M DCCC XLVIII.
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT OF FOOT.
CONTENTS
OF THE
HISTORICAL RECORD.
| Page | ||
| Year | Introduction | |
| 1688 | Formation of the Regiment | [1] |
| —— | Establishment and Uniform | [2] |
| —— | Quartered at Stony Stratford | - |
| 1689 | Embarked for Holland | [3] |
| —— | Engaged at Walcourt | - |
| —— | Marched to Bruges | [4] |
| 1690 | Marched to Brussels | - |
| 1691 | Joined the Army in South Brabant | - |
| 1692 | Engaged at Steenkirk | - |
| —— | Colonel Hodges killed | [5] |
| 1693 | Engaged at Landen | - |
| —— | Quartered at Dendermond | - |
| 1694 | Joined the Army in the Field | [6] |
| —— | Returned to Dendermond | - |
| 1695 | Joined in the Siege and Capture of Namur | - |
| 1696 | Joined the Army of Brabant | - |
| 1697 | Treaty of Peace concluded at Ryswick | [7] |
| —— | Embarked for Ireland | - |
| 1701 | Preparations for recommencing War with France | - |
| —— | Re-embarked for Holland | - |
| —— | Reviewed on Breda-Heath by King William III. | - |
| 1702 | Proceeded to Rosendael | - |
| —— | Encamped at Cranenburg | - |
| —— | Siege of Kayserswerth | - |
| —— | Marched to Nimeguen | - |
| —— | War declared against France | [8] |
| —— | Earl of Marlborough assumed the command of the Army | - |
| —— | Siege of Venloo | - |
| —— | ———– Ruremonde | - |
| —— | ———– Stevenswaert | - |
| —— | Capture of the Citadel of Liege | - |
| —— | Returned to Holland | - |
| 1703 | Marched towards Maestricht | - |
| —— | Siege and Capture of Huy | - |
| —— | ————————– Limburg | - |
| —— | Returned to Holland | - |
| 1704 | Accompanied the Army to Germany | [9] |
| —— | Battle of Schellenberg | - |
| —— | Crossed the Danube | - |
| —— | Battle of Blenheim | - |
| —— | Marshal Tallard, and many officers and soldiers, made prisoners | - |
| —— | Returned to Holland | [10] |
| 1705 | Attacks on Helixem and Neer-Hespen | — |
| 1706 | Battle of Ramilies | [11] |
| —— | Surrender of principal towns of Brabant | — |
| —— | Marched into quarters at Ghent | — |
| 1708 | Returned to England to repel invasion by the Pretender | — |
| —— | Returned to Flanders | — |
| —— | Proceeded to Ghent | — |
| —— | Battle of Oudenarde | — |
| —— | Siege of Lisle | [12] |
| —— | Surrender of the Citadel of Lisle | — |
| 1709 | Siege and Capture of Tournay | [13] |
| 1709 | Battle of Malplaquet | — |
| —— | Siege and Surrender of Mons | [14] |
| —— | Marched into winter quarters at Ghent | — |
| 1710 | Engaged in forcing the French Lines at Pont-à-Vendin | — |
| —— | Siege and Surrender of Douay | — |
| —— | —————————– Bethune | — |
| —— | —————————– Aire and St. Venant | — |
| —— | Returned to Ghent | — |
| 1711 | Engaged in forcing the French Lines at Arleux | — |
| —— | Siege of Bouchain | — |
| 1712 | Joined the Army at Tournay | [15] |
| —— | Encamped at Cateau-Cambresis | — |
| —— | Surrender of Quesnoy | — |
| —— | Suspension of hostilities | — |
| —— | Detached to Dunkirk | — |
| 1714 | Embarked for Scotland | — |
| 1739 | War declared against Spain | [16] |
| 1740 | Encamped near Newbury under Lieutenant-General Wade | [17] |
| —— | Embarked as Marines | — |
| —— | Re-landed at Portsmouth | — |
| —— | A detachment embarked for the West Indies on an Expedition under General Lord Cathcart | — |
| 1741 | Expedition arrived at Jamaica | — |
| —— | Employed at Carthagena, in South America | — |
| —— | Detachment nearly annihilated by disease | — |
| 1742 | War of the Austrian Succession commenced | — |
| 1745 | Arrival in Scotland of Charles Edward, eldest son of the Pretender | — |
| 1746 | Regiment embarked for Scotland | [18] |
| 1748 | Termination of the War on the Continent | — |
| 1749 | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1751 | Royal Warrant issued on 1st July for regulating the Clothing, Colours, &c. of Regiments | — |
| 1755 | War re-commenced with France | [19] |
| 1763 | Peace of Fontainebleau took place | — |
| 1767 | Embarked for Florida in South America | [20] |
| 1775 | War commenced with North America | — |
| 1778 | War commenced with France, Spain, and Holland | [21] |
| 1779 | Regiment withdrew to Baton Rouge, and made prisoners of war by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana | — |
| —— | Engaged with French and American forces at Savannah and the State of Georgia | — |
| 1781 | Defended Pensacola against a Spanish force | [22] |
| 1782 | Returned to England from South America | [23] |
| —— | Authorized to assume the County Title of Buckinghamshire Regiment | — |
| —— | Termination of the American War | — |
| 1784 | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1790 | Embarked for Nova Scotia | [24] |
| 1791 | Removed to Jamaica | — |
| 1793 | Revolution broke out in France | — |
| —— | Republican principles extended to the French West India Settlements | — |
| —— | Detachment embarked from Jamaica for St. Domingo | — |
| 1795 | Engaged in the Maroon War in Jamaica | — |
| 1796 | Maroons reduced to submission, and removed from Jamaica | [25] |
| —— | Regiment returned to England | — |
| 1797 | Embarked for Scotland | — |
| 1799 | Returned to England | [26] |
| 1800 | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1802 | Peace of Amiens concluded | — |
| 1803 | War with France re-commenced | — |
| 1804 | Embarked for the West Indies | — |
| —— | Employed on an Expedition against Surinam | [27] |
| 1806 | Attacked by a large force of predatory Negroes at Surinam | — |
| 1809 | The County Title exchanged to the Bedfordshire instead of the Buckinghamshire Regiment | [28] |
| 1811 | Returned to England | — |
| 1813 | Embarked for Scotland | — |
| —— | Proceeded to Ireland | — |
| 1814 | War took place with the United States of America | [29] |
| —— | Embarked for Canada | — |
| 1815 | Returned to England, proceeded to Ostend, and marched to Paris | — |
| —— | Returned to England | — |
| 1816 | Embarked for Ireland | [30] |
| 1819 | Embarked for Ceylon | — |
| 1828 | Embarked for Bengal | [31] |
| 1841 | Embarked for England | [32] |
| 1843 | Proceeded to Ireland | [33] |
| 1846 | Six Service Companies embarked for Gibraltar | [34] |
| 1847 | Six Service Companies embarked for Corfu | — |
| 1848 | Four Depôt Companies embarked from Cork for Guernsey | — |
| —— | The Conclusion | — |