1815, Colonel Reynell commanded the first battalion of the
Seventy-first regiment, and was wounded in the foot on that
occasion. He afterwards succeeded to the command of Major-General
Adam’s brigade, consisting of the first battalions of the
Fifty-second and Seventy-first, with six companies of the second,
and two companies of the third battalion of the Ninety-fifth
regiment, in consequence of that officer being wounded. Colonel
Reynell commanded the light brigade in the several operations that
took place on the route to Paris, and entered that capital at the
head of the brigade on the 7th of July 1815, and encamped with it
in the _Champs Elysées_, being the only British troops quartered
within the barriers. In this year he was appointed a Companion
of the Order of the Bath, and received the Cross of a Knight of
the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, also a Cross of the
fourth class of the Russian Military Order of St. George.
Colonel Reynell remained with the “_Army of Occupation_” in France
until October 1818, when, after a grand review of the united
British, Danish, and Russian contingents at Valenciennes, the
Seventy-first marched to Calais, and embarked for England. Colonel
Reynell continued in command of the regiment until the 12th of
August 1819, the date of his promotion to the rank of Major-General.
In April 1820 Major-General Reynell was suddenly ordered to proceed
to Glasgow, having been appointed to the staff of North Britain
as a Major-General, in which country he remained until March
1821, when, in consequence of the tranquillity of Scotland, the
extra general officer was discontinued. Immediately after he was
appointed to the staff of the East Indies, and directed to proceed
to Bombay, for which presidency he embarked in September following,
and where he arrived in March 1822. After remaining there a
month, Major-General Reynell was removed to the staff of the
Bengal Presidency, by order of the Marquis of Hastings. In August
Major-General Reynell proceeded up the Ganges, and took the command
of the Meerut division on the 3rd of December 1822.
The next operation of importance in which Major-General Reynell
was engaged was the siege of _Bhurtpore_. Early in December 1825
a large force had been assembled for this purpose, to the command
of which he had been appointed, when, just as the troops were
about to move into the Bhurtpore states, General Lord Combermere,
the new Commander-in-Chief in India, arrived from England, and
Major-General Reynell was then appointed to command the first
division of infantry. He commanded that division during the
siege, and directed the movements of the column of assault at the
north-east angle on the 18th of January 1826, when the place was
carried, and the citadel surrendered a few hours after. For this
service he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath, as well as
honored with the thanks of both Houses of Parliament.
Major-General Sir Thomas Reynell succeeded to the baronetcy upon
the decease of his brother, Sir Richard Littleton Reynell in
September 1829; and on the 30th of January 1832 was appointed by
His Majesty King William IV. to be Colonel of the Ninety-ninth
regiment, from which he was removed to the EIGHTY-SEVENTH Royal
Irish Fusiliers on the 15th of August 1834. On the 10th of January
1837 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and on
the 14th of June 1839 was appointed a member of the Consolidated
Board of General Officers, for the inspection and regulation of the
clothing of the army. On the 15th of March 1841 he was appointed
by Her Majesty to the Colonelcy of the Seventy-first regiment.
Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., K.C.B., died at Avisford,
near Arundel, on the 10th of February 1848.
HUGH VISCOUNT GOUGH, G.C.B.,
_Appointed from the Ninety-ninth regiment on the 15th of March
1841_.
APPENDIX.
