FOOTNOTES:
[1] Captain Basil exchanged to the Fifteenth Light Dragoons, and was killed at Emsdorf on the 16th of July, 1760.
[2] This anecdote of the corps was related by His Majesty King William IV., who, when Prince William Henry, reviewed the regiment while it was stationed at New York, and, in 1833, related at his own table some particulars respecting its services in America.
[3] Earl Cornwallis's despatch.
[4] During the action the American Colonel Washington called out, "Where is now the boasting Tarleton?" Cornet Patterson of the Seventeenth was riding up to attack him, and was shot by Washington's orderly Trumpeter. Anecdote by Lieut.-General Sir Evan Lloyd, who served with the regiment in America.
[5] Statement of Lieut.-General Sir Evan Lloyd.
[6] Serjeant Stephenson was offered a commission in an infantry corps, as a reward for his conduct on this occasion, which he declined at the recommendation of several officers, who hoped to be able to procure him promotion in his own regiment; but they either fell victims to the climate or were removed to other corps, and he died, on service with his regiment at Bombay, in 1813.
[7] Statement of Lieut.-General Sir Evan Lloyd.
[8] In November, 1817, Lieut.-Colonel William Carden died at the cantonments of the regiment at Ruttapore, near Kaira, where a handsome monument was erected with the following inscription:—
Here are deposited the remains of
Lieut.-Colonel W. Carden,
late of H. M. 17th Dragoons, and Commanding Officer
on the N. D. Guzerat; who died at this place
on the 13th of November, 1817,
aged 48 years.
THE OFFICERS OF HIS REGIMENT HAVE ERECTED THIS MONUMENT, NOT MERELY TO RECORD HIS EMINENCE AS A SOLDIER, BUT AS A TRIBUTE OF THEIR AFFECTIONATE REGARD TO HIS MEMORY, AND TO EXPRESS THE DEEP REGRET WHICH THE LOSS OF THE NUMEROUS VIRTUES HE POSSESSED HAS OCCASIONED.
A friend to truth; in soul sincere:
In action faithful, and in honour clear.