Chapter XL: Appendix: 11 (2)

O’Loughlin, Ensign A. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Omar Pasha, 163

O’Neill, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

O’Neill, Pte. Nicholas (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

O’Neill, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), at Colchester, 306

Orakau, the attack upon, 208-212

Orakzais, the, 299

O’Gorman, Capt. C. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Ord, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Orkney, General Lord, 59

Ormond, Duke of, 63

Ormsby, Lt.-Col. A. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 14, 22, 385

Ormsby, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Orr, Major A. S. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
in Tirah campaign, 299;
in Boer war, 311, 348, 355, 359-360, 370, 419

Orr, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

Ostend, 45, 51, 52, 74-76

Otahuhu, village of, 217

Oudenarde, battle of, 47-50

Owen, Lt. J. S. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

Owens, Capt. R. L. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

Oxford, the regt.’s adventures at, 63, 64

Paardeberg, 322, 362;
Royal Irish Mounted Infantry at, 372

Paardeplatz, the Royal Irish in the attack upon, 344

Padaung, 153, 154

Paget, Maj.-General A. H., 324-327, 330, 333, 338, 340

Pagoda Hill, Tinghae, attack upon, 130-131

Palmer, 2nd Lt. R., in Boer war, 312

Panter-Downes, Maj. E. M., 309;
in Boer war, 311, 318, 338, 356, 370

Papoia, village of, 219

Park, Lt.-Col. C. W., Devonshire Regiment, in Boer war, 355, 356-358,
418, 421

Parker, Corp., 1st Life Guards, 362, 363

Parker, Lt. Charles (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Parker, Capt. Robert (XVIIIth), in Ireland, at Namur and in
Marlborough’s campaigns; his journal of wars of William III. and
Anne, 2, 21, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40, 44, 54, 58, 59, 60, 386

Parker, Admiral Sir William, 137

Parkyn, Lt. S. S. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Patea, 216

Patterson, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

Payne, Capt. J. B. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Payne, Capt. W. A. T. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

Peake, Surgeon G. W., M.D. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Pears, Lt. M. L., Cameronians, 299

Pearse, Lt. N. L., Derbyshire Regiment, 240

Pearson, Robert, officer of Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

Peebles, Sergt. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 366, 399

Pegu, 152, 153, 160

Pélissier, Marshal, 163, 175, 176

Penotière, Capt. F. de la (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40,
58, 386

Pennyman, Ensign F. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 387

Pensant, Lt. J.
_See_ Pinsent, Lt. J.

Percival, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Percy, Lord, at Lexington, 81

Philips, Capt. Chichester (XVIIIth), 5

Philips, Ensign John, 5

Phillip, ----, Asst.-Surgeon (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Phillips, Ensign C. G. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Phillips, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Piercy, Lt. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Pigott, Ensign R. (XVIIIth), 5

Pinsent, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Pinsent, Lt. James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 33, 58, 386

Pocklington, Lt.-Col. G. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189, 227

Pointz, Capt.-Lt. R. (XVIIIth), 5

Polingue, in San Domingo, 117

Poona, 190

Poplar Grove, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 362, 366

Porteous, Asst.-Surgeon C. E., M.D. (XVIIIth), in India, 189, 394

Porter, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), 5

Port Mahon, Minorca, 65, 66, 69

Portmore, Lord, 69

Porto Ferraio, Elba, 116

Port Said, 236-239

Potter, 2nd Lt. H. W. R. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299, 414

Pottinger, Sir Henry, 122, 128, 133, 140

Power, Mr, ‘Times’ correspondent, 270

Power, Pte. ---- (No. 5914) (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365

Power, Capt. Sir J. E. C., 5th battalion (XVIIIth), 370, 397

Pratt, Surgeon-Major (XVIIIth), 288

Prendergast, Surgeon J., A.M.D., in Egypt, 1882, 240

Pretender, the, 46, 49

Prescott, Col., of provincial troops, at Bunker’s Hill, 82-84

Preston, Capt. F. (XVIIIth), 5

Preston, Paymaster C. E. (XVIIIth), in India, 189

Prideaux, Ensign E. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Pringle, Lt. F. J. S. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 219, 220

Prinsloo, Boer General, surrender of, 341

Probyn, Major T. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

Prome, 153, 156-157, 160

Pujolas, Capt. Anthony (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58, 72

Pulteney, General Sir James, Bart., 105;
Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 426-427

Purefoy, Capt. B. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Putahi _pah_, 217-218

Quarries, the, 175

Radford, Drummer G. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 362, 365, 402

Radigan, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 368, 371, 405

Raglan, N.Z., 207

Raglan, Lord, in Crimea, 163, 170, 175, 176

Ramme, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Ramillies, battle of, 42-44

Rangariri, 200-201

Rangoon, 146-152

Rathbone, L/-Corp. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 340, 371

Rawal Pindi, 299

Rawlinson, Fr., R.C. chaplain of XVIIIth, in Boer war, 317

Record of Service of 1st battalion Royal Irish in 1901, showing
movements in north of Transvaal from 12th April to 30th
September, 418-421

Redan, the, 175-184

Reddan, Col.-Sergt. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

Reddersberg, 322

Redwood, Ensign L. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Reed, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Reeves, Capt. G. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Reger, Quartermaster and Hon. Maj. F. P. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312,
340, 370

Reignolds, Col. T. S. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 146, 149, 150, 152,
153;
in Crimean war, 164, 172

Reit river, 363

Reitvlei, 363

Rewi, New Zealand war chief, 210

Reynolds, Rev. Henry (chaplain to XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns,
40, 58

Rhodesia, section of Royal Irish mounted infantry in, 307-308

Ricard, Lt. E. D. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165, 392

Richardson, 2nd Lt. H. E. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Richardson, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85, 387

Rickman, Lt. E. F. (XVIIIth), in Nile campaign, 261

Ring, Bt. Maj. J. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189;
in New Zealand war, 194, 201, 202, 207-208, 220, 394

Roberts, F.-M. Lord, in Boer war, 314, 316, 323, 343, 347-348, 357

Roberts, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Roberts’ Horse, in Boer war, 362, 363

Robinson, Hon. Capt. and Paymaster P. A. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
in Hazara campaign, 290

Rocke, Maj. J. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 214-220

Rogers, Lt. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

Rogers, Lt.-Col. G. W. N. (XVIIIth), in India, 225;
in Egypt, 1882, 240, 251, 252;
in Hazara campaign, 289, 290, 298

Rolleston, Capt. A. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 40, 385-386