_Troops in South America in 1806-7._
+------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
| | Nos. embarked. | Place and Date of Embarkation. |
| +---------+------+--------------------------------+
| Royal Artillery } | | |
| and Royal } | 439 | |
| Engineers } | | |
| 47th Foot, 1st batt. | 803 | At Cork, April 9 1806. |
| 71st Foot, 1st batt. | 805 | ” Cape Good Hope, 12 ” |
| 38th Foot, 1st batt. | 737 | ” do. Aug. 1806. |
| 20th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 4 troops. } | 204 | ” do. do. ” |
| 21st Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 2 troops. } | 125 | ” do. do. ” |
| 87th Foot, 1st batt. | 801 | ” Plymouth, Sep. 12 1806. |
| 95th (Rifles), 2nd } | | |
| batt. 3 comps. } | 230 | ” do. 13 ” |
| 40th Foot, 1st batt. | 1000 | ” Portsmouth, 16 ” |
| 45th Foot, 1st batt. | 888 | ” do. 12 ” |
| 88th Foot, 1st batt. | 798 | ” do. 20 ” |
| 36th Foot, 1st batt. | 825 | ” do. 22 ” |
| 95th (Rifles), 1st } | | |
| batt. 5 comps. } | 401 | ” Falmouth, 13 ” |
| 17th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 8 troops. } | 628 | ” Portsmouth, 27 ” |
| 5th Foot, 1st batt. | 926 | ” do. Oct. 9 ” |
| 9th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 8 troops. } | 632 | ” do. 1 ” |
| 6th Dragoon } | | |
| Guards, 4 trps. } | 298 | ” do. 9 ” |
| 89th Foot, 1st batt. | 947 | ” do. Feb. 23 1807. |
| 54th Foot, detach. | 15 | |
| +------+ |
| Total 11,502 | |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------------+
+------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
| | Nos. embarked. | Place and Date of Arrival. |
| +---------+------+--------------------------------+
| Royal Artillery } | | |
| and Royal } | 439 | |
| Engineers } | | |
| 47th Foot, 1st batt. | 803 | At Monte Video, Jan. 16 1807. |
| 71st Foot, 1st batt. | 805 | ” Buenos Ayres, June 25 1806. |
| 38th Foot, 1st batt. | 737 | ” do. Jan. 16 1807. |
| 20th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 4 troops. } | 204 | ” Monte Video, 16 ” |
| 21st Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 2 troops. } | 125 | ” do. 16 ” |
| 87th Foot, 1st batt. | 801 | ” do. 16 ” |
| 95th (Rifles), 2nd } | | |
| batt. 3 comps. } | 230 | ” do. 16 ” |
| 40th Foot, 1st batt. | 1000 | ” do. 16 ” |
| 45th Foot, 1st batt. | 888 | ” Buenos Ayres, June 1807. |
| 88th Foot, 1st batt. | 798 | ” Rio de la Plata, ” |
| 36th Foot, 1st batt. | 825 | ” Buenos Ayres, ” |
| 95th (Rifles), 1st } | | |
| batt. 5 comps. } | 401 | ” Rio de la Plata, ” |
| 17th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 8 troops. } | 628 | ” Monte Video, Jan. 16 1807. |
| 5th Foot, 1st batt. | 926 | ” Buenos Ayres, June 1807. |
| 9th Lt. Drags., } | | |
| 8 troops. } | 632 | ” Monte Video, March 7 1807. |
| 6th Dragoon } | | |
| Guards, 4 trps. } | 298 | ” Rio de la Plata, June ” |
| 89th Foot, 1st batt. | 947 | ” Monte Video, do. ” |
| 54th Foot, detach. | 15 | |
| +------+ |
| Total 11,502 | |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------------+
_Memoir of the Services of Lieut.-General Sir Charles William
Doyle, C.B., G.C.H., and K.C., formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the_
EIGHTY-SEVENTH _regiment_.
This officer entered the army on the 28th of April 1783, as Ensign
in the One hundred and fifth regiment, which was disbanded in the
following year, and on the 12th of February 1793, was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant in the Fifty-ninth regiment, from which he
was removed to the Fourteenth foot on the 7th of March following,
and to the Ninety-first regiment on the 30th of October of the same
year. Lieutenant Doyle served with the Fourteenth regiment until
the beginning of 1794, in Holland and Brabant. In the assault of
the heights of Famars in 1793 he acted as Brigade-Major to the
brigade under Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, whose thanks
he received upon the field of battle for his conduct in storming
the redoubts upon the heights over Valenciennes. During the siege
of that city Lieutenant Doyle was employed as orderly officer in
attendance upon the Austrian generals. While on service in the
trenches he received a contusion in the head from the splinter of
a shell. The Fourteenth regiment having suffered considerably,
was left to garrison Courtray. He obtained permission to join the
army, and served the remainder of the campaign as Aide-de-camp to
Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, by whom he was sent to the
Duke of York with the account of the affair at Lannoi, in which he
received a contusion in the hand, and was again thanked upon the
field of battle by Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby. On the 21st
of June 1794, Lieutenant Doyle was promoted from the Ninety-first,
in which he had acted as Adjutant, to the Captain-Lieutenancy
and Adjutancy of the One hundred and eighth regiment; proceeded
to Gibraltar, where, upon that corps being drafted, he was
appointed Aide-de-camp to the governor of that fortress. On the
3rd of September 1795, he was removed to the EIGHTY-SEVENTH,
as Captain-Lieutenant and Adjutant, and embarked in 1796 as
Brigade-Major to the expedition against the Texel, under his uncle
Brigadier-General John Doyle. In that year Captain Doyle proceeded
to the West Indies in the same capacity, but finding that his
regiment was destined to attack Porto Rico, he resigned his staff
situation, accompanied the EIGHTY-SEVENTH, and received the thanks
of Sir Ralph Abercromby for his conduct in covering the retreat
of the army in April 1797, and was appointed his Aide-de-camp.
