November embarked from Liverpool for Ireland, and, after landing at
Dublin, marched to Mullingar, Longford, Tullamore, Philipstown, and
Maryborough.
[Sidenote: 1822]
[Sidenote: 1823]
[Sidenote: 1824]
[Sidenote: 1825]
[Sidenote: 1826]
The regiment remained in Ireland during the years 1822, 1823, 1824,
and 1825; in the autumn of 1826 it was divided into six service and
four depôt companies: the service companies embarked from Cork in
October, for the island of Demerara, where they arrived in December.
[Sidenote: 1830]
The depôt companies were stationed in Ireland until June, 1830, when
they embarked from Cork for Portsmouth, where they arrived in two
days.
[Sidenote: 1836]
After occupying various stations in the British West India Islands,
during the period of nearly ten years, the service companies embarked
from Barbadoes in July, 1836, and landed at Cork in August: they were
afterwards joined by the depôt companies from England.
[Sidenote: 1837]
[Sidenote: 1838]
During the years 1837 and 1838, the regiment was stationed in
Ireland; in December, 1839, it embarked from Dublin for Bristol; but
returned to Ireland in March following.
[Sidenote: 1840]
In the summer of 1840 the regiment was again divided into six
service, and four depôt companies, and in September the service
companies embarked from Cork for the island of Malta, where they
landed on the 3rd and 13th of October.
[Sidenote: 1841]
[Sidenote: 1842]
The depôt companies left Ireland in 1841, and were stationed a short
time at Gosport; they proceeded to Brighton in March, 1842, and to
Dover Castle in October.
[Sidenote: 1843]
General Sir Hilgrove Turner, G.C.H., K.C., died at Jersey, in May,
1843, and General Sir Warren Marmaduke Peacocke, K.C.H. and K.C., was
appointed by Her Majesty Colonel of the NINETEENTH regiment.
The service companies proceeded in the Resistance troop-ship from
Malta to the Ionian Islands on the 9th of January, 1843, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, and arrived at Corfu on the 20th
of the same month; five days afterwards the head-quarters and three
companies embarked in the Boyne transport for Cephalonia.
In October, 1843, the depôt companies marched from Dover to
Winchester, and from thence to Portsmouth, where they embarked for
Jersey.
[Sidenote: 1845]
On the 18th of June, 1845, the depôt companies embarked at Jersey for
Ireland, and disembarked at Waterford.
On the 5th of December, 1845, the service companies of the NINETEENTH
regiment embarked at Corfu for the West Indies, in the Java
freight-ship, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hay.
[Sidenote: 1846]
The regiment arrived at Barbadoes on the 19th of January, 1846.
[Sidenote: 1847]
In February, 1847, the regiment embarked at Barbadoes for St. Vincent.
[Sidenote: 1848]
The regiment returned to Barbadoes in April, 1848, and was
transhipped on board the Bombay transport on the 12th of that month,
and sailed in a few days for North America.
On the 1st of July, the date to which the record has been continued,
the service companies were stationed at Montreal, under the command
of Major Sanders, and the depôt companies, under Major Calley,
remained in Ireland, the head-quarters occupying the barracks at
Castlebar.
[Sidenote: 1848]
The details narrated in the foregoing pages, contain accounts of the
services of the NINETEENTH REGIMENT OF FOOT, for a period of one
hundred and sixty years, and although the Regimental colour does
not display any mark of distinction for services performed, yet the
record of the regiment proves, that when opportunity has offered, the
regiment has evinced that zeal and devotion to its country's cause,
and that patient endurance and bravery in the field, for which every
British corps has been distinguished; these qualities were shown in
the war in Flanders under King William III., particularly at the
battles of _Steenkirk_ and _Landen_, and at the siege of _Namur_,
from 1692 to 1695; again in Flanders in 1710 and 1711, with the army
under the command of the Duke of Marlborough. The regiment again
distinguished itself in the war in Flanders, particularly at the
battles of Fontenoy, Roucoux, and Val, in 1745, 1746, and 1747. In
1761, in the attack and capture of _Belle Isle_, where nature as well
as art had combined to render the place impregnable, the regiment
evinced an extraordinary degree of bravery. Its services were again
evinced in Flanders, with the army under His Royal Highness the Duke
of York, in 1794 and 1795.
The regiment has also been distinguished by long and arduous services
in the eastern parts of the world from 1796 to 1820; it was engaged
in the storming of Seringapatam on the 4th of May, 1799, where the
celebrated Tippoo Saib was mortally wounded, and the city captured.
