FOOTNOTES:
[6] This regiment has furnished several historians of its early services. The first is General Richard Stearne, who was nominated ensign of one of the independent companies in 1678, and colonel of the regiment in 1712: his narrative comprises a period of forty-one years,—viz. from 1678 to 1719, and is continued by an officer of the regiment to 1759: this work is in manuscript. The journal of Captain Parker, who entered the regiment as private in 1689, rose to the rank of captain, and retired in 1718, embraces the services of the regiment during that period, and was afterwards published by his son. General Richard Kane, who was many years an officer of the regiment, gives an account of its services, in the wars of King William III. and of Queen Anne, in a work on military discipline. Private Millner also published a journal of the campaigns from 1701 to 1712. No other regiment has produced so many historians of its services.
[7] Smollett.
[8] General Stearne, Captain Parker, Bishop Burnett, Smollett, &c.
[9] List of Irish Troops which came to England at the Revolution in 1688.
| Number of Officers and Soldiers. | |||
| Colonel Butler's dragoons, disbanded by the Prince of Orange | 635 | ||
| Battalion of Foot Guards ditto | 641 | ||
| Lord Forbes's Regiment, now the Eighteenth, or Royal Irish | 771 | ||
| Major-General Hamilton's regt., disbanded by the Prince of Orange | 771 | ||
| —— | |||
| Total | 2818 | ||
| Official Records. | |||
[10] General Stearne's Journal. A similar statement is also given in Captain Parker's Memoirs.
[11] Story's History of the War in Ireland.
[12] This list is from Story's History of the War in Ireland; the Journals of General Stearne and Captain Parker say six officers killed and eight wounded, but do not give their names.
[13] The Baron De Ghinkel was born in Guelderland: he commenced his military career in early life, and obtained the Order of the Elephant from the Prince of Orange for services in Flanders. He accompanied King William III to Ireland in 1690, and served under Marshal Duke Schomberg, and afterwards under Count Solms: he was appointed to succeed the latter in the chief command of the army in Ireland, and after the termination of the war in 1691, his Majesty conferred on him the honor of the Irish peerage with the title of Earl of Athlone and Viscount Aghrim: he died at Utrecht in 1705.