Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755 and of its subsequent services to 1848

by Richard Cannon

FOOTNOTES:

[13] See Memoir of the services of Major-General Sir George R. Bingham, K.C.B., Appendix, [page 69].

[14] Lord Bathurst, then Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, stated in the House of Peers, that he had heard that General Bonaparte had spoken in terms of high approbation of the FIFTY-THIRD regiment at St. Helena, and added, "Whatsoever the General could say in praise of that corps was not adequate to its merits."

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