Its services in the conquest of the Island of Ceylon and the
deposition of the King of Candy, in 1815, likewise form an important
and honorable era in the records of the regiment; the gallantry of
the troops on this occasion caused the annexation of the colony of
Ceylon to the British dominions, and the conduct of the NINETEENTH
regiment in suppressing the rebellion in that island, in 1818,
secured the possession of this valuable appendage to the territories
of Great Britain.
The services of the NINETEENTH regiment in the Field, as well as in
arduous Colonial duties, have been such as to show in the foregoing
pages, that the officers and men have ample cause for feelings of
pride in the honor acquired by the corps in whatever duty it has
been employed, and this tribute of commendation is considered to be
justly due to a regiment, the services of which have been so highly
meritorious during a period of one hundred and sixty years.
1848.
[Illustration: NINETEENTH REGIMENT OF FOOT.
_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand_
FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS]
APPENDIX.
_Battles, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign of_ KING
WILLIAM III., _from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick in 1697_.
Battle of Walcourt 25 August, 1689
---- ---- Fleurus 4 July, 1690
Mons surrendered to the French 10 April, 1691
Namur ditto ditto 20 June, 1692
Battle of Steenkirk 3 August, ----
Furnes and Dixmude captured -- Sept., ----
The French lines at D'Otignies forced 10 July, 1693
Battle of Landen 29 July, ----
Surrender of Huy 17 Sept., 1694
Attack on Port Kenoque 9 June, 1695
Dixmude surrendered to the French 16 July, ----
Namur retaken by King William III. 25 July, ----
Citadel of Namur surrendered 5 Sept., ----
Treaty of Ryswick signed 11 Sept., 1697
_List of Sieges, Battles, &c., in the Netherlands and Germany, during
the Campaigns under the_ DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, _from 1702 to 1712_.
Invested. Surrendered.
Siege of Kayserswerth 16 April, 17 June, 1702
Skirmish near Nimeguen 11 June, ----
Siege of Venloo 29 Aug., 25 Sept., ----
Capture of Fort St. Michael 18 Sept., ----
Siege of Stevenswaert 3 Oct., ----
---- Ruremonde 6 Oct., ----
Capture of Liege Citadel 23 Oct., ----
Siege of Bonn 24 April, 15 May, 1703
---- Huy 16 Aug., 25 Aug., ----
---- Limburg 10 Sept., 28 Sept., ----
Battle of Schellenberg 2 July, 1704
---- Blenheim 13 Aug., ----
Siege of Landau 12 Sept., 24 Nov., ----
Huy captured by the French May, 1705
Re-capture of Huy 11 July, ----
Forcing the French Lines at Helixem,
near Tirlemont 18 July, ----
Skirmish near the Dyle 21 July, ----
Siege of Sandvliet 26 Oct., 29 Oct., ----
Battle of Ramilies 23 May, 1706
Siege of Ostend 28 June, 8 July, ----
---- Menin 25 July, 25 Aug., ----
---- Dendermond 29 Aug., 5 Sept., ----
---- Aeth 16 Sept., 3 Oct., ----
Battle of Oudenarde 11 July, 1708
Siege of Lisle 13 Aug., 23 Oct., ----
Capture of the Citadel 9 Dec., ----
Battle of Wynendale 28 Sept., ----
Passage of the Scheldt 27 Nov., ----
Siege of Ghent 18 Dec., 30 Dec., ----
---- Tournay 27 June, 29 July, 1709
Capture of the Citadel 3 Sept., ----
Battle of Malplaquet 11 Sept., ----
Siege of Mons 21 Sept., 20 Oct., ----
Passage of the French lines at Pont-à-Vendin 21 April, 1710
Siege of Douay 25 April, 27 June, ----
---- Bethune 15 July, 29 Aug., ----
---- Aire 6 Sept., 9 Nov., ----
---- St. Venant 6 Sept., 30 Sept., ----
Passage of the French lines at Arleux 5 Aug., 1711
Siege of Bouchain 10 Aug., 13 Sept., ----
Treaty of Utrecht signed 30 March, 1713
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
OF THE
NINETEENTH,
OR THE FIRST YORKSHIRE NORTH RIDING
REGIMENT OF FOOT.
FRANCIS LUTTERELL.
