Historical Record of the Sixty-first, or the South Gloucestershire Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

by Richard Cannon

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The roman page numbering at the front of the book goes from iii to viii, then from v to viii again; this has not been changed.

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

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

[Pg vi]: page number ‘53’ added to the ‘Conclusion’ entry.
[Pg 11]: ‘Guadaloupe’ replaced by ‘Guadeloupe’.
[Pg 12]: ‘Sidenote: 1771’ inserted before ‘Three years ...’
(to be consistent with the Table of Contents entry for 1771).
[Pg 15]: ‘Guadaloupe’ replaced by ‘Guadeloupe’.
[Pg 22]: ‘the troop under’ replaced by ‘the troops under’.
[Pg 49]: ‘preparatorily to its’ replaced by ‘preparatory to its’.
[Pg 56]: ‘Guadaloupe’ replaced by ‘Guadeloupe’.