Chapter I: Preface

This Memoir of the Services of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment, now 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, was originally arranged and prepared for publication, from September, 1793, “in which year the Regiment was raised,” to September, 1863, by Brevet Major Edward William Bray, who was then serving with the Regiment. The later history, from 1864 up to present time, has been collected from the Authentic Records preserved in the Regimental Orderly Room.

MEERUT,

_December, 1907_.

CONTENTS

PART I contains the Services of 1st Battalion, from
1793, the date of its being raised, to 1817, when the 1st and
2nd Battalions were amalgamated at the Cape of Good Hope.

PART II contains the History of the 2nd Battalion
from 1804 to 1814, and the Services of the Regiment during the
Peninsular War.

PART III contains the Services of the Regiment in
Ceylon from 1814 to 1829.

PART IV contains the Services of the Regiment from 1829
to 1848, including its Services in Canada.

PART V contains the Services of the Regiment in India,
including the Indian Mutiny, from 1849 to 1857.

PART VI contains the Services of the Regiment from 1858
to 1863, including the campaign of 1858 in Central India.

PART VII contains the Services of the Regiment from
1864 to 1907, including the campaign of 1881 in South Africa.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENT