on the 4th of February 1793, was promoted to a lieutenancy in
the Ninety-ninth regiment on the 6th of August following, and
was advanced to the rank of Captain in the One hundred and fifth
regiment on the 23rd of April 1794, which two latter corps have
been since disbanded. Captain Bruce was removed to the THIRTY-NINTH
regiment on the 1st of October 1795, and was present at the capture
of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice in 1796. He served seven years
with his regiment in the West Indies, and on the staff as Assistant
Quartermaster-General and Barrack-Master at Surinam and Antigua.
On the 25th of September 1803 he received the brevet rank of
Major, and was promoted to that rank in the THIRTY-NINTH regiment
on the 21st of March 1805. He next served in Spain and Portugal;
and on the 25th of July 1810 was advanced to the brevet rank of
Lieut.-Colonel. Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Bruce commanded the first
battalion of the THIRTY-NINTH at the battle of Vittoria on the
21st of June 1813, in consequence of Colonel the Honorable Robert
William O’Callaghan being in temporary command of a brigade, and
also during the actions in the Pyrenees from the 25th to the 31st
of July following. At the passage of the Nive in December of the
same year Lieut.-Colonel Bruce commanded the light companies of the
brigade, and distinguished himself at the affair of _Garris_ on the
15th of February 1814, where he was severely wounded. He was also
present at the battle of Orthes on the 27th of that month. For the
battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, and Orthes, he had the honor
of wearing a cross, and on the 4th of June 1815 was nominated a
Companion of the Order of the Bath. On the 29th of June 1815 he
was appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the THIRTY-NINTH regiment, and was
placed on the half-pay of that corps on the 25th of February 1816.
Lieut.-Colonel Bruce was promoted to the brevet rank of Colonel on
the 12th of August 1819, was appointed to the Sixty-ninth regiment
on the 29th of March 1821, and was placed on the half-pay of that
corps on the 25th of April 1826, from which he exchanged to the
Sixth foot on the 10th of January 1828, and to the Sixty-fourth
regiment on the 1st of May following. Colonel Bruce was advanced
to the rank of Major-General on the 22nd of July 1830, and was
nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the 13th
of September 1831. His decease occurred in London on the 7th of
August 1832.
_Memoir of the Services of Major-General Sir Patrick Lindesay,
K.C.B. and K.C.H., formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the_ THIRTY-NINTH
_regiment_.
Major-General Sir Patrick Lindesay was the only son of
Lieut.-Colonel John Lindesay of the Fifty-third regiment, and
was born at Musselburgh, in the county of Edinburgh, on the 24th
of February 1778. He received his education at the university
of St. Andrew’s, and was appointed Ensign in the Thirty-second
regiment on the 7th of November 1793, and was gazetted Lieutenant
in the Seventy-eighth regiment on the day following. Lieutenant
Lindesay was wounded while serving with his regiment in Holland in
1794, in the expedition under the command of His Royal Highness
the Duke of York, and was promoted to the rank of Captain on
the 1st of September 1795. Captain Lindesay was removed from
the Seventy-eighth to the THIRTY-NINTH regiment on the 20th of
October 1796, and served with the latter corps in the colonies of
Demerara, Berbice, and Surinam, from 1797 until December 1802,
when the regiment embarked for Barbadoes, proceeding thence to
Antigua, and, in March 1803, returned to England, where it arrived
in April following. After serving for a short period on the staff
as Aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Brent Spencer in the Sussex
district, he accompanied the first battalion of the THIRTY-NINTH
regiment to the Mediterranean in March 1805. On the 1st of October
1807 he was advanced to the rank of Major in the THIRTY-NINTH; and
this promotion removed him to the second battalion of the regiment,
which he subsequently joined at Guernsey, and proceeded with it in
June 1809 to Portugal, the battalion having been selected to form
part of the force employed in that country under the command of
Lieut.-General the Honorable Sir Arthur Wellesley. Major Lindesay
was present at the battle of Busaco on the 27th of September 1810,
in command of the second battalion of the THIRTY-NINTH regiment,
Lieut.-Colonel Wilson having been appointed to the charge of
a brigade. At the battle of Albuhera on the 16th of May 1811,
Major Lindesay also commanded the second battalion, and received
a medal for that action, and on the 20th of June following was
promoted to the brevet rank of Lieut.-Colonel. Shortly afterwards
he again distinguished himself at Arroyo dos Molinos, on the 28th
of October 1811, in an expedition, under the immediate orders of
Lieut.-General Rowland Hill, against a division of the French army
commanded by General Girard. On this occasion Brevet Lieut.-Colonel
Lindesay was detached with the second battalion of the THIRTY-NINTH
in pursuit of the discomfited enemy; and at considerable hazard,
although without success, personally summoned the French commander
to surrender. In 1812 Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Lindesay was employed
in England recruiting the second battalion under his command, which
had returned from the Peninsula for that purpose.