Rolleston, Capt. F. (XVIIIth), 5

Rolleston, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 14

Rosetta, 114

Royal Irish Regiment, the, raised in 1684, 1;
successive names borne by, 1-2;
strange experience of the regt. at Colnbrook, 3-4;
re-equipment of the regt., 4;
reported by Schomberg to be the best regt. in his army, 6;
wins distinction at siege of Limerick, 7;
in battle of Aughrim, 12;
turned into a marine corps for some months, 14;
the regt. in the assault on Terra Nova, 19;
William’s recognition of the bravery displayed in siege of Namur,
20-21;
Venloo stormed by, 27-28;
detachment of, at the storming of the Schellenberg, 32-33;
battle of Blenheim, 33-40;
battle of Ramillies, 44;
wins glory at siege of Menin, 45;
first regt. under fire at battle of Oudenarde, 48;
desperate gallantry of, at Tournai, 55-56;
Parker’s account of the Royal Irish at battle of Malplaquet, 58-59;
a detachment of, in defence of Gibraltar, 69-70;
recruiting standard of, in 1731, 70-71;
in Low Countries, 73-77;
at Lexington, 79-81;
bravery displayed by troops at Bunker’s Hill, 83-85;
mutiny in Guernsey quelled by, 87-89;
takes part in defence of Toulon, 91-95;
in capture of Calvi in Corsica, 98-100;
in the landing in Tuscany, 102-103;
in the campaign in Egypt under Abercromby, 107-115;
the second battalion raised, 116;
and disbanded, 118;
in the first Chinese war, 121-144;
in second Burmese war, 145-161;
in Crimean war, 164-188;
in Indian Mutiny, 189-192;
in the war in New Zealand, 194-220;
in second Afghan war, 229-231;
in the Egyptian war of 1882, 240-252;
in Nile Expedition, 258-287;
in the Hazara or Black Mountain expedition, 289-298;
in Tirah campaign, 299-307;
contingent of Royal Irish mounted infantry serves in Mashonaland,
307-308;
the regt. in the Boer war, 311-372;
mounted infantry furnished by the regt, for service in the Boer war,
361-369;
casualty roll of the various campaigns of, 385-402;
names of officers of, who died of disease in West Indies, 403;
names of members of the regt. to whom the Victoria Cross has been
awarded, 404;
names of N.C.O. and men of, to whom distinguished conduct medal has
been granted, 404-405;
names of warrant officers and N.C.O. of, to whom meritorious service
medal has been granted, 405;
names of N.C.O. and men of, who gained good conduct medal between
1849 and June 1902, 405-413, 414-415;
South African kit of, 416;
extract from Record of Service of first battalion in Boer war,
418-421;
succession of colonels of the Royal Irish and their biographies,
422-430;
memorials to those of the regt. who fell in various campaigns,
431-439

Royal Navy, the, at Toulon, 94-97;
at Elba, 102-104;
at Cadiz, 105;
in Egypt, 1801, 110-111;
in Chinese war, 125-140;
in Burmese war, 146-151;
in Crimean war, 187;
in New Zealand war, 198, 214;
in Egyptian war of 1882, 235, 237-238, 241;
in Nile Expedition, 257, 274, 278-282

Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland, name given to the Royal Irish
Regiment at Namur by William III., 21

Royal Regiment of Ireland, on Irish establishment in 1684--sides with
James II.--joins army of Louis XIV., 21;
meets Royal Irish Regiment at Malplaquet, 58-59

Rundle, Lt.-General, in Boer war, 323, 330, 333, 340

Ruremonde, 28

Russell, Lt. J. J. R. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 204

Russell, Sir William, letter to ‘Times,’ 177-178

Russia, 162, 166-184, 186-187, 228-229

Ryan, L/-Corp. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 328

Ryan, Pte. J., No. 4129 (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 340, 371

Ryatt, Asst.-Surgeon (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Ryswick, Peace of, 23

St Arnaud, Marshal, in Crimea, 163

St Gillain, 76-77

St Leger, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 2

St Leger, Capt. S. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 310, 312, 361-363

St Ruth, General, in Irish war of William III., 9-13

St Venant, town in France, 60

St Vincent, Admiral Lord, 103-104

Salalieh, Egypt, 108

Salisbury, Rhodesia, 307

Salvin, Paymaster H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

San Domingo, 117, 118

Sannah’s Post, 322;
Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 362-363

Sargent, Maj. E. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 143;
in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189, 225

Sargent, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 389

Sarras, 262, 263, 266;
Royal Irish win Lord Wolseley’s prize for fastest voyage to Debbeh
from, 269-270

Savile, Colonel A. R., letter of General Gordon to, 185-186;
valuable services in preparation of the history of the regiment,
preface p. viii.

Sarsfield, General, in Irish war of William III., 7, 11, 12

Saxe, Marshal, 74

Schellenberg, the, attacked by detachment of Royal Irish, 31-33

Schomberg, Marshal Duke of, commands William III.’s forces in Ireland,
5;
his report on the regt., 6, 16

Scott, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Scott, Lt. P. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Seaman, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Sebastopol, 163, 165, 166, 174, 183-185

Sebright, General Sir John, Bart., Colonel of Royal Irish Regt., 422;
biography of, 426

Segrave, Lt. T. L. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

Selicke, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Senekal, 332

Senior, 2nd Lt. W. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

Serle, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Sessman, Pte. John (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

Sewell, Ensign T. H. S. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

Seymour, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Shanghai, 137

Sharman, Wm., officer of Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

Shaw, Lt.-Col. Hugh, V.C. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189;
in New Zealand war, 194;
awarded V.C., 214-215, 216;
in Afghan war, 230, 231;
in Nile Expedition, 260, 269;
Lord Wolseley’s letter to, 270

Shee, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Shellal, 261

Shendi, 258, 259, 271

Shere Ali, Amir, 229

Sherlock, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, the regt. serves as Marines under,
14-15

Simmons, Ensign P. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

Simmons, Quartermaster W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Simpson, General, in Crimea, 163

Simpson, Maj. A. W. (XVIIIth) in Nile Expedition, 260

Slaap Kranz, 340, 341

Slabbert’s Nek, the Royal Irish in attack upon, 333-341

Slator, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

Smith, Ensign ---- (XVIIIth), at Limerick, 9, 385

Smith, Lt.-Col. ----, raid on Concord, 79-81

Smith, Lt. B. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Smith, Capt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Smith, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Smith, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

Smith, Capt. St G. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Smith, Ensign Samuel (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Smith, Ensign T. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Smith-Dorrien, General, in Boer war, 343, 346, 349, 350, 352-355

Smyth, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Smyth, Maj. R. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312, 365, 367, 370, 397

Snooke, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;
in West Indies, 117, 403

Soudan, the, 253-258, 286

South African Volunteers, in Boer war, 362, 367

South African war, the.
_See_ Boer war

Southwell, Capt. John (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

Spencer, Asst.-Surgeon W. I. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Spens, Col., in Boer war, 353, 354, 419

