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)
JAMES HENRY CRAIG was appointed ensign in the thirtieth foot, in
1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in 1771 he was
promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, with which
corps he served several campaigns in America; and in 1777 he was
promoted to the majority, and in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of
the Eighty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1783, to
the sixteenth. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and
to that of major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the
colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to the rank of
lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth in 1804. He
commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, in 1805, with the local
rank of general, and the dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops
under his orders landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession
of the island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND
regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor of Upper and Lower
Canada, with the local rank of general in America; in 1809 he was
removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. He was also appointed
governor of Blackness Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812.
THE HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH.
_Appointed 18th September, 1809._
In 1778 the HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH was appointed cornet in the
eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was promoted to a lieutenancy
in the Eighty-seventh foot. He embarked for the West Indies, in
January, 1780, and served there, and in North America, until 1782,
when he returned to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain
in the second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain
and lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns of
1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness the Duke of
York, and shared in the several actions in which the foot guards
distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was promoted to the rank of
colonel, and in 1799 he commanded the first battalion of his regiment
in the expedition to Holland, where he served in several actions
under Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness
the Duke of York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the
expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, and
was promoted to the rank of major-general, in January, 1801. After
commanding the light cavalry in Egypt some time, he was placed at
the head of a brigade of infantry, and was honored with the Order of
the Crescent from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of foot
guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in 1807 he commanded
a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. In 1808 he was promoted to
the rank of lieut.-general, and appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth
regiment, and in 1809 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND. He was
promoted to the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the
27th of October, 1843.
SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.B.
_Appointed 21st November, 1843._
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