John Hope entered the Dutch service, as a cadet, in one of t_Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment

regiments of the _Scots Brigade_ (Houston’s) in the service of

the United Provinces, in 1778, and served at Bergen-op-Zoom and

Maestretcht, going through the subordinate ranks of corporal and

serjeant. In 1779 he was appointed ensign, and in 1782 he was

promoted captain of a company; but, being called upon to renounce

his allegiance to the British monarch, he quitted the Dutch service,

and in 1787 he was appointed captain in the sixtieth foot, but his

company was soon afterwards reduced. On the 30th of June, 1788,

he was appointed captain in the thirteenth Light Dragoons, and in

1792 he was nominated aide-de-camp to Lieut.-General Sir William

Erskine, in which capacity he served the campaigns of 1793 and 1794,

in Holland, and returned to England in 1795, when he was promoted

to the majority of the twenty-eighth Light Dragoons, and in 1796

to the lieut.-colonelcy of the same corps, with which he embarked

for the Cape of Good Hope in the same year. He served at the Cape

until 1799, when his regiment was incorporated in other corps, and

he returned to England. In April, 1799, he was appointed to the

thirty-seventh foot, which corps he joined, in 1800, in the West

Indies, where he remained until 1804, when he returned to England,

and exchanged to the sixtieth regiment. In 1805 he was nominated

assistant adjutant-general in Scotland, and in 1807 he served as

deputy adjutant-general to the expedition to Copenhagen, under

Lieut.-General Lord Cathcart. He was appointed brigadier-general

on the staff of North Britain in 1808, and subsequently deputy

adjutant-general in that part of the United Kingdom. He was promoted

to the rank of major-general in 1810, and appointed to the staff

of the Severn district, from whence he was removed to the staff of

the Peninsula in 1812, and served with the army under the Duke of

Wellington at the battle of Salamanca, for which he received a medal.

He subsequently served on the staff of Ireland and North Britain

until 1819, when he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general. He

was honored with the dignity of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal

Hanoverian Guelphic Order. In 1820 he was appointed colonel of the

NINETY-SECOND regiment, from which he was removed, in 1823, to the

seventy-second Highlanders. He died in August 1836.

HONORABLE SIR ALEXANDER DUFF, G.C.H.

_Appointed 6th September, 1823._

Removed to the thirty-seventh regiment on the 20th of July, 1831.

JOHN EARL OF STAIR, K.T.

_Appointed 20th July, 1831._

Removed to the forty-sixth regiment on the 31st May, 1843.

SIR WILLIAM MACBEAN, K.C.B.

_Appointed 31st May, 1843._

Succession of LIEUTENANT-COLONELS in the NINETY-SECOND Regiment

(HIGHLANDERS).

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| The Marquis of | 10 Feb. 1794 | 3 May 1796 | Promoted Colonel of |

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| James Robertson | 11 Oct. 1798 | 3 Aug. 1804 | Retired on half-pay.|

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| John Lamont | 30 Mar. 1809 | 25 Dec. 1814 | Retired on half-pay.|

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| Wm. Brydges Neynoe | 9 Aug. 1821 | 3 Oct. 1821 |Exchanged to half-pay|

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| David Williamson | 4 Oct. 1821 | 20 Nov. 1828 | Retired. |

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| John McDonald | 21 Nov. 1828 | 8 Nov. 1846 | Promoted Major- |

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| John Alex. Forbes | 9 Nov. 1846 | 22 Nov. 1849 | Retired. |

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| Mark Kerr Atherley | 23 Nov. 1849 | | |

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Succession of MAJORS of NINETY-SECOND Regiment (HIGHLANDERS).

