The foregoing pages record the bravery, endurance, and uniformly good conduct of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, both at home and abroad: its early services during the wars in Spain and Flanders in the reign of Queen Anne; its subsequent achievements on various expeditions in Europe, Africa, America, and the West Indies; its employment, for a period exceeding twenty years, in the East Indies; and its gallantry in Portugal, Spain, and France, to the conclusion of the Peninsular War in 1814, afford the best proofs of the zealous and honorable conduct of its officers and men, who, under severe trials, have evinced a steady adherence to the rules of discipline, and a gallant bearing whenever they have been brought into contact with the enemies of their country: nor has the conduct of the regiment been less conspicuous on home, than on foreign, service; but has been, at all times, such as to merit the approbation of the Sovereign, and the gratitude of the kingdom.
THIRTY-FOURTH (THE CUMBERLAND) REGIMENT OF FOOT.
(Uniform of Private Soldiers in 1844)
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FOOTNOTES:
[6] “About nine o’clock in the morning, the enemy made an attack with a body of foot, supported by two bodies of horse, on the weakest and most westerly part of the outworks, and where were only one hundred English of Hamilton’s (Thirty-fourth) Regiment, who had that very morning come upon duty, from travelling forty leagues in the two foregoing days, upon mules; notwithstanding all which, they fairly repulsed the enemy.” Journal of the Siege of Barcelona.
[7] Boyer’s Annals of Queen Anne.
[8] Afterwards colonel of the regiment.
[9] History of Scotland by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.