Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Herefordshire Light Infantry -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 36th -- History
The killed and wounded of the THIRTY-SIXTH were one hundred and
fifty-three, of all ranks, out of two hundred and fifty; namely,
Ensign James Cromie, three serjeants and thirty-five rank and
file killed, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel William Cross, Brevet Major
William Campbell, Lieutenants James Prendergast, Thomas L’Estrange,
Peter Joseph Bone, William Henry Robertson, and Edward Lewis,
Ensigns Thomas M. Taylor, and James McCabe, eight serjeants, and
ninety-seven rank and file wounded.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Cross was so severely wounded as to oblige
him to be carried off the field, and the command of the battalion
devolved upon Major Martin Leggatt.
In approbation of the services of Lieut.-Colonel Cross at the
battles of the Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse, His Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and behalf of His Majesty,
was graciously pleased to confer upon that officer a cross, and
to nominate him a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath; His Royal Highness was likewise pleased to bestow on
Major Leggatt a medal for the battle of Toulouse.
The THIRTY-SIXTH subsequently received the Royal Authority to bear
the word “TOULOUSE” on the regimental colour and appointments, in
commemoration of the distinguished gallantry of the first battalion
in that battle; also the word “PENINSULA” in testimony of its
services in Spain and Portugal.
During the night of the 11th of April the French troops evacuated
_Toulouse_, and a white flag was hoisted. On the following day the
Marquis of Wellington entered the city, amidst the acclamations
of the inhabitants. In the course of the afternoon of the 12th of
April intelligence was received of the abdication of Napoleon,
and had not the express been delayed on the journey by the French
police, the sacrifice of many valuable lives would have been
prevented.
A disbelief in the truth of this intelligence occasioned much
unnecessary bloodshed at _Bayonne_, the garrison of which made
a desperate _sortie_ on the 14th of April, and Lieut.-General
Sir John Hope (afterwards Earl of Hopetoun) was taken prisoner,
Major-General Andrew Hay was killed, and Major-General Stopford was
wounded. This was the last action of the Peninsular war.
A Treaty of Peace was established between Great Britain and France;
Louis XVIII. was restored to the throne of his ancestors; and
Napoleon Bonaparte was permitted to reside at Elba, the sovereignty
of that island having been conceded to him by the allied powers.
The first battalion of the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment embarked at
Pouillac on the 22d of June 1814, and arrived at the Cove of Cork
on the 11th of the following month, and subsequently proceeded to
Kilkenny.
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