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| Charles Erskine | 10 Feb. 1794 | 30 Apr. 1795 | Promoted Lt.-Col of |

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| Donald McDonald | 20 Aug. 1794 | 11 Mar. 1796 | Retired. |

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| Simon McDonald | 1 May 1795 | 16 Jan. 1799 | Retired. |

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| Alexander Napier | 12 Mar. 1796 | 4 Apr. 1801 | Promoted Lt.-Col. of|

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| John Gordon | 17 Jan. 1799 | 22 Jan. 1806 | Retired. |

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| Archibald McDonnell | 29 Aug. 1805 | 25 Jan. 1813 | Promoted Lt.-Col. |

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| James Watson | 23 Jan. 1806 | 23 May 1810 | Retired. |

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| Archibald Campbell | 24 May 1810 | 6 Jan. 1813 | Retired. |

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| Donald Macdonald | 26 Nov. 1812 | 25 Nov. 1818 | Exchanged to half |

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| William Phipps | 7 Jan. 1813 | 25 Dec. 1814 | Retired on half-pay.|

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| James Lee | 28 Apr. 1814 | 25 Dec. 1814 | Retired on half-pay.|

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| George Couper | 30 Dec. 1819 | 19 Mar. 1823 | Exchanged to the |

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| James Forrest Fulton| 20 Mar. 1823 | 12 May 1824 | Retired. |

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| John Spink | 13 May 1824 | 20 May 1826 | Promoted Lt.-Col. |

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| Robert Winchester | 16 Aug. 1825 | 31 Oct. 1842 | Retired on full pay.|

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|Isaiah Linwood Verity| 9 Feb. 1826 | 21 Mar. 1827 | Retired. |

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| Hon. James Sinclair | 22 Mar. 1827 | 18 Feb. 1829 | Exchanged to half |

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| Geo. Edward Thorold | 1 Nov. 1842 | | |

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| Mark Kerr Atherley | 9 Nov. 1846 | 22 Nov. 1849 | Promoted Lt.-Col. of|

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|Arch. Inglis Lockhart| 23 Nov. 1849 | | |

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FOOTNOTES:

[20] Inserted in Appendix, pages 142 and 143.

APPENDIX.

“_Horse Guards_,

“_16th May, 1801._

“GENERAL ORDERS.

“The recent events which have occurred in Egypt have induced His

Majesty to lay his most gracious commands on His Royal Highness

the Commander-in-Chief, to convey to the troops employed in that

country His Majesty’s highest approbation of their conduct; and

at the same time His Majesty has deemed it expedient that these

his gracious sentiments should be communicated to every part of

his army, not doubting that all ranks will thereby be inspired

with an honorable spirit of emulation, and an eager desire of

distinguishing themselves in their country’s service.

“Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes

the successes that have attended the exertions of his troops in

Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons;

but His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and most forcibly

impressed on the consideration of every part of the army, that

it has been a strict observance of _order_, _discipline_, and

_military_ system, which has given its full energy to the native

valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the

superiority of the national military character, in situations

uncommonly arduous, and under circumstances of peculiar

difficulty.

“The illustrious example of their Commander cannot fail to have

made an indelible impression on the gallant troops, at whose

head, crowned with victory and glory, he terminated his honorable

career; and His Majesty trusts that a due contemplation of the

talents and virtues which he uniformly displayed in the course of

his valuable life, will for ever endear the memory of SIR RALPH

ABERCROMBY to the British army.

“His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief having thus obeyed

His Majesty’s commands, cannot forbear to avail himself of this

opportunity of recapitulating the leading features of a series of

operations so honorable to the British arms.

“The boldness of the approach to the coast of Aboukir, in

defiance of a powerful and well-directed artillery; the orderly

formation upon the beach, under the heaviest fire of grape and

musketry; the reception and repulse of the enemy’s cavalry and

infantry; the subsequent charge of our troops, which decided the

victory, and established a footing on the shores of Egypt, are

circumstances of glory never surpassed in the military annals of

the world.

“The advance of the army, on the 13th of March, towards

ALEXANDRIA, presents the spectacle of a movement of infantry

through an open country, who, being attacked upon their march,

_formed_, and _repulsed_ the enemy; then advanced in line

for three miles, engaged along their whole front, until they

drove the enemy to seek his safety under the protection of his

entrenched position. Such had been the order and regularity of

the advance.

“Upon the 21st of March, the united force of the French in Egypt

attacked the position of the British army.

“An attack, begun an hour before daylight, could derive no

advantage over the vigilance of an army ever ready to receive

it. The enemy’s most vigorous and repeated efforts were directed

against the right and centre. Our infantry fought in the plain,

greatly inferior in the number of their artillery, and unaided by

cavalry.

