1851.
FOOTNOTES:
[6] The ninety-first, ninety-second, ninety-third, ninety-fourth, ninety-fifth, ninety-sixth, ninety-seventh, and ninety-ninth regiments, which were directed to be raised at the commencement of the war with France in 1793, were afterwards disbanded, so that the ninety-eighth was numbered the ninety-first, and the Hundredth became the NINETY-SECOND regiment.
[7] Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B., was promoted to the local rank of General on the Continent of Europe, on the 13th of August 1799.
[8] Colonel the Marquis of Huntly commanded the regiment in this memorable charge, which began and decided the action at Egmont-op-Zee: all the rest was a pursuit. The Marquis of Huntly, and Major-General (afterwards Sir John) Moore, were wounded, and the command of the regiment devolved upon Lieut.-Colonel Erskine.
Major-General Moore was carried to the surgeon by two soldiers of the regiment; and a few years afterwards, when writing for a drawing of the uniform, for the purpose of having a soldier of the NINETY-SECOND as one of the supporters to his coat of arms, on being made a Knight of the Bath, he mentioned the circumstance of their having remarked—“There is the General, we must take him to the doctor:” and then added, “We can do no more; we must join the lads, for every man is wanted!!” Major-General Moore, on his recovery, inquired for those men in order to reward them, and offered twenty pounds, but no one claimed it; and he remarked, that “it was a noble trait of the regiment, that no men in its ranks came forward to personate the parties, or to claim the reward.”—It was, therefore, supposed they were killed.
It may be observed, that this is one of the few instances on record of crossing bayonets by large bodies. Even the supernumerary rank of the NINETY-SECOND on this occasion was bayoneted; among the number Lieutenant McCardy was killed, and Lieutenant Donald McDonald (who afterwards succeeded to the command of the regiment at Waterloo) received three bayonet wounds.
[9] List of regiments which served in Egypt in 1801, is inserted in the Appendix, [ page 139].
[10] Vide General Order, dated Horse Guards, 16th of May, 1801, and List of regiments employed in Egypt, inserted in [ pages 137], &c. of the Appendix.