History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2): From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal EngineersConnolly, T. W. J. (Thomas William John)
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History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2): From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers
Connolly, T. W. J. (Thomas William John)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Sappers and Miners
Working dress—Company sails for West 90
Indies—Martinique—Spirited conduct of detachment
there—Guadaloupe—Mortality—Toulon—Flanders—Reinforcement
to company there—Return of the company—Works at
Gravesend—Irregularities in the corps—Causes—Redeeming
qualities—Appointment of Regimental Adjutant and
Sergeant-major—Consequences—Woolwich becomes the
head-quarters—Alteration in working dress
1795-1796.
Companies to St. Domingo and the Caribbee Islands—Reduction 101
of St. Lucia—Conduct of company there—Gallantry in forming
lodgment and converting it into a battery—Attack on
Bombarde—Distribution and conduct of St. Domingo
company—Mortality in the West Indies—Detachment to
Halifax, Nova Scotia—Dougal Hamilton—Detachments to
Calshot Castle and St. Marcou
1797.
Detachments to Portugal—To Dover—Transfers to the 105
Artillery-Enlistment of artificers only—Incorporation of
Gibraltar companies with the corps—Capture of
Trinidad—Draft to West Indies—Failure at Porto
Rico—Fording the lagoon, by private D. Sinclair—Private W.
Rogers at the bridge St. Julien—Saves his
officer—Casualties by fever in Caribbean company—Filling
up company at St. Domingo with negroes—Mutinies in the
fleet at Portsmouth—Conduct of Plymouth company—Emeute in
the Royal Artillery, Woolwich—Increase of pay—Marquis
Cornwallis’s approbation of the corps—Mutiny at the
Nore—Consequent removal of detachment to
Gravesend—Alterations in dress
1798-1799.
Contribution of corps to the State—Detachment with 116
expedition to maritime Flanders—Destruction of the Bruges
canal—Battle near Ostend—Draft to West Indies—Capture of
Surinam—St. Domingo evacuated—Expedition to
Minorca—Conduct of detachment while serving
there—Composition of detachments for foreign
service—Parties to Sevenoaks and Harwich—Mission to
Turkey—Its movements and services—Special detachment to
Gibraltar to construct a cistern for the Navy—Detachment
with the expedition to Holland—Its services—Origin of the
Royal Staff Corps
1800.
Mortality in the West Indies—Blockade of Malta—Capture of a 126
transport on passage from Nova Scotia—Movements and
services of detachments in Turkey; attacked with
fever—Anecdote of private Thomas Taylor at
Constantinople—Cruise of expedition to Cadiz—Attack on the
city abandoned—Subsequent movements of the expedition;
Malta; and re-embarkation for Egypt—Statistics of
companies at Gibraltar
1801-1802.
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