In 1798 he received the thanks of the Governor of Barbadoes, for
having driven off the coast a large French privateer. Captain Doyle
proceeded as Brigade-Major under General Sir Ralph Abercromby with
the expedition for the attack of Cadiz in 1800; sailed from Minorca
for the relief of Genoa, and from Malta proceeded to Egypt, where
he served upon the staff of the army during the campaign. While
suffering from illness at Rosetta, in consequence of a wound he had
received in the battle of the 21st of March 1801, near Alexandria,
he obtained precise and important information regarding the
strength of the garrison and the state of the works at Cairo, which
led to the operations that resulted in the surrender of the place
without a shot being fired. For this service he received the warm
thanks of Lieut.-General Hutchinson, who assumed the command upon
the death of General Abercromby, and also the approbation of His
Royal Highness the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief.
In 1803 Captain Doyle returned from the Mediterranean, was
appointed Major of Brigade under Lieut.-General Sir James Henry
Craig, K.B., by whom he was employed, with other staff officers, to
make separate reports of the best mode of defence of Hosely Bay;
his plan was highly approved by Sir James Craig, who recommended
him to the Commander-in-Chief, and he was promoted to the rank
of Major of the second battalion of the Sixty-first regiment, on
the 9th of July 1803. In the following year Major Doyle commanded
a corps composed of light infantry companies, and of regiments
of volunteers, formed for the defence of the northern coasts of
England by Lieut.-General Sir Hew Dalrymple, whose warm thanks he
received. At the close of 1804 he was appointed by General Sir
David Dundas, K.B., to command a corps of light infantry at Barham
Downs, where he received the thanks of the Adjutant-General for
his system of light infantry practice, and about the same time
his Military Catechism was published. He was appointed Assistant
Quartermaster-General at Guernsey, and on the 22nd of August 1805
was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH
regiment. He received the thanks of the Governor of Plymouth, of
the Royal Court of Guernsey, and of the Commander-in-Chief, for the
exemplary conduct of both battalions of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH, each
having been under his command. In 1808 he was sent into Spain by
His Majesty’s Government as a Military Commissioner.
The rank of Major-General in the Spanish armies was Conferred
upon him, and a regiment was raised and named “Regiment of Doyle”
for his conduct in an affair at Olite. A badge of honor (to be
worn on the left arm) was conferred upon him in 1809 for assuming
the command of, and saving the city of Tortosa, threatened with
insurrection by the inhabitants, whilst the French were at
the gates of the town. The motto, “_The Reward of Enthusiasm,
Efficiency, and Valour_.” The arms of this city were engrafted
upon his family arms, by order of the Government of Spain at that
period, and ratified by King Ferdinand. He was appointed a Knight
of the Order of Charles III., for his services in the years 1808-9,
and his conduct reported by the Spanish to the British Government.
In 1809 he was wounded at the attack of the Col de Balaguer. A
medal was struck by the Spanish Government, specially to mark
its approbation of the conduct of the General, when he took by
assault the tower and battery of Bagur upon the 10th of September
1810, and assisted in the operations against, and the taking the
Castle of Palamos upon the 14th of September. The motto, “_Spanish
Gratitude to British Intrepidity_.” A medal was presented to him
at the close of the campaign. The motto, “_For distinguished
Valour_,” and he was recommended by the Duke of Wellington to be
appointed Colonel of a regiment to be raised in Catalonia, and in
1811 obtained the Cross of Distinction for the defence of Tarragona
in 1811, where he was wounded; likewise received the Cross of
Distinction for the three principal battles in Catalonia, and also
the rank of Lieut.-General in the Spanish armies, for his services
in Catalonia, Arragon, and Valencia, conferred by the Government
at that period, and ratified by King Ferdinand: he was appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Reserve, raised and disciplined
at Cadiz during the siege, and was nominated Director of the
Establishment for Military Instruction.
