-------+-------+ | |Fit for| | | | | Duty. | Sick. | Total.| +------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+ |Grenadier battalion | 152 | 208 | 360 | |Light Infantry battalion | 33 | 382 | 415 | |35th regiment | 47 | 116 | 163 | |39th ditto | 24 | 284 | 308 | |43rd ditto | 23 | 176 | 199 | |56th ditto, three companies | 67 | -- | 67 | |65th ditto | 43 | 209 | 252 | | +-------+-------+-------+ | General total | 389 | 1,375 | 1,764 | +------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+ The _Grenadier_ and _Light Infantry_ battalions were composed of the flank companies of the 8th, 12th, 17th, 31st, 33rd, 34th, 38th, 40th, 44th, and 55th regiments. [22] In 1781 the colonies on the rivers Essequibo and Demerara were placed under the protection of Great Britain, but the French took temporary possession of the Dutch settlements in 1783, which in April 1796 surrendered to the British, as above narrated. By the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, these settlements were restored to the Dutch, but, upon the renewal of the war in the following year, were again taken by the British, since which period they have continued under the sway of Great Britain. [23] A List of the Regiments which received men raised under the _Army of Reserve_, and _Additional Force Acts_, in the years 1803 and 1804, is inserted in the Appendix, pp. 125 to 128. [24] See Appendix, pp. 125 to 128.