Historical Record of the Thirty-ninth, or the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1853.

by Richard Cannon

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.

Eight occurrences of ‘Guadaloupe’ have been changed to ‘Guadeloupe’.

[Pg ix]: ‘Passage of the _Niver_’ replaced by ‘Passage of the _Nive_’.
[Pg 24]: ‘but in conquence’ replaced by ‘but in consequence’.
[Pg 48]: Sidenote ‘1810. 2nd Batt.’ replaced by ‘1810. 1st Batt.’.
[Pg 79]: Missing Sidenote ‘1836.’ inserted before ‘In February 1836’.
[Pg 121]: ‘THIRTH-NINTH’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-NINTH’.