Historical Record of the Twenty-first Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1849

by Richard Cannon

List of the British Regiments which served in Flanders and Germany between 1742 and 1748, during the "War of the Austrian Succession."

Cavalry.		Year in which embarked for Flanders.	Returned to Great Britain in consequence of the Rebellion in favor of the Pretender.	Rejoined the Army in Flanders, after the suppression of the Rebellion.
Regiments.	Colonels.
3rd Troop Horse Guards	Earl of Albemarle	1742	1746
4th ditto ditto	Earl of Effingham	1742	1746
2nd ditto Horse Grenadier Guards	Earl of Craufurd	1742	1746
Royal Regiment Horse Guards	Earl of Hertford	1742	1746
1st Horse (1st Dragoon Guards)	Earl of Pembroke	1742	1746
4th Irish Horse (7th Dragoon Guards)	Sir John Ligonier	1742	1746
1st Dragoons	Hawley	1742	1746
2nd ditto	Campbell	1742	Remd. in Flanders
3rd ditto	Honeywood	1742	1746
4th ditto	Rich	1742	1746	1747
6th ditto (Inniskilling)	Lord Cadogan	1742}	Remained in Flanders.
7th ditto	Cope	1742}
Foot Guards.
1st Foot Guards 1st Battalion	Duke of Cumberland	1742	1746	1747
2nd ditto ditto	Duke of Marlborough	1742	1746
3rd ditto ditto	Earl of Dunmore	1742	1746	1747
Infantry.
1st Foot 1st Batt.	St. Clair	1744	1746
3rd ditto (Buffs)	Howard	1742	1746	1747
4th ditto	Barrel	1744	1746
8th ditto	Onslow	1742	1746	1747
11th ditto	Cornwallis	1742	Remd. in Flanders
12th ditto	Duroure	1742	1746
13th ditto	Pulteney	1742	1746	1747
18th ditto	Mordaunt	1743	1746
19th ditto (Green)	Howard	1744	Remd. in Flanders
20th ditto	Bligh	1742	1746	1747
21st ditto, Royal Nth. British Fusiliers	Campbell	1742	1746	1747
23rd ditto, Royal Welsh Fusiliers	Peers	1742	1746	1747
25th ditto	Earl of Rothes	1744	1746	1747
28th ditto	Bragg	1744	1746
31st ditto	Handasyd	1742	1746
32nd ditto	Skelton	1742}	Remained in Flanders.
33rd ditto	Johnson	1742}
34th ditto	Cholmondeley	1744	1746
36th ditto	Fleming	1744	1746	1747
37th ditto	Ponsonby	1742	1746	1747
42nd ditto	Lord Semphill	1744	1746
48th ditto	Lord Harry Beauclerk	1744	1746	1747

London:—Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street,
For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] This nobleman was John (sixth) Earl of Mar, the son of Charles (fifth) Earl of Mar, who raised the Twenty-first regiment, and was the first colonel of that regiment. On his decease, on the 23rd of April, 1689, his son John became Earl of Mar, and was honored with several appointments by Queen Anne. Upon the arrival of King George I., he was informed that his services were no longer required as Third Secretary of State, and he retired to his estates in Scotland where he raised a rebellion, and proclaimed the Pretender at Kirk-Michael, in Perthshire, on the 11th of September, 1715. After the defeat of the rebels at Sheriff-muir, he escaped from Scotland, and in 1716, was attainted of high treason. He followed the Pretender to Rome, and remained in his service until 1721, when he removed to Paris where he remained until 1729. From Paris he retired to Aix-la-Chapelle, where he died, in May, 1732. His son, Thomas, Lord Erskine, enjoyed his father's forfeited estates, which were conveyed to him in 1739 by his uncle, Mr. Erskine of Grange, who bought them of the Commissioners for the benefit of his nephew.

[7] A List of the British regiments which served in Flanders and Germany, between 1742 and 1748, during the "War of the Austrian Succession," is given in [page 64].

[8] See Memoir of Major-General Robert Ross at page 75 of the Historical Record of the Twentieth Regiment.

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