E-text prepared by Brian Coe, John Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations and maps. See 59779-h.htm or 59779-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59779/59779-h/59779-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59779/59779-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/campaignshistory00gret Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A caret character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the caret is superscripted (example: obed^t). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: 1^{st}). Footnotes are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 1/320. All dates in this book use the modern (NS) Gregorian calendar, except for quotations from regimental historians, who use old style (OS) Julian dates. See Footnote [12]. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: THE NORTH TRANSEPT OF ST PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN. CONTAINING THE COLOURS AND MEMORIALS OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT.] THE CAMPAIGNS AND HISTORY OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT FROM 1684 TO 1902 by LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G. LE M. GRETTON Late 3rd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment NAMUR, 1695 OUDENARDE CHINA NEW ZEALAND TEL-EL-KEBIR BLENHEIM MALPLAQUET PEGU AFGHANISTAN, 1879-80 NILE, 1884-5 RAMILLIES EGYPT SEVASTOPOL EGYPT, 1882 SOUTH AFRICA, 1900-02 William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London 1911 PREFACE.