Chapter III: Part 3

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| NAMES. | Dates of | REMARKS. |
| | Appointment. | |
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|John Doyne |Dec. 26, 1755|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, |
| | |{ June 30, 1760. |
|James Stewart |June 30, 1760|{Promoted to Lieut.-Col., |
| | |{ February 20, 1762. |
|John Heighington |Feb. 20, 1762|Resigned September 9, 1762. |
|Alexander Milbanke |Sep. 9, 1762|Died November 4, 1762. |
|William Forbes |Nov. 4, 1762|{Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, |
| | |{ October 31, 1762. |
|Thomas Johnston |Oct. 31, 1762|Resigned September 11, 1765. |
|Henry Pringle |Sep. 11, 1765|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel |
| | |{ Fifty-first Foot, August |
| | |{ 16, 1770. |
|John Caulfield |Aug. 16, 1770|{Promoted to Lieut.-Col., |
| | |{ October 3, 1776. |
|Bulleine Fancourt |Oct 3, 1776|Retired August 6, 1783. |
|Hon. Vere Poulett |Aug. 6, 1783|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel |
| | |{ Sixtieth Regiment, August |
| | |{ 31, 1793. |
|Patrick Tytler |Aug. 31, 1793|Retired October 8, 1794. |
|John Alexander |Oct. 8, 1794|Retired March 10, 1797. |
|James Barrington |Sep. 1, 1795|Resigned September 3, 1800. |
|Robert Douglas |March 10, 1797|{Promoted Lieut.-Colonel |
| | |{ Eighteenth Foot, July |
| | |{ 9, 1803. |
|Henry S. Keating |Sep. 3, 1800|{Promoted August 1, 1804, |
| | |{ by Augmentation. |
|Robert Owen |Aug. 27, 1803|{Placed upon half-pay, |
| | |{ February 21, 1805. |
|George Andrew |Aug. 1, 1804|{Exchanged to half-pay, |
| Armstrong | |{ January 5, 1805. |
|Robert O’Neill } |Aug. 2, 1804|{Exchanged to half-pay, |
| {Augmen- } | |{ June 23, 1808, with |
| {tation. } | |{ Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh. |
|Fletcher Barclay } |Aug. 27, 1804|Promoted June 27, 1811. |
|William Brooke |Jan. 5, 1805|{Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon |
| | |{ Guards, July 25, 1805. |
|John McLeod |Feb. 21, 1805|{Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ninth |
| | |{ Garrison Battalion, May |
| | |{ 5, 1808. |
|Henry R. Knight |July 25, 1805|Exchanged to half-pay, July |
| | |{ 17, 1806. |
|Boyle Travers |July 17, 1806|Promoted January 2, 1812. |
|Samuel Bayley |June 9, 1808|Died in 1810. |
|Thomas Walsh |June 23, 1808|Died in 1810. |
|John William Mallett |Aug. 29, 1810|Promoted November 6, 1813. |
|Sir Charles Wyndham }|Nov. 29, 1810|Retired July 26, 1821. |
| Burdett, Bart. }| | |
|Robert Grant |June 27, 1811|{Exchanged to Eighty-second |
| | |{ Foot, April 12, 1821. |
|Joseph Hanna |Jan. 2, 1812|Died in 1816. |
|William S. Forbes |Nov. 6, 1813|}Placed on half-pay on September|
|Henry Capadose |Oct. 17, 1816|} 6, 1817, on the disbandment |
| | |} of second battalion. |
|George Wroughton |April 12, 1821|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel |
| Montagu | |{ unattached, May 19, 1825. |
|John Gualey |July 26, 1821|Cancelled. |
|Howell Harris |July 26, 1821|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, |
| Prichard | |{ April 26, 1831. |
|John Elliot Cairnes |May 26, 1825|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel |
| | |{ unattached, March 29, 1827. |
|John Peddie |March 29, 1827|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel |
| | |{ unattached, August 28, 1827. |
|William Gun |Aug. 28, 1827|Retired October 11, 1831. |
|William Mitchell |April 26, 1831|{Exchanged to half-pay, |
| | |{ June 13, 1834. |
|George Morton Eden |Oct. 11, 1831|{Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, |
| | |{ May 20, 1836. |
|John Wilson |June 13, 1834|Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837. |
|Forrester Owen |May 20, 1836|Retired September 12, 1843. |
| Leighton | | |
|Peter Shadwell |July 15, 1837|} |
| Norman | |} Now serving. |
|Edmund Wm. Wilton |Sep. 12, 1843|} |
| Passy | |} |
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LONDON:
HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS,
ST. MARTIN’S LANE.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Afterwards General SIR DAVID DUNDAS, K.B., author of a valuable work on the principles of military movements, which became the basis of regulations for the field exercises of the British army.

[2] Strength of the garrison of Gibraltar, at the commencement of the blockade, 21st June, 1779.

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| BRITISH. |Officers|Staff.| Ser- | Drum- | Rank &|
| | | |jeants.| mers. | File.|
| +--------+------+-------+-------+-------+
|Royal Artillery | 25 | 0 | 17 | 15 | 428 |
|Royal Engineers | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 106 |
|12th Regiment | 26 | 3 | 29 | 22 | 519 |
|39th ” | 25 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 506 |
|56th ” | 23 | 4 | 30 | 22 | 506 |
|58th ” | 25 | 3 | 29 | 22 | 526 |
|72nd, or, Royal Manchester |} | | | | |
| Volunteers (disbanded 1783)|} 29 | 4 | 47 | 22 | 944 |
| | | | | | |
| HANOVERIANS. | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
|Hardenberg’s Regiment | 16 | 13 | 42 | 14 | 367 |
|Reden’s ” | 15 | 12 | 42 | 14 | 361 |
|De la Motte’s ” | 17 | 16 | 42 | 14 | 367 |
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| Total | 209 | 59 | 313 | 169 | 4,632 |
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_Governor_, General GEORGE A. ELIOTT, afterwards LORD HEATHFIELD.

_Lieut.-Governor_, Lieut.-General R. Boyd.

_Commanding the Hanoverian Brigade_, Major-General De la Motte.

[3] The Duke of York’s despatch.

[4] These orders are printed in the Record of the Second or Queen’s Royal Regiment of Foot, page 81.

[5] Lieut.-Colonel Keating’s despatch.

[6] Serjeant HASTY was afterwards discharged and appointed to a situation in the service of the governor. He proved a man of talent, and was selected to take charge of, and educate in the English language, two of the princes of Ova, in Madagascar, where Radam was king. He was afterwards nominated British Resident at Madagascar; and on a visit to the Mauritius, he was received by a guard of honour of his old corps, commanded by his former captain. He died at Madagascar.

[7] Colonel Fletcher Barclay was appointed Ensign in the FIFTY-SIXTH on the 30th of June, 1791, and served in the West Indies, in Holland, and in the East Indies. In 1804, he was promoted to the rank of Major, and in 1811, to Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1831, he retired, after a diligent and faithful service of forty years, having passed through the several grades, and attained the rank of Colonel in the Army.

[8] While detachments of the regiment were in the disputed territory, several desertions occurred, and in the beginning of March, 1841, Lieutenant T. Johnes Smith evinced signal energy and discretion in the apprehension of a deserter from the party under his orders, who had taken refuge in the American Block Houses at Fish River, for which he received the thanks of Major-General Sir James Macdonell, commanding at Quebec.

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