IN EGYPT IN THE YEAR 1801;
IN THE PENINSULA FROM 1812 TO 1814;
AND
AT THE BATTLE OF SOBRAON IN 1846.
CONTENTS.
| Year | Page | |
| 1685 | Formation of the Regiment | [1] |
| —— | Arms and Uniform | [2] |
| —— | Station and Establishment | [3] |
| —— | Earl of Bath, and other Officers appointed to Commissions | [4] |
| 1688 | Declaration of the Regiment, and of the garrison of Plymouth, in favour of King William III. and the Protestant cause | [5] |
| 1689 | Six companies detached to Jersey and Guernsey | [6] |
| 1690 | Embarked for Flanders | - |
| 1691 | Encamped at Anderlecht | - |
| 1692 | Encamped at Halle | [7] |
| —— | Battle of Steenkirk | - |
| —— | Engaged at Furnes and Dixmude | [8] |
| 1693 | The French lines at D'Otignies forced | [9] |
| —— | Battle of Landen | [10] |
| 1694 | Encamped at Ghent | — |
| 1695 | Attack on Fort Kenoque | [11] |
| —— | Siege of Namur | — |
| 1696 | Returned to England and occupied quarters in London; afterwards in Suffolk and Essex | [12] |
| 1697 | Re-embarked for the Netherlands, and joined the army at Brussels | — |
| —— | Treaty of Ryswick | — |
| —— | Returned to England | — |
| 1698 | Proceeded to Ireland | [13] |
| 1701 | War renewed | [13] |
| —— | Embarked for Holland, and reviewed at Breda by King William III. | — |
| —— | Encamped at Rosendael | — |
| 1702 | Decease of King William III., and accession of Queen Anne | — |
| —— | March to Duchy of Cleves | — |
| —— | Arrival at Nimeguen | [14] |
| —— | War declared against France | — |
| —— | Siege of Venloo | — |
| —— | ———– Ruremonde | — |
| —— | ———– Stevenswart | — |
| —— | ———– the Citadel of Liege | — |
| 1703 | Proceeded to Maestricht | [15] |
| —— | —————– Tongres | — |
| —— | Siege of Huy | — |
| —— | ———– Limburg | [16] |
| —— | Spanish Guelderland wrested from France | — |
| —— | Marched back to Holland | — |
| 1704 | Proceeded from Holland to the Danube | — |
| —— | Joined the Imperial Army | — |
| —— | Battle of Schellenberg | — |
| —— | Crossed the Danube | [17] |
| —— | Joined the Imperial Army under Prince Eugene of Savoy | [18] |
| —— | Battle of Blenheim | — |
| —— | Marshal Tallard and many officers and soldiers made prisoners | [19] |
| —— | Marched to Holland with prisoners | — |
| 1705 | Attacks on Helixem, Neer-Winden, and Neer-Hespen | [20] |
| 1706 | Encamped at Tongres | [22] |
| —— | Battle of Ramilies | — |
| —— | Surrender of Brussels, Ghent, and principal towns of Brabant | — |
| 1706 | Surrender of Ostend | [23] |
| —— | Siege of Menin, on the River Lys | — |
| —— | Capture of Dendermond and Aeth | — |
| 1707 | Encampment near the village of Waterloo | [24] |
| 1708 | Re-embarked for England to repel invasion by the Pretender | — |
| —— | Returned to Flanders, landed at Ostend, and proceeded to Ghent | — |
| —— | Re-taking of Ghent and Bruges by the French | — |
| —— | Battle of Oudenarde | [25] |
| —— | Siege of Lisle | — |
| —— | Town of Ghent re-captured | [26] |
| 1709 | Siege and capture of Tournay | [27] |
| —— | Battle of Malplaquet | [28] |
| —— | Siege and surrender of Mons | [29] |
| —— | Marched into winter-quarters at Ghent | — |
| 1710 | Forcing the French lines at Pont-à-Vendin | — |
| —— | Siege and surrender of Douay | [30] |
| —— | Attack and surrender of Bethune | — |
| —— | ————————– of Aire and St. Venant | [31] |
| —— | Proceeded to Courtray | — |
| —— | Winter-quarters at Courtray | — |
| 1711 | Encamped at Warde and on the plains of Lens | — |
| —— | Forcing the lines at Arleux | — |
| —— | Siege of Bouchain | [32] |
| 1712 | Negociations for peace | — |
| —— | Duke of Ormond assumed the command of the army | — |
| —— | Surrender of Quesnoy | — |
| —— | British troops withdrawn to Ghent, and thence to Dunkirk | — |
| 1713 | Removed to Ghent | [33] |
| 1714 | ————— Nieuport | — |
| 1715 | Returned to England | — |
| 1722 | Encamped on Salisbury Plain | [34] |
| —— | Reviewed by King George I. and the Prince of Wales | — |
| 1723 | Proceeded to Scotland | — |
