FOOTNOTES:
[49] The Corps, which had been formed in 1737 by Colonel James Oglethorpe for service in Georgia and South Carolina, was disbanded in 1749. It had not been ranked in the number of regiments of infantry in the Official Records of the Army, although in some publications of that period it was numbered the Forty-second, regiment, according to its seniority and the date of its formation.
[50] A Fourth Division was formed at Woolwich by Order in Council dated 15th August, 1805.
Note.—The Compiler of these Records feels it a duty to acknowledge, that he has derived a principal portion of the means of drawing up the details of the services of the Marines from “An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps,” published in 1803, “by Captain Alexander Gillespie, who served as an Officer in that Corps upwards of twenty-four years;” a work of considerable merit and research, which reflects great honor on its author, as an excellent scholar and a most zealous officer.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The second part of the book, the ‘Historical Record of the Marine Corps’, used its own page numbering. This has not been changed.
The column headers for the Table on [page 224] have been adjusted to be more readable, with no loss or change of text.