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
Lord Forbes was elected one of the representative peers of
Scotland, in 1806, and held that distinguished situation many
years. The colonelcy of the Third Garrison Battalion was conferred
upon his Lordship in 1806; he was removed to the Ninety-fourth
regiment in 1808, to the Fifty-fourth in 1809, and to the ROYAL
NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS in 1816: in 1819 he was promoted to the
rank of general. He died in 1843.
THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR FREDERICK ADAM, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
_Appointed 31st May, 1843._
APPENDIX.
_List of Battles, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign
of KING WILLIAM III., from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick in 1697._
Battle of Walcourt 25 August, 1689
---- ---- Fleurus 1 July, 1690
Mons surrendered to the French 10 April, 1691
Namur ditto ditto 20 June, 1692
Battle of Steenkirk 3 August, ----
Furnes and Dixmude captured -- Sept., ----
The French lines at D'Otignies forced 10 July, 1693
Battle of Landen 29 July, ----
Surrender of Huy 17 Sept., 1694
Attack on Fort Kenoque 9 June, 1695
Dixmude surrendered to the French 16 July, ----
Deinse surrendered to the French 21 July, 1695
Namur retaken by King William III. 25 July, ----
Citadel of Namur surrendered 5 Sept., ----
Treaty of Ryswick signed 11 Sept., 1697
_List of Sieges, Battles, &c., in the Netherlands and Germany,
during the Campaigns under the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, from 1702 to
1711._
Invested. Surrendered.
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