Spyer, Col. J. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
in Nile Expedition, 260, 307, 310

Stackpoole, Ensign E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

Stacpoole, Capt. G. W. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165

Stainforth, Quartermaster J. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Stanhope, Ensign (XVIIIth), letter to Major Gillman respecting, 72-73

Stations of the regt. since its formation in 1684 to 1902, 375-384

Stearne, Brig.-General Robert (XVIIIth), his journal of the wars of
William III. and Anne, 2-60;
Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 425

Stephenson, Capt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

Stevens, Lt. C. M. (XVIIIth), in Nile Expedition, 260

Stewart, Brig.-General, commands desert column in Nile Expedition,
271-274

Stewart, Col. D., 11th Hussars, sent with Gordon to Khartoum, 256;
murdered by Arabs, 270

Stewart, Surgeon J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 122;
in Burmese war, 147

Stormberg, 312

Stotesbury, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Strang, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Stratford, Lt. Hon. C. H. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

Stroud, Capt. Joseph (XVIIIth), 5;
in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Suakim, 257, 281

Suckling, Lt. F. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Suez, 108

Suez Canal, 232-240

Sumpter, Paymaster L. T. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Swaby, Lt. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Swat Valley, tribes of, attack post at Malakand, 299

Sweeney, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 364-365, 371, 405

Swinburne, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

Swinburn, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189

Swindley, Ensign A. R. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Sydney, Australia, 222-223

Symonds, Lt. G. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
in India, 288

Tabaksberg, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 368

Tallard, Marshal de, 33-40

Tanjur cataract, 264

Tank, town, 228

Tantia Tope, 191

Tartars, the, 122;
attack Ningpo, 133-141

Taylor, R., Surgeon’s Mate (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Taylor, Capt. W. O’B. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165, 179, 182, 188;
in India, 189, 392

Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 238, 241-250

Terry, Maj., in Egypt, 1882, 240

Tewfik, Khedive, 234, 235, 253-257

Thabanchu, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366

Thacker, Lt. W. F. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

Theobald, Lt. J. S. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
in India, 189

Thomlinson, Maj. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Thompson, 2nd Lt. D. M. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

Thompson, Lt. E. H. B., ---- batt. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 372

Timmins, Drummer Joseph (XVIIIth), 193

Timsah, lake, 238, 241

Tinghae, 123, 130-132

Tirah campaign, the, 299-303, 414-415

Tizard, Lt. H. E., Royal Munster Fusiliers, 299

Tobin, L/-Corp. M. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365, 371

Tochi valley, attack by tribesmen of, upon British officer and his
escort, 298-299

Tod, Bandsman (XVIIIth), in India, 288

Todleben, General, splendid defence of Sebastopol by, 166-167, 173-176

Tomah, storming of stockade at, 154

Tomlinson, Lt.-Col. N. R. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 134-136, 389

Toohey, Sergt.-Maj. William (XVIIIth), 405

Toppin, Maj. J. M. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240

Torres, Count de las, attacks Gibraltar, 66-70

Toulon, defence of, 90-95;
evacuation of, 95-97, 387

Tournai, siege of, 55-56, 386

Trains, instructions issued for the defence of, in South Africa, 417

Treasury, the, public indignation with shortcomings of, in Crimean war,
173

Tripp, Capt.-Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

Tufnell, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
in Nile Expedition, 260

Turenne, Marshal de, 3

Turkey, co-operation of, with England in expedition of 1801 to Egypt,
107;
the Crimean war, 162

Tyrconnel, Earl of, devises reserve system, 2;
officers of the regt. disbanded by, 4, 5;
collects troops for James II., 5

Ughi, 291

Underhill, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

Usher, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

Vandaleur, 2nd Lt. T. B. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312

Varna, landing of allied forces at, in 1854, 162

Vauban, towns fortified by, 17, 45, 51

Vauclin, Capt. W.
_See_ Vaughan, Capt. W.

Vaudemont, Prince de, covering operations at siege of Namur, 17-19

Vaughan, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

Vavasour, Lt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 123, 141, 389

Veale, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

Vendôme, Marshal de, commander of French army in Flanders, 45-50

Venloo, storming of, 27-28

Venour, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139

Victoria Cross, names of members of Royal Irish Regt, who have been
awarded the, 404

Victoria, Queen, 164, 187, 302, 303

Vigors, Capt. P. U. (XVIIIth), 309;
in Boer war, 312, 361, 371

Viljoen, General Ben., attacks Monument Hill, 349;
captured by Major Orr, Royal Irish Regt., 359-360

Villars, Marshal de, operations of, against Marlborough, 41, 55, 56-60,
61

Villeroi, Marshal de, operations of, against William III., 17-18, 22;
against Marlborough, 41-42, 45-46

Wadi Haifa, 259, 261

Walker, Lt. C. W. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

Walker, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117;
at San Domingo, 118

Wallace, L/-Sergt. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

Walsh, Ensign Edward (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 33, 40, 386

Walsh, Ensign Henry (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Ward, Pte. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 363

Ward, Lt. A. T. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
in Hazara campaign, 290

Ward, Lieut. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165

War Office, the, public indignation against, owing to shortcomings in
Crimean war, 173

War with American Colonists, the, raid against Concord, 79-81;
Bunker’s Hill, 81-85, 87, 387

Waterford, 7, 9

Waters, Surgeon G. B. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;
in West Indies, 117

Watkins, Lt. F. M. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299

Watt, Lt. T. (XVIIIth), in India, 189, 394

Watt, Sergt.-Maj. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188

Weddall, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

Weddell, Capt. W.
_See_ Weddall, Capt. W.

Weir, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 182, 188

Welch, Lt. M. H. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311, 367, 370, 398

Weldon, Surgeon R. (XVIIIth), 5;
in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

Weldon, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

Welkom, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366-367

Wellington, Duke of, on our military weakness in 1846, 163

Wemyss, Lt.-Col. D. D. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 97;
at siege of Calvi, 99, 100;
in expedition to Piombino, 102-103

Wepener, 322

West, Lt. H. (XVIIIth), 5

West Indies, 117, 118, 119;
names of officers of the regt. who died in, from 1805 to 1816, 403

Whelan, Pte. P., No. 2830 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

Whelan, Pte. P., No. 3521 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

White, Sir George, in defence of Ladysmith, 313

White, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299;
in Boer war, 311, 335, 356-357

Whitfield, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Whitley, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

Wigston, Maj. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139;
in Burmese war, 147, 157, 160

Wilbraham, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

Wild, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

Wilders, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

Wiley, Lt. I. (XVIIIth), in India, 189

Wilford, Lt. E. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Wilkinson, Capt. Cuthbert (XVIIIth), 5