| 1724 | Returned to England | — |
| 1730 | Embarked for Gibraltar | — |
| 1749 | Returned to Ireland | [35] |
| 1751 | Colours and costume regulated by Royal Warrant | — |
| 1767 | Embarked for North America | [36] |
| 1768 | Proceeded to Boston | — |
| 1775 | Advanced to Concord and Lexington;—commencement of American War | [36] |
| —— | Returned to Boston | — |
| —— | Victory at Bunkers-Hill | [38] |
| 1776 | Evacuation of Boston | [39] |
| —— | Returned to Nova Scotia | [40] |
| —— | Attack and capture of Long Island | — |
| —— | Capture of New York | — |
| —— | ————– White Plains | — |
| —— | ————– Forts Washington and Lee | [41] |
| —— | ————– Rhode Island | — |
| 1777 | Embarked for Philadelphia | — |
| —— | Attack at Brandywine Creek | [42] |
| —— | March to Germantown | — |
| —— | Capture of Philadelphia | — |
| —— | ————– Billing's-Point | [43] |
| —— | Fight at Germantown | — |
| —— | Returned to Philadelphia | — |
| —— | Attack at Whitemarsh | — |
| 1778 | Concentrated at New York | — |
| —— | Evacuation of Philadelphia | — |
| —— | Attack at Freehold in New Jersey | [44] |
| —— | Returned to England | [45] |
| 1783 | Establishment reduced on termination of the American War | [45] |
| —— | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1786 | —————– Jamaica | — |
| 1795 | Returned to England | — |
| —— | Embarked for West Indies | [46] |
| —— | Disembarked on account of a storm, and casualties at Sea | — |
| 1797 | Proceeded to Portsmouth | — |
| 1798 | Embarked for Madras | — |
| 1799 | Removal to Bengal | — |
| 1800 | Embarked for Egypt | [47] |
| 1801 | Landed at Cosseir | — |
| —— | Crossed the Desert of Arabia | [48] |
| —— | Arrived at Kenna and Girgee in Upper Egypt | — |
| —— | Proceeded down the Nile to Rosetta, and El-Hamed | [49] |
| —— | Surrender of Alexandria | — |
| —— | French Army evacuate Egypt | — |
| —— | Authorized to bear the Sphinx with the word "Egypt" | [50] |
| 1802 | Encamped at Alexandria | — |
| 1803 | Arrived at Malta | — |
| 1804 | Removed to Gibraltar | [51] |
| —— | Second Battalion added to the establishment, and formed in Essex | — |
| 1806 | Battle of Maida | [53] |
| 1807 | Embarked for Sicily | — |
| 1809 | Proceeded on an expedition to Naples | [54] |
| —— | Returned to Sicily | [55] |
| —— | Second Battalion embarked for Walcheren | — |
| —— | Returned to England | — |
| 1810 | Embarked for Gibraltar | — |
| —— | Proceeded to Malta | [56] |
| 1811 | Embarked for Sicily | — |
| 1812 | First Battalion embarked for Spain | [56] |
| 1813 | Second Battalion proceeded against the Island of Ponzo | [57] |
| —— | Returned to Sicily | — |
| —— | First Battalion—Battle of Castalla | [58] |
| —— | Siege of Tarragona | — |
| —— | Proceeded to Balaguer | [60] |
| —— | Accidental and destructive Fire | — |
| —— | Marched to Valls and thence to Vendrills | [61] |
| —— | Blockade of Barcelona | — |
| 1814 | Cessation of hostilities | — |
| —— | Arrived at Palermo | [62] |
| —— | Second Battalion embarked from Sicily for Malta | — |
| 1815 | Return of Napoleon Buonaparte to France | — |
| —— | First Battalion embarked for Naples | — |
| —— | Proceeded to Malta | — |
| 1816 | Peace restored; the First and Second Battalions incorporated | [63] |
| —— | Authorised to bear the word "Peninsula," on the Colours and Appointments | — |
| 1817 | Embarked for the Ionian Islands | — |
| 1819 | Re-embarked for Malta | — |
| 1821 | Embarked for England | — |
| 1823 | Embarked for Ireland | [64] |
| 1826 | Embarked for Portugal | [65] |
| 1828 | Embarked for Corfu | — |
| 1837 | Returned to Ireland | [66] |
| 1839 | Embarked for England | — |
| 1841 | Proceeded to Scotland | — |
| 1842 | Removed from Scotland | — |
| —— | Embarked for India | [67] |
| 1845 | Proceeded to Meerut | — |
| 1846 | Joined the army on the Sutlej | — |
| —— | Battle of Sobraon | [68] |
| 1846 | Authorised to bear the word "Sobraon," on the Colours and Appointments | [71] |
| —— | Occupation of Lahore | [72] |