Historical Record of the Twenty-first Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1849Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Twenty-first Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1849
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Royal Scots Fusiliers
---- Second battalion embarked from Scotland for
Ireland --
1807 Hostilities with the Grand Seignior --
---- First battalion embarked from Sicily on an expedition
to Egypt; landed at Alexandria,
and marched to Aboukir --
---- Peace with the Turks being restored, the battalion
returned to Sicily --
1809 Flank companies engaged in the capture of the
Islands of _Ischia_ and _Procida_, in the Gulf of
Naples 35
---- Attempt made to reduce the Castle of _Scylla_ --
1810 The invasion of Sicily by Murat, King of Naples,
defeated 36
1811 Second battalion embarked from Ireland for
Scotland 37
1814 First battalion embarked for Italy, with a force
under Lieut.-General Lord William Bentinck --
---- Landed at _Leghorn_, marched to _Pisa_, thence to
Lucca --
1814 Advanced to _Genoa_, and took possession of that
town and fortress 37
---- Second battalion embarked from Scotland for
Holland 38
---- Employed in the attack of Bergen-op-Zoom --
---- Hostilities on the Continent ceased --
---- Abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte --
---- Second battalion embarked for England, and
returned to Scotland --
---- First battalion embarked for service in America 39
---- Defeated the American Army at _Bladensburg_ --
---- Advanced to _Washington_, captured the city,
and destroyed the arsenal, docks, &c. 40
---- Marched back to St. Benedict --
---- Re-embarked and landed at North Point --
---- Advanced towards _Baltimore_, and engaged the
American troops --
---- Major-General Robert Ross killed, and the command
devolved on Colonel Brooke, 44th
regiment --
---- Attacked and defeated the American Army at
_Godly wood_ --
---- Colonel Paterson, 21st regiment, commanded a
brigade and commended in the public despatches 41
---- Attack on the town of Baltimore abandoned,
and the British troops re-embarked on board
the Fleet --
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