Wilkinson, Capt. J. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

William III., King, 1-9, 16-21

Williams, Lt. B. C. W., Yorkshire Regt., 299

Williams, Capt. T. Warwick, 5th V.B. King’s Liverpool Regt., 312, 330,
370, 398

Willington, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

Willis, Lt.-General G. H. S., in Egypt, 1882, 236, 241-242

Wilson, Lt. and Adjutant A. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 141,
389

Wilson, Lt. A. I. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
in Nile Expedition, 260

Wilson, Col. Sir Charles, in Nile Expedition, 272, 274, 278

Wilson, Lt.-Col. S. (XVIIIth), 223-224

Wilson, Lt.-General Sir John, Colours presented to the regt. by, 121

Wilton, Lt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Winburg, 323, 367

Wingfield, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Withers, General, at Malplaquet, 58

Wittebergen Mountains, 332

Wolseley, F.-M. Viscount, K.P., G.C.B., &c., amusing account of his
experience as a subaltern, 154-156;
wounded in Burmah, 160;
in Crimea, vi;
in Egypt, 1882, 236-251;
in Nile Expedition, 257-287, 302;
speech on presentation of new colours, 306-307;
Colonel-in-Chief of Royal Irish Regt., 422-423

Wolseley, Ensign J. R. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

Wood, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;
in Burmese war, 147, 152

Woodwright, Col. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;
in Burmese war, 147, 151, 158, 160

Woosung, capture of, 137

Worsopp, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), 5

Wray, Lt.-Col. T. C. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 202;
in Nile Expedition, 260, 261-262, 286, 289

Wright, Rev. ---- (Chaplain to XVIIIth), in Boer war, 317

Wynne, Lt. G. O. R. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290, 298

Yang-Tse-Kiang, 128, 135, 136-137, 141

Yarner, Maj.-General Abraham, certificate given by, as to formation of
the regt. in 1684, 16

Yarner, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 5

Yeatman-Biggs, Maj.-General, in Tirah campaign, 299-301

Young, Ensign Jos. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Young, Surgeon Thomas (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

Zag-a-zig, Egypt, important railway junction at, 238, 244, 249, 250

Zand river, Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 363

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Appendix 9.

[2] In Appendix No. 1 is given a list of the stations where the regiment has been quartered in time of peace.

[3] Brigadier-General Robert Stearne, Brigadier-General Richard Kane, Captain Robert Parker, and Sergeant John Millner, all of the Royal Irish regiment, wrote histories or journals of the wars of William III. and of Anne.

[4] An order to the Master-General of Ordnance, dated 14th February 1689, for the re-equipment of the regiment, gives these figures--

Firelocks.
Pikes. Tents.
Halberts. Flints.
Drums. Bayonets.
Bandalers
(=i.e.
Bandoliers.)

The full number }
of arms for the } 579 240 39 26 516 579 1000 156
regiment }

Whereof the officers }
have already } 60 0 7 5 16 79 0 0

Remain to complete }
the regiment } 519 240 32 21 500 500 1000 156

[5] See Appendix 9.

[6] See Appendix 9.

[7] (The names followed by a star are those of officers who had been disbanded by Tyrconnel.)

Colonel--Edward, Earl of Meath.

Lieutenant-Colonel--G. Newcomen (sometimes spelled Newcomb).

Major--Fred^k. Hamilton.*

Captains--Robert Stearne, F. Preston, Chichester Philips,* J.
Worsopp, G. Hamilton, Parsons Hoy*, Cuth^t. Wilkinson, John
Yarner,* R. Needham, F. Rolleston.

Captain-Lieutenant--R. Pointz.*

Lieutenants--W. Flower,* G. Connock, Ant. Brabazon, W. Usher,*
J. Porter, Peter Latham,* Ch. Hubblethorne,* H. West, John
Culliford,* N. Carteret,* Ch. Brabazon, Robert Blakeney,* W.
Underhill.

Ensigns--J. O’Bryen, J. I. Chichester, G. Brabazon, T. Weldon,*
T. Allen, John Philips, Ed. Corker, J. Stroud, J. Leigh, H.
Brabazon, T. Wilbraham, R. Kane, R. Pigott.

Surgeon--R. Weldon.

--(Dalton’s British Army Lists and Commission Registers.)

[8] Although the regular regiments were now numbered, it continued to be the fashion for many years to ignore their numbers and call them by the names of their colonels. At the risk of committing an anachronism, the author will at once adopt the modern system, and write of the regiment as the XVIIIth or the Royal Irish.

[9] Walton’s ‘History of the British Standing Army,’ p. 135.

[10] See Appendix 2 (A).

[11] Thanks to the industry of Mr Dalton, the compiler of ‘British Army Lists and Commission Registers,’ it is possible to trace with some degree of accuracy the casualties among the officers of the regiment in many, though by no means all the battles and sieges between 1690 and 1712.

[12] In this and many other quotations from the regimental historians the dates are according to the “old style,” and do not correspond with those in this book, which are in the “new style.”

[13] See Appendix 2 (A).

[14] Story’s Continuation.

[15] See Appendix 9.

[16] Stearne.

[17] See Map No. 2.

[18] A letter preserved among the archives of the Brabazon family shows that as early as 1689 the Earl of Meath was trying to obtain for his regiment its proper place in the army.

_To_ WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE Esq.
Secretary att warr
att his house in Snt James Parke
London.

LISNEGARNEY _Alias_ LISBURNE
_Nov. ye 18th (89)_
DUKE SCHOMBERG’S HED QUARTERS
IRELAND.

Upon my Request to Duke Schomberg Concerning y^e post of my
Regiment; he told mee all the oather Regiments was posted as y^e
King had ordered him; of which he could make no allteraction tell
he knew farther his Mag^{ties} pleashure in y^e pertickuler of
Myne; his Grace appoynted Count Soalmes to enquier farther into
this matt^r & since by y^e Dukes appoyntment bid me give you y^e
State of my Case; which y^e Enclosed Certyfies by our Commissary
Generall, (Yarner,) & y^t when you ofered it before y^e King he
doubted not but y^t you would procure me an order, to be posted
as appeeres by y^e Inclosed. I beg y^e favour in y^e affaire, &
y^t you will give me a line in ansewer directed to me in this
place; which will be a great kindnesse dun to

Y^e asshured ffaith^{ll} servant
MEATH.

I doe hereby Certifie that the R^t. hon^{ble} the Earle of
Granard’s Regiment of foot was form’d into a Regiment the first
of April 1684, which was afterwards given to his son the Lord
Forbese, and afterwards, as I am informed, to S^r John Edgworth,
and now to the R^t hon^{ble} the Earle of Meath; Dated this 27
day of September 1689.

