Historical Record of the Seventy-Second Regiment, or the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778, and of its subsequent services to 1848

by Richard Cannon

London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.
For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

[Pg xxviii]: Inserted —— and — for the date and page number, in the entry ‘Proceeded to Algoa Bay ...’.
[Pg 34]: Missing Sidenote ‘1797’ inserted at the start of the paragraph ‘As the island ...’.
[Pg 57]: Missing Sidenote ‘1841’ inserted at the start of the paragraph ‘In July, 1841, the ...’.
[Pg 68]: ‘which he besiged’ replaced by ‘which he besieged’.