In October 1813 Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Lindesay joined the first
battalion in the Peninsula, and was present at the conflicts
with the enemy on the Nivelle, Nive, and at Bayonne, on the
invasion of the French territory, as well as in all the subsequent
engagements, until June 1814, when he embarked at Bourdeaux with
the first battalion for North America, upon the termination of the
campaign in the Peninsula, in consequence of Great Britain being
engaged in hostilities with the United States. In May 1815 the
battalion proceeded to embark at Quebec under the command of Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Lindesay, who was appointed a Companion of the Order
of the Bath on the 4th of June following. The services of the corps
were necessary in Europe, in consequence of the return of Napoleon
Bonaparte to France; but before in arrival at Ostend the victory
of Waterloo had been gained by the allied troops under the Duke
of Wellington. The battalion subsequently proceeded to Paris, and
Lieut.-Colonel Lindesay continued in France until the breaking up
of the Army of Occupation in 1818, when he returned to England with
the THIRTY-NINTH regiment, which embarked at Calais on the 30th
of October of that year, and shortly after its arrival at Dover
proceeded to Ireland.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Lindesay was appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the
THIRTY-NINTH on the 12th of August 1824; and having been employed
with the regiment in Ireland until the following year, he proceeded
to England in command of the corps preparatory to its embarking, by
detachments, for New South Wales, for which colony Brevet-Colonel
Lindesay, to which rank he had been promoted on the 27th of May
1825, embarked with the head-quarters of the regiment on the 26th
of April 1827.
While commanding the THIRTY-NINTH in New South Wales, the
government of the colony for a short time devolved upon Colonel
Lindesay, namely, from the 22nd of October to the 2nd of December
1831. In July 1832 six companies of the regiment proceeded from
Sydney to Madras, and were followed in December by the remaining
four companies. Upon joining the Madras army he was appointed a
Colonel on the staff, and Commandant of Bangalore on the 15th of
February 1833. In April 1834 he commanded the expedition against
the Rajah of Coorg, with the rank of Brigadier-General in India,
which was conducted with a skill, ability, and success, that
added greatly to his military reputation. Appointed on the 3rd of
January 1835 to the southern division of the Madras army, with
the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, he commanded the troops
stationed at Trichinopoly, when he was made a Knight Commander of
the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. His health, for the first
time during his long and active service, began to fail, and in the
beginning of 1836 Colonel Lindesay returned to England; on the 10th
of January 1837 he was advanced to the rank of Major-General, and
on the 19th of July 1838 was nominated a Knight Commander of the
Order of the Bath.
Major-General Sir Patrick Lindesay for a time appeared to derive
benefit from his native air, and the society of friends and
relatives, but the seeds of disease had taken too deep a hold of
his constitution to enable it to rally. After a lingering illness,
he died at Portobello, near Edinburgh, on the 14th of March 1839,
in the sixty-second year of his age, having completed a course of
more than forty-four years’ active service.
_List of Fifty-six Battalions formed from Men raised under the_
ARMY OF RESERVE _and_ ADDITIONAL FORCE ACTS, _in the Years 1803
and 1804_.
_Under the Army of Reserve Acts in 1803._
The following _Nineteen Regiments_ were appointed to receive men
raised for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland, under the
_Army of Reserve Acts_, passed in the year 1803, and were augmented
by second battalions, viz.:
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
| IN ENGLAND. | IN SCOTLAND. | IN IRELAND. |
| Under the Act | Under the Act | Under the Act |
| passed on the | passed on the | passed on the |
| 6th of July 1803. | 6th of July 1803. | 11th of July 1803. |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
| 3rd Reg. 53rd Reg. | 26th Regiment | 18th Regiment |
| 28th ” 57th ” | 42nd ” | 44th ” |
| 30th ” 61st ” | 92nd ” | 58th ” |
| 39th ” 66th ” | | 67th ” |
| 47th ” 69th ” | | |
| 48th ” 81st ” | | |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
In addition to the above corps, _Sixteen Reserve Battalions_ were
also formed from the men raised in the several counties of Great
Britain and Ireland, under the _Army of Reserve Acts_, as under
specified, viz.:
+-----------------------+------------------------+
| IN ENGLAND. | IN SCOTLAND. |
+-----------------------+------------------------+
| 1st Reserve Battalion.| 5th Reserve Battalion.|
| 3rd ” | 14th ” |
| 4th ” +------------------------+
| 6th ” | IN IRELAND. |
| 7th ” +------------------------+
| 8th ” | 2nd Reserve Battalion.|
| 9th ” | 13th ” |
| 10th ” | 16th ” |
| 11th ” | |
| 12th ” | |
| 15th ” | |
+-----------------------+------------------------+
_Under the Additional Force Acts in 1804._
In the year 1804, _Thirty-seven_ other Regiments (as shown in the
following list) were augmented by second battalions, in consequence
of having been appointed to receive men raised for limited service
in Great Britain and Ireland, under the _Additional Force Acts_
passed on the 29th of June, and 10th and 14th of July 1804, viz.:
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| IN ENGLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. |
+---------------------+----------------------+-------------------+
| 5th Foot | 25th Foot | 56th Foot |
| 6th ” | 31st ” | 59th ” |
| 7th ” | 32nd ” | 62nd ” |
| 8th ” | 36th ” | 63rd ” |
| 9th ” | 38th ” | 82nd ” |
| 10th ” | 40th ” | 83rd ” |
| 14th ” | 43rd ” | 90th ” |
| 15th ” | 45th ” | 96th ” late 2nd |
| 23rd ” | 50th ” | Battalion of |
| 24th ” | 52nd ” | 52nd Regiment. |
+---------------------+-----------+----------+-------------------+
| IN SCOTLAND. | IN IRELAND. |
| Under the Act passed on | Under the Act passed on |
| the 10th of July 1804. | 14th of July 1804. |
+---------------------------------+------------------------------+
| 1st Royal Regiment | 27th Regiment |
| 21st ” | 87th ” |
| 71st ” | 88th ” |
| 72nd ” | 89th ” |
| 91st ” | |
+---------------------------------+------------------------------+
List of the _Fifty-six_ regiments which were appointed to receive
men, raised for limited service in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
under the _Additional Force Acts_, passed in the year 1804,
including the _Nineteen_ regiments (marked thus *) which had been
augmented by _Second Battalions_ from the men raised under the
_Army of Reserve Acts_ passed in the previous year (1803), and
specifying the counties allotted to the several regiments.