ABR: YARNER
_must^r Gen^{ll} of their_
_Maj^{ts} Forces in Ireland_.

[19] Surely the highest compliment ever paid to the Intelligence Department of an Army!

[20] The modern names of the old numbered regiments are given in Appendix 11.

[21] _I.e._, Prussians.

[22] When Lord Granard raised the regiment in 1684 a corps of Foot Guards, called the Royal Regiment of Ireland, was on the Irish establishment; in the war between James II. and William III. it sided with the Stuart King, and after the surrender of Limerick it sailed for France to join the army of Louis XIV., where it retained its old name in its new service. The regiments were destined to meet at Malplaquet in 1709.

[23]

----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------
Regiment. Officers |Officers| Other | Other |
killed. |wounded.| ranks | ranks |Total.
| |killed.| wounded.|
----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------
Grenadiers (drawn from } 8 | 10 | 150 | { 150 } | 318
thirteen regiments) } | | | {about} |
17th 3 | 8 | 101 | 149 | 261
XVIIIth 12 | 13 | 86 | 185 | 296
Mackay’s 2 | 15 | 73 | 166 | 256
Buchan’s 4 | 9 | 65 | 140 | 218
-----+--------+-------+---------+------
29 | 55 | 475 | 790 | 1349
----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------

[24] See Appendix 2 (A).

[25] This was probably an Algerian pirate, one of the swarm of Moorish vessels which for centuries preyed upon the merchantmen of southern and western Europe. When they captured a European ship, the crew and passengers were carried off to Algiers and sold as slaves; if there were women on board, they were bought for the _harems_ of rich Moors. In 1816 England sent a great fleet to Algiers and after a very heavy bombardment, effectually crippled the sea-power of its freebooting population.

[26] In 1745 the XVIIIth had a somewhat similar experience at Mons. See p. 77.

[27] Millner.

[28] The engagement took place virtually on the same ground as the battle of Blenheim in 1704. French military writers always speak of the second battle as Hochstädt, which is confusing to the English student.

[29] From Parker we learn that the troops used to march off at 3 A.M.; about 9 they reached their camping ground, where “all manner of necessaries for man and horse awaited them, so that the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles and lie down to rest.” This admirable system, carefully organised by Marlborough, whose care for his soldiers astonished his foreign colleagues, naturally came to an end after the army had passed out of the territories of the Allied Powers: once in the enemy’s country the British troops had to face many hardships.

[30] The regimental historians do not mention the strength of the detachment. Mr Fortescue states that the battalions on this occasion were made up of contingents of 130 officers and men from each British regiment.

[31] These were a battalion of the Guards, Royal Scots, and 23rd.

[32] ‘The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner,’ by M. de la Colonie (translated by Lieut.-Colonel W. C. Horsley), p. 185.

[33] The British losses given by Millner are practically the same as those adopted by Mr Fortescue (vol. i. p. 427). Sergeant Millner’s casualty return is worthy of reproduction.

(First Part.)
+-----------------+---------+-------------+---------+-----------
| | | | |
| Corps loss. |Colonels.|Lt.-Colonels.| Majors. | Captains.
| | | | |
+-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----
| | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W.
| German (Horse | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10
| and Foot) | | | | | | | |
| Hollanders | 2 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | 4 | 5 | 19
| Hanover | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10
| Hessians | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 11
| Britains (_sic_)| -- | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 12
| |----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----
| Total | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 26 | 62
+-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----

(Second Part.)
+-----------------+-----------+-------------+-------------+----------+
| | | | | |
| Corps loss. |Subalterns.| Sentinels. | Total. |Total each|
| | | | |K. and W. |
+-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+
| | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| German (Horse | 9 | 36 | 268 | 1130 | 284 | 1182 | 1466 |
| and Foot) | | | | | | | |
| Hollanders | 8 | 53 | 361 | 856 | 378 | 953 | 1311 |
| Hanover | 10 | 20 | 189 | 417 | 204 | 451 | 655 |
| Hessians | 3 | 14 | 91 | 195 | 97 | 223 | 320 |
| Britains (_sic_)| 16 | 58 | 420 | 1001 | 452 | 1084 | 1536 |
| |-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+
| Total | 46 | 181 | 1329 | 3599 | 1415 | 3893 | 5308 |
+-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+

Of the above corps there were of the lieutenant-generals killed 6, wounded 5; major-generals killed 2, wounded 2; brigadiers wounded 1.

[34] See Appendix 2 (B).

[35] See Map No. 1.

[36] The practice of compelling or inducing prisoners of war to enlist in the army of their captors lasted until the nineteenth century. During the great war with France we had in our pay battalions composed of subjects of every country into which Napoleon had carried his arms. The Emperor had drafted them into his regiments, and when they were taken prisoners they usually preferred to earn pay by enlisting in our army to languishing at Dartmoor or in the hulks. Not unnaturally they showed, as a rule, no great anxiety to meet their former comrades in battle, and usually found their way to the West Indies as garrison troops.

[37] Some French historians, while they admit Tallard’s folly in disregarding the opinion of his colleagues, deny that he used the expression attributed to him by Parker, and father it upon St Ruth at Aughrim.

[38]
(Table--First Part.)
-------------------+------+------+---------+---------+--------+---------
|No. of|No. of| | Lieut- | |
|Battalions. | | enant- | |
Corps. | Squadrons.|Colonels.|Colonels.|Majors. |Captains.
-------------------+------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
Britains | | | K. | W. | K. | W. | K.| W. | K. | W.
Foot | 14 | -- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 44
Horse and Dragoons| -- | 18 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3
+------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
Total | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 47
| | +----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
Other Allies. | | |
Holland’s | 14 | 19 |
Lunenberg’s | 13 | 25 |
Wirtemberg’s* | 7 | 12 |
Danes | -- | 22 |
Germans** | 18 | 92 |
(11 batts. Prussian | |
7 do. Danes)| | |
+------+------+--------------------------------------
Total. | 66 | 188 |
-------------------+------+------+--------------------------------------

(Table--Second Part.)
-------------------+------+------+---------+-----------+-----------+------
|No. of|No. of| | | |
|Battalions. | Subalt- | | |
Corps. | Squadrons.| erns. | Sentinels.| Totals. |Total.
-------------------+------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
Britains | | | K. | W. | K. | W. | K. | W. |
Foot | 14 | -- | 26 | 74 | 509 |1220 | 557 |1350 | 1907
Horse and Dragoons| -- | 18 | 8 | 10 | 101 | 200 | 113 | 214 | 327
+------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
Total | 14 | 18 | 34 | 84 | 610 |1420 | 670 |1564 | 2324
| | +----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
Other Allies. | | | Officers and all | | |
Holland’s | 14 | 19 | stations included | 772 |1424 | 2196
Lunenberg’s | 13 | 25 | Do. do. | 824 |1580 | 2404
Wirtemberg’s* | 7 | 12 | Do. do. | 450 | 674 | 1124
Danes | -- | 22 | Do. do. | 102 | 200 | 302
Germans** | 18 | 92 | Do. do. | | |
(11 batts. Prussian | | | | |
7 do. Danes)| | | |1724 |2500 | 4224
+------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------
Total. | 66 | 188 | Do. do. |4542 |7942 |12,484
-------------------+------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------
* (Seven squadrons, three of Hesse)
** (of the Empire, K. of Prussia, Circle of Suabia, Wirtemberg,
and other places)

[39] See Appendix 2 (B).

