[12] Narrative of the Campaign in India in 1792, by Major Dirom, Deputy Adjutant-General of His Majesty’s forces in India.
[13] While the attack was being carried on in the redoubt on the 6th of February, one of the enemy’s corps advanced with drums beating and colours flying, the commanding officer of which supposed the British to be their own Europeans, whose uniform was also red; upon discovering his mistake, he soon made off, and Lieutenant John Campbell, of the Thirty-sixth grenadiers, who had come out of the redoubt wounded, on seeing the corps break, rushed forward and seized the standards.—Major Dirom’s Narrative of the Campaign.
[14] In 1794, Tippoo received back his sons, and immediately commenced secret negociations with the French, who were then at war with Great Britain, in order to renew measures for “utterly destroying the English in India.” This animosity ended only with the death of the Sultan, which took place on the 4th of May 1799, while defending Seringapatam against his former opponents. His body was found amidst heaps of slain, and was interred in the mausoleum which he had erected over the tomb of his father, Hyder Ali, a portion of the victorious troops attending the ceremony.
[15] On the 16th of October 1835, His Majesty King William IV. was graciously pleased to authorize the Thirty-sixth to bear on the regimental colour and appointments the word “Hindoostan,” in commemoration of its distinguished services in the several actions in which it had been engaged in India from September 1790 to September 1793.
[16] In June 1806, Buenos Ayres had been captured by the British under Brigadier-General William Carr Beresford, afterwards General Viscount Beresford; the place was, however, recovered by the Spaniards in August following, and the troops became prisoners; in consequence of these events Lieut.-General Whitelocke proceeded in command of an expedition for the purpose of re-capturing Buenos Ayres, and the Thirty-sixth became part of his force, as above stated.
[17] Lieut.-General Sir Harry Burrard landed during the action, but did not assume the command. Lieut-General Sir Hew Dalrymple landed on the following day, and took command of the army. The force under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore was also disembarked during the negotiation which subsequently took place, making the British army to amount to thirty-two thousand men.
[18] Vide [General Orders of the 18th of January], and [1st of February], 1809; also a list of regiments employed under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore at Corunna, inserted in [pages 124] &c. of the Appendix.
[19] The origin of the word “Firm” being borne by the Thirty-sixth has not been ascertained with certainty; but it has been supposed that it was adopted in consequence of the expression firmness used in the orders of General the Earl Cornwallis the day after the capture of the important fortress of Bangalore, the details of which are given at [page 53]; the documents alluded to by Sir George Nayler in the above letter, and on which the regiment was permitted to revive the word “Firm,” are inserted in the Appendix, [pages 129], &c.; by these it will be perceived that the word “Firm” must have been adopted by the regiment several years before the capture of Bangalore, which was effected in March 1791.