“They relied upon their discipline and their courage. The

desperate attacks of a veteran cavalry, joined to those of a

numerous infantry, which had vainly styled itself ‘_Invincible_,’

were everywhere repulsed; and a conflict the most severe

terminated in one of the most signal victories which ever adorned

the annals of the British nation.

“In bringing forward these details, the Commander-in-Chief does

not call upon the army merely _to admire_ but _to emulate_

such conduct. Every soldier who feels for the honor of his

country, while he exults in events so splendid and important in

themselves, will henceforth have fresh motives for cherishing

and enforcing the practice of discipline, and by uniting, in

the greatest perfection, order and precision with activity and

courage, will seek to uphold, and transmit undiminished to

posterity, the _Glory_ and _Honor_ of the _British Arms_.

“Nor is a less useful example to be derived from the conduct of

the distinguished Commander who fell in the field. His steady

observance of discipline, his ever-watchful attention to the

health and wants of his troops, the persevering and unconquerable

spirit which marked his military career, the splendour of his

actions in the field, and the heroism of his death, are worthy

the imitation of all who desire, like him, a life of honor and a

death of glory.

“By Order of His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,

“HARRY CALVERT,

“_Colonel and Adjutant-General_.”

The following Regiments were employed in EGYPT, in 1801, and were

permitted by His Majesty King George the Third, to bear on their

colours the _Sphinx_, with the word “EGYPT,” as a distinguished mark

of His Majesty’s Royal approbation, and as a lasting memorial of the

glory acquired to His Majesty’s arms by the zeal, discipline, and

intrepidity of his troops in that arduous and important campaign,

_viz._:—

_Corps._ _Commanding Officers._

‡8th Light Dragoons, 1 Troop Captain Hawkins.

11th Light Dragoons, 1 Troop Captain A. Money.

12th ” Colonel Mervyn Archdall.

†22nd ” Lieut.-Col. Hon. Wm. Lumley.

26th (afterwards 23rd) Light } Lieut.-Colonel Robert Gordon.

Dragoons }

Hompesch’s Hussars (detachment) Major Sir Robert T. Wilson.

Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Brice.

3rd Foot Guards, 1st Battalion Lieut.-Colonel T. Hilgrove Turner.

Royals, 2nd Battalion Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Campbell.

2nd Queen’s Royal Colonel the Earl of Dalhousie.

8th Foot, King’s Colonel Gordon Drummond.

*10th ” Lieut.-Colonel Richard Quarrell.

13th ” ” Hon. Chas. Colville.

18th, Royal Irish ” Henry T. Montresor.

†20th Foot, 1st and 2nd Battalions ” George Smith.

23rd, Royal Welsh Fusiliers ” John Hall.

†24th Foot Lieut.-Colonel John R. Forster.

†25th ” Colonel William Dyott.

†26th ” ” Lord Elphinstone.

27th, Inniskilling, 1st & 2nd Bns. Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Graham.

28th Foot Colonel Hon. Edward Paget.

30th ” Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Wilkinson.

40th ” (Flank Companies) Colonel Brent Spencer.

42nd, Royal Highland Regt. Lieut.-Colonel William Dickson.

44th Foot ” David Ogilvie.

50th Foot Colonel Patrick Wauchope.

54th ” 1st and 2nd Battalions Lieut.-Colonel John Thos. Layard.

58th ” ” William Houston.

‡61st ” ” Francis Carruthers.

79th ” Colonel Alan Cameron.

*80th ” Lieut.-Colonel John Montresor.

*86th ” ” James P. Lloyd.

*88th ” Colonel Wm. Carr Beresford.

89th ” ” William Stewart.

90th ” ” Rowland Hill.

92nd ” Lieut.-Colonel Charles Erskine.

†De Watteville’s Regiment Lieut.-Col. Louis de Watteville.

The Queen’s German Regiment Lt.-Col. Peter John James Dutens.

De Roll’s Regiment ” The Baron De Dürler.

Dillon’s Regiment ” The Baron Perponcher.

Royal Corsican Rangers Major Hudson Lowe.

†Ancient Irish Fencibles

†Chasseurs Britanniques Colonel John Ramsay.

Staff Corps (detachment)

* The 10th, 80th, 86th, and 88th Regiments proceeded from the

East Indies, under the orders of Major-General David Baird, to

join the army in Egypt.

