Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 22nd (Cheshire)
CHARLES O'HARA was appointed cornet in the third dragoons in
December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant and
captain in the second foot guards. He served in Portugal in 1762,
and performed the duties of quartermaster-general to the army under
Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. In 1769 he was promoted to the
rank of captain and lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment
in North America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the rank
of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot guards under
Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; distinguished himself at
the passage of the Catawba river on the 1st of February, 1781; and
was wounded at the battle of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782
he was nominated to the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment; was
removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was advanced
to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded the British
troops at Toulon, and was wounded and taken prisoner in an action
with the French republican troops on the 30th of November, 1793. His
services were rewarded with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar,
and in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded
that he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and
enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and
accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st of February,
1802.
DAVID DUNDAS.
_Appointed 2nd April, 1791._
DAVID DUNDAS was one of the most distinguished officers of the age
in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the principles of
military tactics. He commenced his military education at the age
of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, and at fifteen he assisted
in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he obtained a commission in the
Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 he proceeded with the expedition to
the coast of France as an assistant quartermaster-general; and in
the following year obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised
regiment of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth,
or King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany in 1760 and
1761; in the following summer he accompanied an expedition to Cuba,
as aide-de-camp to Major-General Eliott, and was actively employed in
the reduction of the Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in
his regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged by an
ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every branch of his
profession, he obtained permission to proceed to the Continent, to
observe the practice of the French and Austrian armies. In 1775 he
obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the twelfth light dragoons, joined
the regiment in Ireland shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the
appointment of quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was
removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now the
fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the Continent,
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