Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk, Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1847Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk, Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1847
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Suffolk Regiment
---- Royal Authority to bear the word "MINDEN" on the
colours and appointments 33
---- Entered cantonments at Osnaburg 34
1760 Arrived at Paderborn --
---- Encamped at Fritzlar 34
---- ----------- Kalle --
---- Marched to engage the French at Warbourg --
---- Went into quarters at Paderborn 35
1761 Advanced into Hesse --
---- Engaged at Kirch Denkern, &c. --
1762 ---------- Groebenstein and Wilhelmsthal 36
---- ---------- Lutterberg --
1762 Engaged at Homburg 37
---- ---------- the siege of Cassel --
1763 Peace of Fontainbleau --
---- Returned to England --
1764 Proceeded to Scotland --
1769 Embarked for Gibraltar 38
1779 Attack of Gibraltar by the Spaniards --
1780} {39
1781} Siege and Defence continued {to
1782} {47
1783 Returned to England 48
---- Styled the East Suffolk Regiment --
1784 Reviewed at Windsor by King George III. --
1788 Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey 49
1790 Embarked as Marines --
---- Returned to Portsmouth --
1791 Embarked for Ireland --
1793 Flank companies embarked for the West Indies --
1794 --------------- engaged at Martinico 50
---- -------------------------- St. Lucia --
---- -------------------------- Guadaloupe --
---- Battalion companies embarked for Flanders 51
---- Engaged at Werwick, and on the Lys --
---- ------- in the relief of Ypres 52
---- ------- near Boxtel 53
---- Retired beyond the river Maese 54
1795 Returned from Holland 55
---- Flank companies returned from the West Indies --
---- Embarked on an expedition for the coast of France --
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