_Appointed 28th February, 1689._
FRANCIS LUTTERELL, was one of the zealous Protestant gentlemen who
joined the standard of the Prince of Orange, at the Revolution in
1688, and on the elevation of the Prince to the throne, in February,
1689, he was nominated Colonel of a regiment of foot, now the
NINETEENTH, which was formed of companies raised in November, 1688.
He died before he attained any higher rank.
THOMAS ERLE.
_Appointed 1st January, 1691._
THOMAS ERLE evinced attachment to the principles of the Revolution
of 1688, and on the 8th of March, 1689, he was commissioned to raise
a regiment of foot for the service of King William III., which was
afterwards disbanded. He proceeded with his regiment to Ireland in
1689, and proved an officer of great merit and personal bravery. He
served under King William at the battle of the Boyne, and at the
siege of Limerick in 1690; and greatly distinguished himself at the
battle of Aghrim in 1691, where he was taken prisoner at the head of
his regiment, in attempting to force the passage of a bog. He was
rescued by his men, and headed another attack, when he was wounded
and again taken prisoner; but was rescued a second time by his
men. He afterwards served at the siege of Limerick, and being sent
to England with despatches, he was removed by King William to the
NINETEENTH regiment, his commission being dated the 1st of January,
1691. He was nominated Brigadier-General in 1793, and served under
King William in Flanders; but was obliged to quit the field from ill
health. While confined to his bed with a fever, at Malines, he heard
that a general engagement was likely to take place, when he rejoined
the army, behaved with great gallantry at the battle of Landen, and
was dangerously wounded. He recovered of his wound, and commanded a
brigade during the campaigns of 1694 and 1695; on the 1st of June,
1696, he was promoted to the rank of Major-General; and in February,
1703, to that of Lieut.-General. He was employed on the staff of
South Britain, and raised a regiment of dragoons, the colonelcy of
which was afterwards conferred on Lord Cutts. In 1708, he commanded
an expedition to the coast of France, but nothing of importance was
accomplished; he afterwards proceeded with the infantry to Ostend,
and performed great service in forwarding supplies to the allied army
during the siege of Lisle. In 1709, he disposed of the colonelcy
of his regiment. He was afterwards nominated Lieut.-General of the
Ordnance, and also Commander of the land forces in South Britain; and
in January, 1711, he was promoted to the rank of General. Political
events occasioned his removal from the appointments of Lieut.-General
of the Ordnance, and Commander in South Britain, in 1712. He died on
the 23rd of July, 1720.
GEORGE FREKE.
_Appointed 23rd May, 1709._
This officer was appointed Ensign in the NINETEENTH regiment on the
19th of April, 1693, and he served in Flanders under King William
III. In 1702, he served in the expedition to Cadiz, from whence he
proceeded to the West Indies, and was afterwards rewarded with the
lieut.-colonelcy of the NINETEENTH regiment, the colonelcy of which
corps he obtained by purchase in 1709. He was promoted to the rank of
Brigadier-General on the 12th of February, 1711. His decease occurred
before he attained any higher rank.
RICHARD SUTTON.
_Appointed 3rd April, 1712._
RICHARD SUTTON was appointed Ensign in a regiment of foot, on the 1st
of April, 1690, and he served in Ireland, and also in Flanders, under
King William III. He was afterwards promoted to the majority of the
Eighth regiment, with which he served at the battles of Schellenberg
and Blenheim in 1704; at the forcing of the French lines at Helixem
in 1705; and at the battle of Ramilies, in 1706. Being afterwards
promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy, he commanded the regiment at the
battle of Oudenarde in 1708. On the 23rd of March, 1709, he was
promoted to the colonelcy of a newly-raised regiment, and in 1710 he
was nominated a Brigadier-General. He commanded a brigade in Flanders
during the campaign of 1711; served at the forcing of the French
lines at Arleux, and at the siege and capture of Bouchain. In 1712,
he was removed to the NINETEENTH regiment, was nominated Governor of
Hull, and commanded a brigade in Flanders under the Duke of Ormond:
he was afterwards promoted to the rank of Major-General; but in 1715,
he retired from active service. He was restored to the colonelcy
of the NINETEENTH regiment in 1729, and promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-General in 1735. He died in 1738.
GEORGE GROVE.
_Appointed 5th August, 1715._
GEORGE GROVE served in the foot guards, in which corps he rose to the
rank of Captain and Lieut.-Colonel. Being a very zealous and loyal
officer, at a period when Jacobite principles had become prevalent in
the kingdom, he was nominated Colonel of the NINETEENTH regiment,
his commission being dated the 5th of August, 1715: he did not attain
any higher rank than that of Colonel. His death occurred on the 13th
of October, 1729.
