APPENDIX.

Troops in South America in 1806-7.
Nos.
embarked.		Place and Date of Embarkation.Place and Date of Arrival.
Royal Artillery and
Royal Engineers.		439
47th Foot, 1st batt.803At Cork,April 91806.At Monte Video,Jan. 161807.
71st Foot, 1st batt.805 Cape Good Hope,12” Buenos Ayres,June 251806.
38th Foot, 1st batt.737do.Aug.1806.do.Jan. 161807.
20th Lt. Drags., 4 troops.204do.do.” Monte Video,16”
21st Lt. Drags., 2 troops.125do.do.”do.16”
87th Foot, 1st batt.801 Plymouth,Sep. 121806.do.16”
95th (Rifles), 2nd batt. 3 comps.230do.13”do.16”
40th Foot, 1st batt.1000 Portsmouth,16”do.16”
45th Foot, 1st batt.888do.12” Buenos Ayres,June1807.
88th Foot, 1st batt.798do.20” Rio de la Plata,””
36th Foot, 1st batt.825do.22” Buenos Ayres,””
95th (Rifles), 1st batt. 5 comps.401 Falmouth,13” Rio de la Plata,””
17th Lt. Drags., 8 troops.628 Portsmouth,27” Monte Video,Jan. 161807.
5th Foot, 1st batt.926do.Oct. 9” Buenos Ayres,June1807.
9th Lt. Drags., 8 troops.632do.1” Monte Video,March 71807.
6th Dragoon Guards, 4 trps.298do.9” Rio de la Plata,June”
89th Foot, 1st batt.947do.Feb. 231807. 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.
Under the Act passed on the 6th of July 1803.		In Scotland.
Under the Act passed on the 6th of July 1803.		In Ireland.
Under the Act passed on the 11th of July 1803.
3rd Reg.53rd Reg.26th Regiment18th 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.
1stReserve Battalion 9thReserve Battalion 5thReserve Battalion
14th”
3rd”10th”
4th”11th”In Ireland.
6th”12th”
2ndReserve Battalion
7th”15th”13th”
16th”
8th”

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 Foot25th Foot56th Foot
6th ”31st ”59th ”
7th ”32nd ”62nd ”
8th ”36th ”63rd ”
9th ”38th ”82nd ”
10th ”40th ”83rd ”
14th ”43rd ”90th ”
15th ”45th ”96th ” late 2nd
Battalion of
23rd ”50th ”52nd Regiment.
24th ”52nd ”
In Scotland.
Under the Act passed on the 10th of July 1804.		In Ireland.
Under the Act passed on the 14th of July 1804.
1st Royal Regiment27th 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.Regiments.Counties.
*3rdLondon City.43rdWorcester.
5thSussex.45thNottingham & Rutland.
6thLancaster.*47thNorfolk.
7thYork (West Riding).*48thLancaster.
8thYork (North Riding).50thGloucester.
9thDorset and Somerset.52ndHertford, Oxford, & Bucks.
10thEssex.*53rdYork (West Riding).
14thBedford, Buckingham, Northampton.56thSurrey.
15thYork (East Riding).*57thKent, & the Cinque Ports.
23rdAnglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, & Merioneth.59thDerby.
24thWarwick.*61stNorthumberland.
25thCumberland, Westmoreland.62ndWilts.
*28thDevon.63rdSuffolk.
*30thHuntingdon, Leicester, Cambridge.*66thHants, & the Isle of Wight.
31stChester.*69thLincoln.
32ndCornwall.*81stHereford, Montgomery, & Radnor.
36thDurham.82ndTower Hamlets.
38thStafford.83rdMiddlesex.
*39thSalop.90thMonmouth, Glamorgan, & Brecknock.
40thDorset & Somerset, late Second Battalion of 52nd Regiment.96thCardigan, Carmarthen, & Pembroke.
FORTY REGIMENTS.

In Scotland.
Under the Act passed on the 10th of July 1804.		In Ireland.
Under the Act passed on the 14th of July 1804.
Regiments.Counties.Regiments.Counties.
1st
Royal		Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, & Roxburghe.*18thDonegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim.
21stRenfrew & Ayr.27thFermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down.
*26thEdinburgh City & County, Linlithgow, Peebles, Berwick, & Haddington.*44thKildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, & Queen’s County.
*42ndRoss, Cromarty, Sutherland, & Caithness.*58thCork City & County, & Kerry.
71stStirling, Dumbarton, Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, Kincardine, & Forfar.*67thDublin City & County, Roscommon, Longford, & Meath. xx
72ndAberdeen.87thTipperary, Galway, & Clare.
91stBute, Argyle, & Perth.88thCavan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, & Mayo.
*92ndNairn, Elgin, Inverness, & Banff.89thWexford, Kilkenny, Waterford, & Limerick City & County.
EIGHT REGIMENTS.EIGHT REGIMENTS.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Table of Contents [Pg viii:] ‘the word “Ava” on’ replaced by ‘the word “Ava” on’.
[Pg 11:] ‘R. Mc. Crea.’ replaced by ‘R. McCrea.’.
[Pg 35:] ‘unqualified appprobation’ replaced by ‘unqualified approbation’.
[Pg 39:] separate sidenotes for 1844, 1845, 1846 and 1847 have been replaced by one sidenote ‘1844 to 1847’.
[Pg 62:] ‘Your have sent me’ replaced by ‘You have sent me’.
[Pg 78:] ‘fith regiment was’ replaced by ‘fifth regiment was’.
[Pg 91:] some confusing brackets and dittos (”) have been removed from this table.
[Pg 96:] ‘in Jauuary 1810’ replaced by ‘in January 1810’.
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