[40] See Appendix 9.

[41] Cust’s Annals, vol. i. p. 51.

[42] See Map No. 1.

[43] Kane, p. 69.

[44] See Appendix 2 (B).

[45] Parker, 133.

[46] See Appendix 2 (B).

[47] Other contemporary writers say that a large number of soldiers found a miserable death in the sea of mud through which the army had to struggle.

[48] Owing to the number of villages dotted over the battlefield of Oudenarde it is almost impossible to give a clear description of it in words. Reference to map No. 1 will enable the reader to follow the letterpress without difficulty.

[49] In this cavalry affair the electoral Prince of Hanover, afterwards George II., in charging at the head of a squadron, had a horse shot under him. His rival, the Pretender, served at this battle in the French army.

[50] During the night a large number of French soldiers lost their bearings and strayed into the lines of the Allies. Eugene caught many of them by ordering the drummers to beat the French “retraite,” while Huguenot officers shouted out the rallying cries of various regiments. The unlucky soldiers who answered to the call were pounced upon, disarmed, and marched to the rear.

[51] See Appendix 2 (B).

[52] The Duke of Berwick was a natural son of James II.; he was in the service of France, and greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Almanza in Spain by defeating an army of the Allies, in which were a considerable number of British troops. Almanza has curious points of likeness to Fontenoy, for in both battles the British won a great local success, but being unsupported by their Allies were defeated at the end of the day.

[53] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 504.

[54] Millner remarks drily that after the French had flooded the country they thought “they had our Army in a Pound, but searching into the depths thereof they at last found themselves most snared therein.”

[55] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 506.

[56] See Appendix 2 (B).

[57] Stearne.

[58] See Appendix 2 (B).

[59] See Map No. 1.

[60] Students of the literature of the Peninsular War will remember frequent mention of the good terms existing between the British and French soldiers when they met on outpost. Things seem to have been much the same in the time of Marlborough, for Millner says that on the night before Malplaquet “several of both sides had frequent and friendly Commerce and Conferences with one another, as if we had been in an alliance together; but at last each man being called to his respective post, our Commerce was turn’d to, and swallowed up in blood, as in the Salutations of the day after appeared.”

[61] The Malplaquet roll (Dalton, vol. 6) gives the names of the officers who were at the battle of Malplaquet. The asterisks show those who fought at Blenheim, not necessarily in the XVIIIth regiment.

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel--R. Kane.*

Brevet Majors--M. Leathes* and F. de La Penotière.*

Captains--P. D’Offranville,* N. Hussey,* R. Parker,* W. Weddall,*
H. Wingfield, W. Leathes,* Ant. Pujolas,* Jas. Lilly.*

Captain-Lieutenant--R. Tripp.*

Lieutenants--S. Gilman, R. Ingoldsby, Jno. Blakeney,* B.
Devenish, John Cherry,* T. Carter, Simon Montford, E. Moyle, R.
Reed, Ch. Parker, Jas. Pinsent,* R. Selicke.

Ensigns--Jos. Young, Jas. Smith, Jas. Scott, R. Hawkins, T.
Broderick, T. Jennings, A. Forster, G. Halfhide, J. Eyre, J.
Hamilton, W. Hopkey, G. Mann.

Adjutant--R. Parker.

Quartermaster--Jacob Berger.

Chaplain--Rev. H. Reynolds.*

Surgeon--Thos. Young.

[62] Mr Callaghan, the historian of the Irish regiments in the service of France, throws grave doubts on the accuracy of Parker’s story, which however is corroborated by other officers of the XVIIIth.

[63] See Appendix 2 (B).

[64] Parker, who is corroborated by Stearne, tells a very curious story about the grain rations at Aire. After saying that the enemy had carried away all the wheat before the beginning of the siege, he continues, “but we met with a considerable supply, which I fear will scarce be believed by any but those that saw it. But fact it is, that the soldiers found concealments under ground, which the mice had laid up for their winter store, and that in such abundance, that it was a great relief to us toward the end of the Siege. These hoards were from four to six feet under ground, and in many of them our men found some pecks of corn.”

[65] See Appendix 2 (B).

[66] See Appendix 2 (B).

[67] See Appendix 9.

[68] It is not known whether any of the XVIIIth were included, but it is probable that Kane brought some of his old regiment with him to the post of danger.

[69] Sayer’s ‘History of Gibraltar,’ p. 295.

[70] Sayer, p. 197. It would be interesting to know if the staff officer who evolved the idea of thus “employing the unfortunate Israelites” was heavily in debt to them!

[71] Sayer, p. 204. This writer mentions that out of the sixty guns in position at the beginning of the bombardment twenty-three were dismounted in seven days.

[72] In 1732 Cosby was succeeded by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., who on his appointment three years later to a regiment of Guards was replaced by Major-General John Armstrong. See Appendix 9.

[73] See Map No. 2.

[74] The only mention of British losses at Ostend in the despatches is a casual reference by Cumberland in a letter, where he speaks of the seventy English soldiers taken by the French in the attack on the covered way.

[75] Continuation of Stearne.

[76] The origin of grenadier companies is mentioned in Chapter I. Light infantry companies were officially recognised soon after the end of the Seven Years’ War (1763); they were composed of small, active men, trained to act as skirmishers and in the outpost line. It was the custom to collect the flank companies of different regiments and turn them into provisional battalions: for instance, in the attack on the Terra Nova at Namur the grenadier companies of thirteen battalions were detached from their own corps and brigaded together; and, nearly a hundred years later, both the grenadier and the light infantry companies of the garrison of Boston were used in the same way at Lexington and Bunker’s Hill. After the Crimean War flank companies were abolished.

[77] See Appendix 2 (C).

[78] The engagement ought strictly to be called that of Breed’s Hill, but it has always been known as Bunker’s Hill, and will be, as long as the American War of Independence is remembered.

[79] The reinforcements sent to Prescott raised the number of provincials on the peninsula to about 4000, but in Washington’s opinion not more than 1500 were engaged at any one time during the day.--Trevelyan’s ‘American Revolution,’ vol. i. p. 363.