† The 22nd Light Dragoons, 20th (two battalions), 24th, 25th,

and 26th Regiments, the Ancient Irish Fencibles, and the foreign

corps of De Watteville and Chasseurs Britanniques, joined the

Army in Egypt in July, 1801.

‡ One troop of the 8th Light Dragoons and the 61st Regiment,

embarked from the Cape of Good Hope, joined the army under

Major-General Baird at Cosseir in July, 1801, and proceeded

through the Desert to Ghench, or Kenneh, on the Nile, where the

troops embarked for Cairo.

List of Regiments which composed the army under Lieut.-General Lord

Cathcart, employed in the Expedition to COPENHAGEN in the year 1807.

Corps. Officers. Men.

Royal Artillery 65 1,545

Royal Engineers 15 53

Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion 44 1,300

Scots Fusilier Guards ” 40 1,292

4th Regiment of Foot ” 46 1,061

7th Royal Fusiliers ” 37 786

8th Foot ” 36 859

23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers ” 46 1,054

28th Regiment ” 48 1,158

32nd ” ” 36 727

43rd ” ” 51 1,065

50th ” ” 36 957

52nd ” 2nd Battalion 31 712

79th ” 1st Battalion 44 1,044

82nd ” ” 38 826

92nd ” ” 38 1,039

95th (Rifle Brigade) part of 1st and 2nd Battalions 49 967

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Total British 700 16,445

=== ======

KING’S GERMAN LEGION.

Officers. Men.

1st Light Dragoons 36 610

2nd ” 41 620

3rd ” 40 621

Royal Artillery 34 675

1st Battalion of the Line 39 824

2nd ” 38 837

3rd ” 41 815

4th ” 41 813

5th ” 41 802

6th ” 42 835

7th ” 39 830

8th ” 41 726

1st Battalion Light Infantry 40 825

2nd ” 24 532

Depôt Company 3 130

Garrison Company 2 60

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Total King’s German Legion 542 10,555

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General Total 1,242 27,000

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“_His Majesty’s Ship, ‘Audacious,’_

“_18th January, 1809._

“GENERAL ORDERS.

“The irreparable loss that has been sustained by the fall of the

Commander of the Forces (Lieut.-General Sir John Moore), and the

severe wound which has removed Lieut.-General Sir David Baird

from his station, render it the duty of Lieut.-General Hope to

congratulate the army upon the successful result of the action of

the 16th instant.

“On no occasion has the undaunted valour of British troops ever

been more manifest. At the termination of a severe and harassing

march, rendered necessary by the superiority which the enemy had

acquired, and which had materially impaired the efficiency of the

troops, many disadvantages were to be encountered.

“These have all been surmounted by the conduct of the troops

themselves; and the enemy has been taught, that whatever

advantages of position, or of numbers he may employ, there is

inherent in the British officers and soldiers, a bravery that

knows not how to yield, that no circumstances can appal, and that

will ensure victory when it is to be obtained by the exertion of

any human means.

“The Lieut.-General has the greatest satisfaction in

distinguishing such meritorious services, as came within his

observation, or have been brought to his knowledge.

“His acknowledgments are, in a peculiar manner, due to

Lieut.-General Lord William Bentinck, and the brigade under his

command, consisting of the fourth, forty-second, and fiftieth

regiments, and which sustained the weight of the attack.

“Major-General Manningham, with his brigade, consisting of

the Royals, the twenty-sixth and eighty-first regiments, and

Major-General Warde, with the brigade of Guards, will also be

pleased to accept his best thanks for their steady and gallant

conduct during the action.

“To Major-General Paget, who, by a judicious movement of the

reserve, effectually contributed to check the progress of

the enemy on the right; and to the first battalion of the

fifty-second and ninety-fifth regiments, which were thereby

engaged, the greatest praise is justly due.

“That part of Major-General Leith’s brigade which was engaged,

consisting of the fifty-ninth regiment, under the conduct of the

Major-General, also claims marked approbation.

“The enemy not having rendered the attack on the left a serious

one, did not afford to the troops stationed in that quarter an

opportunity of displaying that gallantry which must have made him

repent the attempt.