_Adjutant-General’s Office,
Horse-Guards, 1804._
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| IN ENGLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Regiments.| Counties. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| *3rd | London City. |
| 5th | Sussex. |
| 6th | Lancaster. |
| 7th | York (West Riding). |
| 8th | York (North Riding). |
| 9th | Dorset and Somerset. |
| 10th | Essex. |
| 14th | Bedford, Buckingham, Northampton. |
| 15th | York (East Riding). |
| 23rd | Anglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, & Merioneth. |
| 24th | Warwick. |
| 25th | Cumberland, Westmoreland. |
| *28th | Devon. |
| *30th | Huntingdon, Leicester, Cambridge. |
| 31st | Chester. |
| 32nd | Cornwall. |
| 36th | Durham. |
| 38th | Stafford. |
| *39th | Salop. |
| 40th | Dorset & Somerset, late Second Battalion of 52nd |
| | Regiment. |
| 43rd | Worcester. |
| 45th | Nottingham & Rutland. |
| *47th | Norfolk. |
| *48th | Lancaster. |
| 50th | Gloucester. |
| 52nd | Hertford, Oxford, & Bucks. |
| *53rd | York (West Riding). |
| 56th | Surrey. |
| *57th | Kent, & the Cinque Ports. |
| 59th | Derby. |
| *61st | Northumberland. |
| 62nd | Wilts. |
| 63rd | Suffolk. |
| *66th | Hants, & the Isle of Wight. |
| *69th | Lincoln. |
| *81st | Hereford, Montgomery, & Radnor. |
| 82nd | Tower Hamlets. |
| 83rd | Middlesex. |
| 90th | Monmouth, Glamorgan, & Brecknock. |
| 96th | Cardigan, Carmarthen, & Pembroke. |
| |
| FORTY REGIMENTS. |
| |
+==================================================================+
| IN SCOTLAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 10th of July 1804. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Regiments.| Counties. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| 1st | Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, |
| Royal | & Roxburgh. |
| 21st | Renfrew & Ayr. |
| *26th | Edinburgh City & County, Linlithgow, Peebles, |
| | Berwick, & Haddington. |
| *42nd | Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, & Caithness. |
| 71st | Stirling, Dumbarton, Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, |
| | Kincardine, & Forfar. |
| 72nd | Aberdeen. |
| 91st | Bute, Argyle, & Perth. |
| *92nd | Nairn, Elgin, Inverness, & Banff. |
| |
| EIGHT REGIMENTS. |
| |
+==================================================================+
| IN IRELAND. |
| Under the Act passed on the 14th of July 1804. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| Regiments.| Counties. |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------+
| *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. |
| 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. |
| *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, |
| | & Queen’s County. |
| *58th | Cork City & County, & Kerry. |
| *67th | Dublin City & County, Roscommon, |
| | Longford, & Meath. |
| 87th | Tipperary, Galway, & Clare. |
| 88th | Cavan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, & Mayo. |
| 89th | Wexford, Kilkenny, Waterford, & Limerick City |
| | & County. |
| *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. |
| 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. |
| *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, |
| | & Queen’s County. |
| |
| EIGHT REGIMENTS. |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The ERRATA section was printed on a page with extraneous text at the
top and bottom (printer’s error). This has been removed.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Eight occurrences of ‘Guadaloupe’ have been changed to ‘Guadeloupe’.
Pg ix: ‘Passage of the _Niver_’ replaced by ‘Passage of the _Nive_’.
Pg 24: ‘but in conquence’ replaced by ‘but in consequence’.
Pg 48: Sidenote ‘1810. 2nd Batt.’ replaced by ‘1810. 1st Batt.’.
Pg 79: Missing Sidenote ‘1836.’ inserted before ‘In February 1836’.
Pg 121: ‘THIRTH-NINTH’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-NINTH’.