[80] Trevelyan, vol. i. pp. 359, 360.

[81] Some historians consider that this number should be increased to eleven hundred and fifty.--Fortescue, vol. iii. p. 159.

[82] See Appendix 2 (C).

[83] The following officers are shown by the muster roll as present at Boston on June 25, 1775:--

Major--I. Hamilton (in command).

Captains--J. Mawby, J. Shee, B. Chapman, J. B. Payne, B. Johnson,
R. Hamilton, C. Edmonstone.

Lieutenants--G. Bowes, H. Fermor, John Mawby (adjutant), W.
Richardson, W. Blackwood, E. Crossby.

Ensigns--J. Delancey, E. Prideaux, G. Bentricke, T. Serle, F. J.
Kelly, C. Hoare, W. Slator.

Quartermaster-- ---- Batwicke.

[84] Bunbury, ‘Narrative of Campaign in North Holland,’ pp. 3, 4.

[85] See Map No. 3.

[86] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth Regiment for the six months ending 25th December, 1793, gives the following list of officers:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--D. D. Wemyss, in command.

Major--J. Mawby (on leave).

Captains--W. Conolly, H. T. Montresor (recruiting), T. S.
Sebright (on leave), G. H. Vansittart (on leave), T. Probyn, D.
McDonald (on leave), J. Richardson, W. Gammell.

Captain-Lieutenant and Adjutant--R. Powell.

Lieutenants--J. Hope, T. G. Montresor (on leave), W. Morgan, C.
Dunlop, Sebright Mawby, H. Wolseley (on leave), W. Byron, T.
Mandiville (duty), M. Gamble, T. Holme (on leave), C. Grove, J.
Woodcock.

Ensigns--W. Johnston, T. Stuart, W. Iremonger, A. Steuart, W. R.
Rainsford (not joined), R. T. Bingham (duty), J. Woodcock, F.
Pennyman, G. Minchin.

Quartermaster--W. Musgrove (at Gibraltar for recovery of health).

Surgeon--C. Kennelly.

Mate--T. Jackson.

[87] Dundas, ‘Summary Account of Proceedings of Army and Navy at Toulon.’

[88] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. pp. 205, 206.

[89] See Appendix 2 (D).

[90] See Map No. 3.

[91] Maurice’s ‘Diary of Sir John Moore,’ vol. i. p. 82.

[92] The despatch and Moore’s diary differ slightly about this date, but they are in substantial agreement about the facts.

[93] The “Royal Grenadiers” may be an abbreviation of the grenadier company of the “Royal Regiment of Ireland,” as the XVIIIth was still frequently termed, or of “the Royals.” In the 2nd Battalion of the Royals there were at this time two officers called MacDonald, and in the Royal Irish a captain named Donald McDonald. If Moore was accurate in his spelling of the name, an officer of the XVIIIth shared with the future hero of Corunna the honour of being first into the Mozello. In this assault Lieutenant S. Mawby of the regiment is known to have taken part.

[94] The casualties may have been greater, for the losses in the grenadier and light companies cannot be traced. Lieutenant-Colonel Wemyss’s wound is not mentioned in the casualty returns.

[95] See Appendix 2 (E).

[96] See Map No. 3.

[97] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. p. 362.

[98] The “proof table” in the muster-roll for Christmas, 1796, shows that the regiment had only three hundred and eighty-seven officers and men “present,” while seventy-eight of all ranks were “absent”: with the corps, either in the mainland of Italy or in Elba, there were only fourteen officers, while twenty-five were on leave or employed elsewhere.

[99] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth for Christmas, 1796, was signed at Elba on April 9, 1797. Among the deaths appears the name of Lieutenant George Mallet, who died during our occupation of the island. When the writer of this history visited Elba many years ago, he noticed on the wall of the garden where Napoleon used to walk during his exile in 1814-15, tablets to the memory of two or three British officers. One of these bore the following inscription:--

“Near this place lyeth the remains of Lieutenant George Mallett of the 18th or Royal Regiment of Ireland who departed this life the 13th of January 1797 in the 18th year of his age.”

Thanks to the good offices of Mr M. Carmichael, H.M. Consul at Leghorn, and to the kindness of Lieutenant-General Count Simminiatelli, commanding the troops in Tuscany, this tablet has been presented to the regiment, and is now at the depôt at Clonmel.

[100] Pulteney had been known earlier in his career as Murray; he changed his name late in life. See Appendix 9.

[101] This sudden rush of troops to Gibraltar produced great scarcity of food. Eggs were sold at a shilling each, while “moderate-sized turkeys” found eager customers at £3, 10s.

[102] The conquest of Egypt was no new idea to French statesmen. In the middle of the seventeenth century, while Louis XIV. was revolving in his mind schemes for the aggrandisement of France, he was urged strongly, though unsuccessfully, not to seek expansion in Europe, but to make himself master of Egypt, and by establishing her pre-eminence in the Mediterranean secure for his country the trade of the Levant and of the East. See Mahan’s ‘Influence of Sea Power on History,’ pp. 107, 141, 142.

[103] Taken in 1795 from the Dutch, then allies of France.

[104] See Map No. 3.

[105] The expedition of 1799. Dunfermline’s ‘Life of Abercromby.’

[106] See Map No. 3.

[107] The historians of this campaign do not agree about the exact strength of Abercromby’s army. The figures in the text are summarised from those given in the Life of Abercromby, written by his grandson, James, Lord Dunfermline.

[108] Two field officers, 5 captains, 16 subalterns, 5 staff, 32 sergeants, 14 drummers, 449 rank and file.

[109] The following officers appear to have landed in Egypt with the regiment:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--H. T. Montresor (in command).

Major--T. Probyn.

Captains--W. Morgue, C. J. Dunlop, H. Snooke.

Captain and Lieutenant--G. Jones.

Lieutenants--J. Jenkinson, P. Hay, J. Hoy, W. Conolly, J.
Kennedy, R. Yeale, G. Gorrequer, W. Gunn.

Ensigns--F. Hill, H. Bruley, H. W. Beavan, T. Baylis, ----
Hutton, W. Brand, A. Deane, J. Smith.

Paymaster--R. Irwin.

Adjutant--T. Gregory.

Quartermaster--M. M‘Dermott.

Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

Assistant-Surgeon--W. Maxton.

Major S. Mawby rejoined from sick leave during the campaign.

[110] The 8th, 13th, XVIIIth Royal Irish, and 90th regiments.

[111] See Appendix 2 (F).

[112] If the statements of two of the officers who left accounts of the campaign are correct, this figure must be too low; Walsh in his Journal says that 1160 dead Frenchmen were counted on the ground on the afternoon of the 21st, while another writer states that 1040 of the enemy were buried after the battle.