The honor of knighthood was conferred upon him by the Prince
Regent in 1812, and he was appointed a Companion of the Order of
the Bath for the important services rendered by him in Spain. On
the 30th, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Charles Doyle was removed to the
Eighty-fourth regiment, and was placed on the half-pay of that
corps on the 25th of February 1819, and on the 12th of August
following was advanced to the rank of Major-General. On the 1st of
November 1819 he was appointed Colonel of the Tenth Royal Veteran
Battalion (since disbanded). Sir Charles Doyle, in addition to
the honors enumerated, had received the medal of the Order of the
Crescent conferred by the Grand Seignior for services in Egypt,
the Legion of Honor, and had been appointed a Knight Commander
of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, of which order he was
subsequently nominated a Knight Grand Cross. In 1825 Major-General
Sir Charles Doyle was appointed to the command of the South-western
District of Ireland, and in 1829 was appointed President of the
Board assembled at the War Office to investigate the services and
pensions of soldiers. On Jan. 10. 1837 he was promoted to the rank
of Lieut.-General.
Lieut.-General Sir Charles William Doyle died at Paris on the 25th
of October 1842, after a service of nearly sixty years in various
parts of the world.
_Memoir of the Services of Lieut.-Colonel Matthew Shawe, C.B., of
the_ EIGHTY-SEVENTH _regiment_.
Mr. Shawe was appointed an Ensign in the Twelfth foot on the 7th
of May 1799, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the
Seventy-fourth Highlanders on the 15th of November 1801, with which
regiment he served at the storming and capture of the important
fortress and town of Ahmednuggur on the 8th and 12th of August
1803; was wounded severely at the battle of Assaye on the 23rd
of September following, when the troops under Major-General the
Honorable Arthur Wellesley gained a victory over the combined army
of Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar. His next service was at the
battle of Argaum, on the 29th of November; afterwards at the siege
and storming of Gawilghur, on the 15th of December 1803: this was
a very strong fort, situated on a range of mountains between the
sources of the rivers Poorna and Taptee. Lieutenant Shawe served
with the Seventy-fourth at the siege of Chandore, a strong hill
fort in Candeish. This place surrendered on the 12th of October
1804. Lieutenant Shawe was also at the siege of Gaulnah in the
same month; on the 30th of October he was promoted to the rank of
Captain in the Seventy-fourth regiment.
Captain Shawe proceeded with his regiment to the Peninsula in
January 1810; was present at the battle of Busaco on the 27th of
September following; also at the affairs of Redinha on the 12th
of March 1811, Condeixa on the day following, Foz d’Aronce on the
15th of that month, Sabugal on the 3rd of April, and at the battle
of Fuentes d’Onor on the 3rd and 5th of May 1811; in the latter
action Captain Shawe was wounded. He was advanced to the brevet
rank of Major on the 30th of May 1811, and served at the siege and
storming of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812; the siege of Badajoz
and the escalading of Fort Picurina on the 25th of March. This
fort was assaulted and carried by five hundred men of the third
division, two hundred of whom were under Brevet-Major Shawe, who
was dangerously wounded; he however recovered, and received the
brevet of Lieut.-Colonel, which was dated the 27th of April 1812,
for his services on this occasion. He was also thanked in general
orders by Viscount Wellington for his conduct, received a medal,
and was subsequently nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Shawe was appointed Major in the Fifty-ninth
regiment on the 4th of June 1813, and was promoted Lieut.-Colonel
in the Eighty-fourth regiment on the 15th of April 1817, and was
removed to the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment on the 30th of April 1818,
the command of which devolved upon him in May 1823 in consequence
of the decease of Lieut.-Colonel Miller. Lieut.-Colonel Shawe died
on the 10th of April 1826, on board His Majesty’s sloop “_Slany_,”
while within one day’s sail of Penang, where he was buried with
all military honors. His life was sacrificed to his zeal for his
duty, his health being such that, on leaving Calcutta, his medical
advisers tried every argument to dissuade him from proceeding to
join his regiment, then employed in the Burmese territory.
_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 passed on | Under the Act | Under the Act |
| the 6th of July 1803. | passed on the | passed on the |
| | 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 9th Reserve Battalion| 5th Reserve Battalion|
| 3rd ” 10th ” | 14th ” |
| 4th ” 11th ” +-----------------------+
| 6th ” 12th ” | IN IRELAND. |
| 7th ” 15th ” +-----------------------+
| 8th ” | 2nd Reserve Battalion|
| | 13th ” |
| | 16th ” |
+---------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
_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. | the 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. 43rd Worcester. |
| 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 Royal | Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, |
| | Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, & |
| | Roxburghe. |
| 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. |
+-------------------------------------------------+