“The piquets and advanced posts, however, of the brigades

under the command of _Major-Generals Hill and Leith_, and

_Colonel Catlin Craufurd_, conducted themselves with determined

resolution; and were ably supported by the officers commanding

these brigades, and by the troops of which they were composed.

“It is peculiarly incumbent upon the Lieut.-General to notice the

vigorous attack made by the second battalion of the _fourteenth_

regiment under _Lieut.-Colonel Nicolls_, which drove the enemy

out of the village, of the left of which he had possessed himself.

“The exertions of _Lieut.-Colonel Murray_, Quarter-Master

General, and of the other officers of the General Staff, during

the action, were unremitted, and deserve every degree of

approbation.

“The illness of _Brigadier-General Clinton_, Adjutant-General,

unfortunately deprived the army of the benefit of his services.

“The Lieut.-General hopes the loss in point of numbers is not so

considerable as might have been expected; he laments, however,

the fall of the gallant soldiers and valuable officers who have

suffered.

“The Lieut.-General knows that it is impossible, in any language

he can use, to enhance the esteem, or diminish the regret, that

the army feels with him for its late Commander. His career has

been unfortunately too limited for his country, but has been

sufficient for his own fame. Beloved by the army, honored by his

Sovereign, and respected by his country, he has terminated a life

devoted to her service, by a glorious death,—leaving his name as

a memorial, an example, and an incitement, to those who shall

follow him in the path of honor, and it is from his country alone

that his memory can receive the tribute which is its due.

(Signed) “JOHN HOPE, _Lieut.-General_.”

“_Horse Guards_,

“_1st February, 1809._

“GENERAL ORDERS.

“The benefits derived to an army from the example of a

distinguished Commander, do not terminate at his death; his

virtues live in the recollection of his associates, and his fame

remains the strongest incentive to great and glorious actions.

“In this view, the Commander-in-Chief, amidst the deep and

universal regret which the death of Lieut.-General Sir JOHN MOORE

has occasioned, recalls to the troops the military career of that

illustrious officer for their instruction and imitation.

“Sir JOHN MOORE from his youth embraced the profession with the

feelings and sentiments of a soldier; he felt that a perfect

knowledge, and an exact performance of the humble, but important

duties of a subaltern officer, are the best foundations for

subsequent military fame; and his ardent mind, while it looked

forward to those brilliant achievements for which it was formed,

applied itself, with energy and exemplary assiduity, to the

duties of that station.

“In the school of regimental duty, he obtained that correct

knowledge of his profession so essential to the proper direction

of the gallant spirit of the soldier; and he was enabled to

establish a characteristic order and regularity of conduct,

because the troops found in their leader a striking example of

the discipline which he enforced on others.

“Having risen to command, he signalized his name in the West

Indies, in Holland, and in Egypt. The unremitting attention with

which he devoted himself to the duties of every branch of his

profession, obtained him the confidence of Sir Ralph Abercromby,

and he became the companion in arms of that illustrious officer,

who fell at the head of his victorious troops, in an action which

maintained our national superiority over the arms of France.

“Thus Sir JOHN MOORE at an early period obtained, with general

approbation, that conspicuous station, in which he gloriously

terminated his useful and honorable life.

“In a military character obtained amidst the dangers of climate,

the privations incident to service, and the sufferings of

repeated wounds, it is difficult to select any one point as a

preferable subject for praise; it exhibits, however, one feature

so particularly characteristic of the man, and so important to

the best interests of the service, that the Commander-in-Chief is

pleased to mark it with his peculiar approbation—

“THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN MOORE WAS SPENT AMONG THE TROOPS.

“During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care

and instruction of the officer and soldier; in war he courted

service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal

considerations, he esteemed that to which his country called

him, _the post of honor_, and by his undaunted spirit and

unconquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory.

“His country, the object of his latest solicitude, will rear a

monument to his lamented memory, and the Commander-in-Chief feels

he is paying the best tribute to his fame by thus holding him

forth as an EXAMPLE to the ARMY.

“By order of His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,

“HARRY CALVERT, _Adjutant-General_.”

The following Regiments composed the Army under Lieut.-General Sir

JOHN MOORE, at CORUNNA, on the 16th January, 1809.

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