[113] See Appendix 9.

[114] British--cavalry, 510; infantry, 4800 (among whom were the Royal Irish). Turks--cavalry, 600; infantry, 3600; with the combined force were twenty field-guns.

[115] See Appendix 2 (F).

[116] The following officers arrived with the regiment:--

Majors--R. Campbell (in command) and C. Dunlop.

Captains--W. Loscombe, H. Snook, G. Reeves, J. Graham, E. Walker,
J. E. Inston D. O’Farrall, R. Smyth, T. Murray, C. O’Gorman.*

Lieutenants--R. Huson, F. Hill, J. Janns, J. Stotesbury, G.
Andrews, A. Baker, R. Wild, P. Scott, R. N. King, R. Hutton, W.
Coulson, A. Deane, T. Barflis.

Ensigns--J. Whitley, J. Strang.

Adjutant--T. Gregory.

Quartermaster--J. Atkins.

Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

Assistant-Surgeons--F. Micklen and W. Carver.

* This officer began life as page to the ill-fated Queen Marie
Antoinette.

[117] Sometimes called Haiti.

[118] The officers who went out with the second battalion to Curaçoa were:--

Lieutenant-Colonel--J. W. Graves (in command).

Captains--J. Hoy, P. Bainbrigge, G. H. Gordon, E. H. Smith, R.
Percival, J. O’Connell.

Lieutenants--J. Aitken, J. S. Owen, J. Cowper, C. Maxwell, R.
Delachnois, W. MacDonald, R. Hopley, C. Carleton, F. Munro, J.
Aicken.

Ensigns--L. Hiatt, H. Kennedy, J. E. P. Langharne, E. Stackpoole,
T. W. Lowes.

Adjutant--J. Forrest.

Quartermaster--D. Cullen.

Paymaster--H. Salvin.

Surgeon--B. Cory.

Assistant-Surgeons--W. Seaman and W. Crofton.

[119] These figures, obtained from returns filed in the Record Office, are considerably lower than those given in Cannon’s History of the regiment. The names of the officers who died in the West Indies will be found in Appendix 3.

[120] These islands, acquired by Britain during the Napoleonic war, were ceded by her to Greece in 1864.

[121] Nine companies, consisting of 2 field officers, 7 captains, 16 subalterns, 3 staff, 35 sergeants, 11 drummers, 593 privates--667 all told. The following officers served with the XVIIIth during the whole or part of the China war:--

Field Officers--Colonel G. Burrell; Lieutenant-Colonels H. W.
Adams and J. Cowper; Majors R. Hammill, N. R. Tomlinson, W. F.
Dillon, J. Grattan, J. J. Sargent, F. Wigston.

Captains--C. J. R. Collinson, W. A. T. Payne, C. A. Edwards, J.
P. Mitford, J. C. Kennedy.

Lieutenants--Sir W. Macgregor, Bart., Sir H. Darell, Bart., A.
Wilson (adjutant), Hon. C. H. Stratford, G. W. Davis, S. Haly, J.
W. Graves, W. A. Gwynne, J. J. Wood, G. Hilliard, A. Murray, F.
Swinburne, T. Martin, H. F. Vavasour, D. Edwardes, S. Bernard, J.
Cockrane, A. W. S. F. Armstrong, J. H. Hewitt, W. P. Cockburn, H.
D. Burrell, C. Woodwright, J. P. Mayo, C. Rogers, W. Venour, E.
Jodrell, G. F. S. Call, C. Dunbar.

Ensigns--P. Simmons, E. W. Sargent, J. Elliot, M. J. Hayman, L.
M. T. Humphreys.

Paymaster--G. J. Call.

Quartermaster--J. Carroll.

Surgeon--D. McKinlay, M.D.

Assistant-Surgeons--C. Cowen, J. Baker, J. Stewart.

Only three of these officers had been on active service. Burrell had served at the capture of Guadaloupe in 1810 and in the war on the Canadian frontier in 1814; Grattan had taken part in the suppression of the rebellion in Canada in 1832; Dillon had been on the staff at the capture of San Domingo in 1809.

[122] See Map No. 4.

[123] ‘The War in China,’ by D. McPherson, M.D., pp. 21, 22.

[124] See Appendix 2 (G).

[125] Half the troops originally landed at Chusan are said to have died there.

[126] The Chinese always described their enemies from the western hemisphere as Barbarians or Foreign Devils.

[127]

COMPOSITION OF THE COLUMNS.

Other
_Right Column._ Officers.ranks.Total.
Major Pratt, 26th { 26th Cameronians 15 294 309
Cameronians { Madras Artillery 1 20 21
{ Madras Sappers and Miners 1 30 31
with one 6-pr., one 5-in. mortar.

_Left Column._
4th (Left) Brigade, { 49th Regiment 28 273 301
Lieut.-Colonel Morris, { 37th Madras Native Infantry 15 215 230
49th Regiment { 1 company Bengal Volunteers 4 112 116

3rd (Artillery) Brigade, { Royal Artillery 2 33 35
Capt. Knowles, R.A. { Madras Artillery 10 231 241
{ Madras Sappers and Miners 4 137 141
with four 12-pr. howitzers, four 9-pr. and two
6-pr. field-guns, three 5-in. mortars, and 152
32-pr. rockets.

2nd (Naval) Brigade, }
Capt Bourchier, R.N. } 27 403 430

1st (Right) Brigade, { XVIIIth Royal Irish 25 495 520
Major-General Burrell { Royal Marines 9 372 381
--- ---- ----
141 2615 2756

[128] This distinction won for Grattan a brevet-majority, and incidentally caused him to become the hero of a curious adventure. The ship in which he was returning from Calcutta took fire in the Straits of Formosa. The boat to which Grattan had been told off was fortunate enough to reach the shore, where her crew, passing themselves off as Americans, were claimed by the United States Consul at Macao, and by him sent on to Hong Kong.

[129] See Appendix 2 (G).

[130] This draft of 2 sergeants and 305 privates joined on June 8, 1841; the next, 152 rank and file, arrived about Christmas of the same year; the third, in June, 1842, was only 43 strong. The officers who died were Lieutenants G. W. Davis, S. Haly, and Lieutenant and Adjutant A. Wilson. The latter was succeeded in his appointment by Lieutenant J. W. Graves.

[131] ‘Life of Hugh, first Viscount Gough,’ by Rait, vol. i. pp. 209, 210.

[132] H.M. Paddleship _Nemesis_.

[133] ‘Doings in China,’ by Lieutenant A. Murray.

[134] The Chinese, like ourselves, have many orders, indicated by the colour of a button, which is worn as we wear the insignia of the C.B., C.M.G., &c.

[135] See Appendix 2 (G).