CONTENTS.


AnnoPage
1680The origin of the regiment[1]
——Designated the Second Tangier Regiment[3]
——Embarks for Tangier in Africa[5]
1684Returns to England[7]
——Designated Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York and Albany's regiment
1685Styled The Queen's regiment[8]
——Battle of Sedgemoor[9]
——Twelve new colours presented to the regiment[10]
1688The Revolution[12]
1690Embarks for Ireland[15]
——Battle of the Boyne
——Returns to England[16]
——Embarks with the forces under the Earl of Marlborough for Ireland[17]
——Sieges of Cork and Kinsale
1691Siege of Limerick[18]
——Returns to England[19]
1692Embarks for the Netherlands
——Battle of Steenkirk
1693Relief of Furnes[20]
——Battle of Landen[21]
1694Covering the siege of Huy[22]
1695Siege of Namur[23]
1696Returns to England[25]
1697Embarks for the Netherlands[26]
——Returns to England
1702Expedition to Cadiz and destruction of the French and Spanish shipping at Vigo[28]
1703Constituted a corps of Marines[30]
1703Embarks on board the fleet[32]
1704Attempt on Barcelona
——Capture of Gibraltar[33]
——Defence of Gibraltar[34]
1709}Returns to England[38]
1710}
1711Ceases to be a corps of Marines
——Expedition to Canada
1715Obtains the title of The King's Own[41]
1725Proceeds to Scotland[43]
1731Returns to England
1736Proceeds to Scotland
1737Returns to England
1744Embarks for the Netherlands[44]
1745Returns to England
——Marches to Scotland
1746Battle of Falkirk[45]
—————– Culloden[46]
1747Returns to England[48]
1751Colours, and regimental distinctions
1754Embarks for Minorca[49]
1756Defence of Fort St. Philip[50]
——Returns to England, and augmented to two battalions[53]
1758The second battalion constituted the sixty-second regiment
——Embarks for the West Indies
1759Attack on Martinico
——Capture of Guadaloupe[54]
1761———— Dominico[57]
1762———— Martinico[58]
—————— Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucie[59]
—————— The Havannah
1764Returns to England[60]
1768Proceeds to Scotland
1773Returns to England[60]
1774Embarks for North America
1775Actions at Concord and Lexington[62]
——Battle of Bunkers Hill[64]
1776Proceeds to Nova Scotia[65]
——————– Staten Island
——Capture of Long Island
——Proceeds to New York[66]
——Skirmishes at Pell's Point and White Plains
——Capture of Fort Washington[67]
1777Expedition to Danbury
——————– against Philadelphia[69]
——Action at Chad's Ford
—————– Germantown[70]
—————– White Marsh[71]
1778Retreat to New York[72]
——Proceeds to the West Indies
——Capture of St. Lucie[73]
1780Returns to England[74]
——Proceeds to Ireland
1787Embarks for Nova Scotia
1793Capture of Miquelon and St. Pierre[75]
1794Proceeds to Lower Canada
1797Returns to England—One transport captured by a French privateer[76]
1799Augmented to three battalions
——Embarks for Holland[77]
——Battle of Egmont-op-Zee[78]
——Returns to England[79]
1802Second and third battalions disbanded
1803Preparations to repel the French invasion[80]
1804A second battalion added to the regiment[88]
1805Embarks for Hanover[89]
1806Returns to England[90]
1807Expedition to Copenhagen
——Returns to England[91]
1808Embarks for Sweden[91]
——Returns to England
——Proceeds to Portugal[92]
——Advances into Spain
——Retreats to the coast
1809Battle of Corunna[93]
——Returns to England[94]
——Expedition to Walcheren[95]
1810Second battalion proceeds to Gibraltar
——First battalion proceeds to Portugal[96]
——Lines of Torres Vedras
1811Battle of Sabugal
——Skirmish near Barba del Puerco[97]
1812Covering the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo[98]
——Storming of Badajoz[99]
——Battle of Salamanca[105]
——Siege of Burgos[106]
——Skirmish near the Carion
1813Battle of Vittoria[108]
——Siege of St. Sebastian[109]
——Passage of the Bidassoa[112]
——Battle of the Nivelle[113]
——————— Nive
1814Blockade of Bayonne[114]
——Embarks for the West Indies[116]
——Expedition to the Chesapeake[117]
——Battle of Bladensburg[118]
——Capture of Washington[119]
——Expedition against Baltimore[121]
——Battle of Godly Wood
——Returns to the West Indies[123]
——Expedition against New Orleans[124]
1815Capture of Fort Bowyer[128]
——Returns to England
1815Embarks for Flanders[129]
——Battle of Waterloo
——Advances to Paris[130]
——Second battalion disbanded[131]
1816Forms part of the army of occupation in France
1818Returns to England[133]
1819Embarks for the West Indies
1826Returns to England[137]
——Embarks for Portugal[138]
1828Returns to England[139]
——Proceeds to Scotland
1829Embarks for Ireland
1830Returns to England
1831}Embarks by detachments for New South Wales[140]
1832}
1837}———————————– the East Indies
1838}
1839The Conclusion

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.
AnnoPage
1680Charles Earl of Plymouth[142]
——Piercy Kirke
1682Charles Trelawny[144]
1688Sir Charles Orby[146]
——Charles Trelawny
1692Henry Trelawny
1702William Seymour
1717Hon. Henry Berkeley[147]
1719Charles Cadogan
1734William Barrell[148]
1749Robert Rich
1756Alexander Duroure
1765Hon. Robert Brudenell[149]
1768Studholme Hodgson
1782John Burgoyne[150]
1792George Morrison[151]
1799John Earl of Chatham[152]
1835John Hodgson

LIST OF PLATES.
The Regimental Colours to follow the Regimental title page.
The landing at Gibraltar, to facepage [34]
Fourth (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot, to facepage [141]

Colours of the 4th Regiment of Foot.