RICHARD SUTTON.
_Re-appointed 27th October, 1729._
_Died in 1738._
THE HONORABLE CHARLES HOWARD.
_Appointed 1st November, 1738._
THE HONORABLE CHARLES HOWARD, second son of Charles third Earl
of Carlisle, was appointed Ensign and Lieutenant in the Second
foot guards on the 10th of August, 1715; in 1717 he was promoted
to Captain in the sixteenth foot, from which he exchanged to the
ninth dragoons; and in April, 1719, he was nominated Captain and
Lieut.-Colonel in the Second foot guards. He was appointed deputy
governor of Carlisle in 1725, Aide-de-camp to the King with the rank
of Colonel in 1734, and Colonel of the NINETEENTH regiment in 1738.
He proceeded with the army to Flanders, in 1742, with the rank of
Brigadier-General; in 1743 he obtained the rank of Major-General,
and in 1747 that of Lieut.-General; in 1748 he was removed to the
third dragoon guards. He was advanced to the dignity of a Knight of
the Bath in 1749, and promoted to the rank of General in 1765. He
was governor of Forts George and Augustus in Scotland; one of the
grooms of the bed-chamber to King George II.; and many years member
of parliament for Carlisle. He died in 1765.
LORD GEORGE BEAUCLERK.
_Appointed 15th March, 1748._
LORD GEORGE BEAUCLERK, sixth son of Charles first Duke of St.
Albans, served in the first regiment of foot guards, and was
promoted to Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in September, 1736. In 1745
he was nominated Aide-de-camp to King George II. with the rank
of Colonel, and in 1747 he obtained the colonelcy of the eighth
Marines (afterwards disbanded), from which he was removed, in 1748,
to the NINETEENTH regiment: in 1753 he was appointed governor of
Landguard Fort. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General in
1755, and to that of Lieut.-General in 1758. He performed the duties
of Commander-in-chief in Scotland some time; and was Member of
Parliament for Windsor. He died on the 11th of May, 1768.
DAVID GRAEME.
_Appointed 25th May, 1768._
DAVID GRAEME evinced loyalty and zeal for the interests of the
Crown and Kingdom, during the Seven Years' War, by raising a corps
of Highlanders, which was honored with the title of the 105th,
or Queen's Own Royal regiment of Highlanders, of which he was
appointed Colonel in 1761. This corps was disbanded after the peace
in 1763; and in 1764 he was nominated Colonel of the forty-ninth
regiment, from which he was removed, in 1768, to the NINETEENTH.
He was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1762; to that of
Lieut.-General in 1772; and to that of General in 1783. He died in
1797.
SAMUEL HULSE.
_Appointed 24th January, 1797._
SAMUEL HULSE entered the army in 1761, as ensign in the first foot
guards, and was promoted to Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in 1776;
in 1780 he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of his regiment,
with the rank of Colonel, and was employed in suppressing the riots
in London in the same year. At the commencement of the French
revolutionary war, he was called into active service, and commanded
the first battalion of his regiment, in Flanders, in 1793. He served
at the siege of Valenciennes; and distinguished himself at the action
of Lincelles, on the 18th of August, for which he was thanked in
orders by His Royal Highness the Duke of York. He was engaged in the
operations before Dunkirk, and in the subsequent movements until
October, when he was promoted to the rank of Major-General, and
returned to England. In May of the following year he again proceeded
to Flanders, and commanded a brigade before Tournay, where several
partial actions occurred, and in the retreat to Holland. Returning to
England early in 1795, he was appointed Colonel of the fifty-sixth
regiment, and placed on the home staff, where he continued three
years: in 1797 he was removed to the NINETEENTH regiment. On the 1st
of January, 1798, he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General,
and during the troubles in Ireland, in the summer of that year, his
services were extended to that part of the kingdom, but he returned
to England in November, and resumed his command on the staff. He
served in Holland under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, in
1799, and was at the several engagements from the 19th of September
to the 6th of October. On returning to England he was appointed to
the command of the southern district, in which he continued until
the peace in 1802. He was advanced to the rank of General in 1803;
appointed Lieut.-Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea in 1806;
and removed to the sixty-second regiment in 1810. He was one of
the earliest servants placed by King George III. on the household
establishment of the Prince of Wales, and was many years his Royal
Highness's treasurer and receiver-general; on the accession of the
Prince to the throne, General Hulse was nominated treasurer of the
household. On the 19th of February, 1820, on the decease of General
the Right Honorable Sir David Dundas, he was appointed Governor of
Chelsea Hospital. In 1821 he was Knighted. He was also appointed
ranger of Windsor home park; a privy councillor; and Knight Grand
Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. On the accession of
King William III., General Sir Samuel Hulse, G.C.H., was promoted to
the rank of Field-Marshal. He died in 1837, at the advanced age of
ninety years.
