[20] The following was the disposition of the forces under the command of the Duke of Ormond, upon their arrival in England from Spain, in November, 1702, viz.—
| Lloyd's 3rd Dragoons (detachment) | Portsmouth. | ||
| Foot Guards, 1st, and Coldstream | Gravesend and | ||
| Chatham. | |||
| Sir H. Bellasis' | 2nd | Foot | Portsmouth. |
| Churchill's | 3rd | " | Chatham. |
| Seymour's | 4th | " | Plymouth. |
| Columbine's | 6th | " | Portsmouth. |
| Royal Fusileers | 7th | " | Tilbury. |
| Villiers's (Marines) | 31st | " | Plymouth. |
| Fox's (Marines) | 32nd | " | Portsmouth. |
| Lord Shannon's | Chatham. | ||
[21] The Queen Dowager Catherine was born at Villa Vicosa on the 14th of November, 1638, being daughter of Don Juan XVII., then Duke of Braganza, (afterwards King of Portugal,) and only sister of Don Alphonso XVII., and Don Pedro, afterwards King of Portugal. Her marriage with Charles II., King of England, was solemnised in Portugal, the Earl of Sandwich being proxy for King Charles on the 23rd of April, 1662. She embarked for England, and arrived at Portsmouth on the 14th of May (O.S.), and was married to the King by Doctor Gilbert Sheldon, the Bishop of London, on the 21st of the same month.
[22] David, first Earl of Portmore, K.T., was son and heir of Sir Alexander Robertson, Bart., of Strowan, in the county of Perth, who assumed the name of Colyear, and who was Colonel of one of the regiments of the Scots' Brigade in the service of Holland.
David Colyear engaged as a volunteer with the Dutch forces under the Prince of Orange, in 1674, and came to England with his Highness at the Revolution in 1688. He served, with great reputation, in Ireland and in Flanders, and was created Baron Portmore and Blackness in 1699. In 1703 he was created Baron Colyear, Viscount Milsington, and Earl of Portmore. He was promoted to the rank of General in 1710; in the same year he was appointed Commander of the Forces in Scotland, and was allowed to sell his colonelcy of the Queen's Regiment. He was appointed Governor of Gibraltar in 1713, and in 1714 he succeeded the Earl of Stair as Colonel of the Second, or Royal North British Dragoons. He died at Gibraltar, on the 2nd of January, 1730.
[23] Sir Charles Montague was the son of Brigadier-General Edward Montague, Colonel of the Eleventh Foot, and Governor of Hull, nephew of George, second Earl of Halifax, and great nephew to the celebrated minister Halifax. He had an elder brother, Edward, killed at the battle of Fontenoy, being then Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-first Foot. Sir Charles attained the rank of Colonel in the army on the 30th of November, 1755; Major-General on the 25th of June, 1759; and Lieutenant-General on the 19th of January, 1761. He died on the 1st of August, 1777.
[24] Lieut.-General Daniel Jones was promoted to the Colonelcy of the Queen's Royal from the Third Foot Guards, in which regiment he had attained the rank of Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel on the 7th of November, 1759, and Major on the 18th of April, 1770. His commissions as a general officer were, Major-General on the 28th of August, 1777, and Lieutenant-General on the 19th of July, 1779.
[25] Major-General Alexander Stewart attained the rank of Captain in the Thirty-seventh Foot in 1761; and was promoted to be Major of the same regiment on the 9th of August, 1771. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Third Foot on the 7th of July, 1775; Colonel in the army on the 16th of May, 1780; and Major-General on the 28th of April, 1790. In the campaigns of 1794, in Flanders, he commanded the First Brigade of British infantry, from which he retired in consequence of ill health, brought on by severe fatigue about a month previous to his death. General Stewart was of Afton, in Wigtonshire, and Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbright.
[26] Lieutenant Charles Turner was promoted to a company in the African Colonial Corps, on the 8th of June, 1803; to a Majority of the same corps on the 18th of April, 1804; and to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the West Indian Rangers, on the 28th of May, 1807. He joined the army in Portugal, under Marshal Sir William Carr Beresford, K.B., and lost his left arm in the repulse of a sortie of the French from Badajoz, on the 10th of May, 1811, while in command of the 17th Portuguese Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General on the 19th of July, 1821; and was appointed Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in Africa, on the 24th of June, 1824; he died at Sierra Leone on the 7th of March, 1826.
[27] Lieutenant Derisley was killed while on piquet before the Fort St. Julien, Rosetta; and Ensign Allman was wounded in the action of the 21st of March. Besides those who died whilst the regiment was in Egypt, there were 56 left sick in that country on its embarkation, 29 of whom fell a sacrifice to disease.