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
SIR JAMES WOOD served many years in the army of the States-General
of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. His first commission
was dated the 31st of December, 1688, and he rose to the rank of
brigadier-general in 1704, in which rank he was admitted into the
British service, in consequence of his reputation; and in 1727, he
was appointed colonel of the TWENTY-FIRST regiment. In 1735 he was
promoted to the rank of major-general. His decease occurred on the
18th of May, 1738.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
_Appointed 1st November, 1738._
JOHN CAMPBELL, of Mamore, was an officer in the army in the reign
of Queen Anne, and attained the rank of lieut.-colonel. During
the rebellion in 1715 and 1716, he was aide-de-camp to the Duke
of Argyle: and in June, 1737, he obtained the colonelcy of the
Thirty-ninth regiment, from which he was removed in the following
year to the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS. He commanded a brigade
at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743;--was appointed major-general
in the following year; and during the rebellion in 1745 and 1746,
he held a command in Scotland. He was advanced to the rank of
lieut.-general in 1747; removed from the Fusiliers to the Scots
Greys in 1752; and in 1761 he was appointed governor of Limerick;
and also succeeded to the title of Duke of Argyle. The Order of the
Thistle was conferred upon his Grace in 1765. He died in 1770.
WILLIAM, EARL OF PANMURE.
_Appointed 29th April, 1752._
WILLIAM MAULE, who had been several years an officer in the Scots
Foot Guards, and a Member of Parliament, was created a peer of
Ireland on the 6th of April, 1743, by the title of Earl of Panmure.
He served at the battle of Dettingen in the same year; also at the
battle of Fontenoy in 1745; and on the 1st of December, 1747, was
promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-fifth foot; from which he
was removed, in 1752, to the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS. The
rank of major-general was conferred upon his Lordship in 1755. In
the following year he was second in command at Gibraltar; and in
1758 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general. He was further
advanced to the rank of general in 1770; and obtained the colonelcy
of the Scots Greys in November of the same year. He died on the 4th
of January, 1782.
THE HONORABLE ALEXANDER MACKAY.
_Appointed 10th May, 1770._
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