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
1796 Embarked for the East Indies 56
1797 Arrived at Madras --
---- Embarked for Manilla --
---- Returned to Madras 57
1798 Proceeded to Tanjore in the Carnatic 58
1799 Engaged in operations against Tippoo Saib 59
---- Advanced against Seringapatam 60
---- Action near Malleville --
---- Storming and Capture of Seringapatam 65
---- Received the Royal Authority to bear the word
"SERINGAPATAM" on the colours and appointments 70
1800 Proceeded against the tribes of the Wynaad country 71
1801 Returned to Seringapatam --
---- Proceeded to Trichinopoly --
1802 Two companies returned from Java 72
---- Three companies employed against the
Polygans --
1805 Marched to Seringapatam --
1807 Proceeded to Cannanore --
1808 Embarked for the port of Coulan in the Travancore
country 73
---- Serjeant Tilsey and 33 men destroyed
by the Natives 74
---- Operations in the Travancore country 75
---- Returned to Seringapatam 81
---- Proceeded to Trichinopoly --
1810 Flank companies proceeded against the Isle of Bourbon 81
---- Embarked against the Mauritius, or the Isle of France 82
---- Capture of the Mauritius 83
1811 Stationed at the Mauritius 85
1812 Second Battalion added to the Establishment and
embarked for Ireland --
1813 First Battalion proceeded from the Mauritius to the
Isle of Bourbon --
1814 Island of Bourbon restored to France 86
1815 Proceeded to the Island of Mauritius on its being
retained as a Colony of Great Britain --
1815 Second Battalion returned to England, and embarked
for Flanders 86
---- ---------------- advanced to Paris --
1816 ---------------- returned to England, and proceeded
to Ireland 87
---- First Battalion continued at the Mauritius --
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