Historical record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842.

by Richard Cannon

CONTENTS.

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Year		Page
1793	The Regiment raised, and styled Cuyler’s Shropshire Volunteers	[9]
1794	Names of the Officers	[10]
——	Embarks for Ireland	[11]
——	Styled the Eighty-Sixth Regiment, or the Shropshire Volunteers	—
——	Returns to England	—
1795	Serves on board the fleet as Marines	[12]
1796	Embarks for the Cape of Good Hope	[13]
1799	Proceeds to India	—
1801	Six Companies proceed to Egypt	[14]
——	Passage of the Desert	—
——	Capture of Cairo and Alexandria	[18]
1802	Four Companies in India,—Capture of Kareah and Tarrapore	[20]
——	Six Companies return from Egypt to India	[21]
——	Capture of Barodara	[22]
1803	———— Kirrella,—skirmish near Copperbund	[23]
——	———— Keira	[24]
——	———— Baroach	[25]
——	———— Powanghur	[28]
——	Skirmish near Lunawarrah	[29]
——	Capture of Dhowd	[30]
1804	Advances to Indore	[31]
——	Disastrous Retreat to Ongein	—
——	Capture of Inglehur	[32]
1805	Proceeds to Bhurtpore	[32]
——	Storms one of the out-works	[33]
——	Attacks a large bastion	[34]
——	Siege raised,—proceeds to Muttra	[35]
——	Pursues the forces of Holkar	—
1806	Returns to Bombay	[36]
——	Stationed at Goa	—
——	Obtains the title of the Eighty-Sixth, or Leinster Regiment of Foot	[37]
1809	Declaration of the Portuguese Viceroy, at Goa	—
1810	Expedition against the Island of Bourbon	[38]
——	Services of a detachment on board the Africaine frigate	[44]
1811	Removed to the Isle of France	[45]
1812	Returns to India	—
——	Styled the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment	[46]
1814	A second battalion added to the regiment	[47]
——	Ditto disbanded	—
1816	} Serves against the Pindarees	[48]
1817
1817	Insurrection at Hyderabad	—
1818	Serves against the Pindarees	[49]
——	Marches for Madras, in order to embark for England	—
——	Flank Companies proceed to the Island of Ceylon	[50]
——	Services against the Kandians	—
1819	Returns to Madras	[55]
——	General Orders on leaving India	[56]
——	Arrives in England	[57]
1821	Embarks for Ireland	—
1827	Service Companies embark for the West Indies	[59]
1837	——— ———— return to England	[62]
1842	The Conclusion	[63]

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SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.

Year		Page
1793	Cornelius Cuyler	[64]
1794	Russell Manners	[66]
1795	William Grinfield	[67]
1804	Sir James Henry Craig, K.B.	[68]
1806	Sir Charles Ross, Baronet	—
1810	The Honorable Francis Needham	[69]
1832	William George Lord Harris	[71]
1835	The Honorable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.H.	—
1836	James Watson	[72]
1837	Sir Arthur Brooke, K.C.B.	—

EIGHT-SIXTH (THE ROYAL COUNTY DOWN) REGIMENT OF FOOT.