YearPage
1702Formation of the Regiment[9]
——Names of Officers[10]
1705Forms part of the Force under the Earl of Peterborough, and embarks for Spain[11]
——Siege of Barcelona
1707Returns to England[15]
1708Proceeds to Ostend[16]
———— Antwerp[17]
1710Sieges of the Fortresses of Douay, Bethune, Aire, and St. Venant[18]
1711Siege of Bouchain[19]
1712Stationed at Dunkirk
1713Returns to England[20]
——Reduction of the Regiment
1715Restoration of the Regiment
——Names of Officers
1717Proceeds to Ireland[21]
1719Returns to England
——Forms part of the expedition under General Viscount Cobham, destined for Spain
——Capture of Vigo
——Returns to England, and is again stationed in Ireland[22]
1727Embarks for Gibraltar
1728Returns to Ireland[23]
1739Augmentation of the Establishment
1739Removed to England
1744Embarks for Flanders[24]
1745Battle of Fontenoy
——Returns to England[25]
1746Proceeds to Edinburgh[26]
——Battle of Culloden[27]
——Stationed in South Britain[28]
1749The Regiment placed on a peace establishment
1751Uniform and Colours of the Regiment
1752Embarks for Minorca[29]
1756Embarks for Gibraltar[32]
——Returns to England
1757The Regiment augmented to two battalions
1758The Second Battalion constituted the Seventy-third Regiment
——Forms part of an armament employed to reduce the maritime power of France, and after destroying the shipping and magazines at St. Maloes, returns to England
——Forms part of a similar expedition, and after taking possession of Cherbourg, returns to England[33]
1762Siege of the Moro Fort, and Capture of the Havannah[35]
1763Proceeds to North America[36]
1768Returns to Europe
1769} Stationed in Ireland
1776
1775Augmented to the War Establishment
1776Embarks for North America[37]
1777Siege of Fort Stanwix[39]
1782Styled the Cumberland Regiment
1786Returns to England
1792Augmentation of the Establishment
1795Embarks for the West Indies
——Proceeds to St. Lucia[40]
1796Reduction of St. Vincent[41]
——Embarks for England
1800—— —— the Cape of Good Hope[42]
1802—— —— the East Indies
1803Four Companies proceed from Madras to Ceylon[43]
1805A Second Battalion added
——The Detachment of the First Battalion rejoins Head-Quarters from Ceylon[44]
1807The Second Battalion proceeds to Ireland
——Embarks for England
1809The Second Battalion embarks for the Peninsula[45]
1810Battle of Busaco[47]
1811Siege of Badajoz[48]
——Battle of Albuhera[49]
——Action at Arroyo de Molinos[51]
1812Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo[53]
1813Battle of Vittoria[55]
——Blockade of Pampeluna[56]
——Battle of the Pyrenees[60]
———— —— Nivelle[61]
———— —— Nive
1814—— —— Orthes[62]
———— —— Toulouse
——The Second Battalion embarks for Ireland[63]
1817—— —— —— disbanded[64]
1817}
to} Mahratta and Pindaree war[66]
1820}
1823Embarks for England[70]
1824Proceeds to Ireland
1829Embarks for North America[71]
1836The red and white tuft resumed[72]
1841Embarks for England[76]
1843Proceeds to Ireland[77]
1844The Conclusion[78]

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.

YearPage
1702Robert Lord Lucas[79]
1705Hans Hamilton[80]
1712Thomas Chudleigh
1723Robert Hayes[81]
1732Stephen Cornwallis
1738Lord James Cavendish
1742The Honorable James Cholmondeley[82]
1749The Honorable Henry Seymour Conway[83]
1751Charles Russell
1754Thomas Earl of Effingham[84]
1760Lord Frederick Cavendish
1797George Ferdinand Lord Southampton
1810Sir Eyre Coote, G.C.B.[85]
1816The Honorable Sir G. Lowry Cole, G.C.B.[87]
1826Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Bart. G.C.B. and G.C.H.[88]

Succession of Lieutenant-Colonels[89]
Succession of Majors[91]

PLATES.

Regimental colourto face page[xix]
Queen’s and Regimental Colours[9]
Uniform of Officers in 1844[9]
Uniform of Private Soldiers in 1742[24]
Uniform of Private Soldiers in 1844[78]

THIRTY-FOURTH (THE CUMBERLAND) REGIMENT OF FOOT.

(Queen’s and Regimental Colours.)