SIR HEW DALRYMPLE, BART.
_Appointed 25th June, 1810._
SIR HEW DALRYMPLE was appointed Ensign in the thirty-first regiment
in 1763; Captain in the second battalion of the Royals in 1768,
Major in the same corps in 1777, and was Knighted in 1779. He was
promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the sixty-eighth regiment in
1781, and obtained the rank of Colonel in 1790; he afterwards
exchanged into the First foot guards. He served the campaign of
1793 in the grenadier battalion of the foot guards, and was at the
battle of Famars, at the siege of Valenciennes, and in the action
before Dunkirk. At the conclusion of the campaign he returned to
England; and was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1794; in
1795 he was placed on the staff of the northern district; and in 1796
appointed Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, where he held the local rank
of Lieut.-General from 1799. In 1801 he was promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-General, and was placed on the staff in the command of the
northern district in 1802; in 1806 he was removed to the staff of
Gibraltar. Receiving orders to take the command of the British army
in Portugal, in 1808, he arrived in that kingdom in time to become
responsible for the Convention of Cintra, by which treaty the French
army evacuated that country. Sir Hew Dalrymple was promoted to the
rank of General in 1812; and was advanced to the dignity of a BARONET
in 1815. He obtained the colonelcy of the thirty-seventh regiment in
1798, was removed to the NINETEENTH in 1810, and to the fifty-seventh
in 1811. He died in 1830.
SIR TOMKYNS HILGROVE TURNER.
_Appointed 27th April, 1811._
This officer was appointed Ensign in the third foot guards in 1782,
and serving in Flanders in 1793, was at the battles of St. Amand and
Famars, at the siege of Valenciennes, the action at Lincelles, and
also before Dunkirk. In 1794 he was repeatedly engaged, commencing
with the attack on Vaux, afterwards in several affairs during the
siege of Landrecies, including the battle of Cateau; he served at the
battle of Tournay; the actions at Roulaix, Monveaux, and Templeuve.
In November, 1794, he was promoted to Captain and Lieut.-Colonel,
and in 1801 to the rank of Colonel. He served in the expedition to
Egypt; was at the battles of the 8th, 13th, and 21st of March, and
the action on the west side of Alexandria. He received a medal from
the Grand Seignior: and returned to England in charge of the Egyptian
antiquities, now in the British Museum. In 1804 he was nominated to
the rank of Brigadier-General; and he served in South America in 1807
and 1808. Returning to England in the latter year, he was promoted
to the rank of Major-General, and placed on the staff of the home
district: he was subsequently appointed deputy secretary at Carlton
House, under the Right Honorable Colonel M'Mahon. His services were
rewarded with the colonelcy of the Cape regiment, and in 1811 he was
removed to the NINETEENTH regiment. He was promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-General in 1813, and appointed Lieut.-Governor of Jersey in
1814. He received the Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic
Order; and the dignity of Knight of the Crescent of Turkey, and of
St. Anne of Russia. He was promoted to the rank of General on 22nd of
July, 1830. His decease occurred at Jersey, in May, 1843.
GENERAL SIR WARREN MARMADUKE PEACOCKE,
K.C.H. and K.C.
_Appointed 31st May, 1843._
London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street,
For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] A company of 200 men would appear thus:--
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20 20 20 30 2|0 30 20 20 20
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Harquebuses. Muskets. Halberds. Muskets. Harquebuses.
Archers. Pikes. Pikes. Archers.
The musket carried a ball which weighed 1/10th of a pound; and the
harquebus a ball which weighed 1/25th of a pound.
[2] The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps
in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of
Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under Admiral
Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and in its
subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at the
siege of Barcelona in 1705.
[3] The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed
in 1590, observes:--"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation
would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the
field, let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the
Spanish infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe.
For instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the
Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or
Buffs.
[4] _Vide_ the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of
Foot.
[5] "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes
the successes which 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 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 the 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."--_General Orders in 1801._