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By George Clayton Swiney

Compiled by George
Clayton Swiney

Published 1893
Simpkin, Marshall
, Hamilton, Kent

386 pages

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized May 17, 2006

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YEAR PAGE 1701 Introduction First period	1
regiments, colonels, marines
Raising of the regiment	4
quartered, regiment, seamen
First roll of officers 32nd Regiment	5
bellasis, richd, bourgh
Expedition against Cadiz	8
rooke, ormond, vigo
As Marines under Sir Cloudesley Shovel	14
nizza, parnell, darmstadt
Surprise of Gibraltar and its capture	15
landport, gibraltar, whittaker

Defence of Gibraltar	17
catalans, gibraltar, retake
Death of Brigadier General Fox	18
figueroa, spaniards, wounded
Attempt to storm the Round Tower	19
borr, cloudesley, galway
Siege of Dénia	24
almanza, subalterns, captains
Expedition against Isle of Cette	25

32nd Regiment on the Irish Establishment	27

Colonel T Paget transferred to 22nd Foot	29
huske, irishmen, brigade
Action near Dettingen	31
bruges, ghent, rhine
Attempted invasion of England	32
huske, flanders, cumberland
Campaign commenced Fontenoy	33
ligonier, fontenoy, majr
French repulsed on the Jaar	38
roucoux, duglas, zastrow
Battle of Maestricht Plain	41
hanoverians, batterys, comeing
War with France	45
privates, lieutenant, captain
Death of General Francis Leighton	46
rockingham, cator, tobago
Extract from General Johnsons diary	49
mutinied, regt, plymouth
St Domingo Siege of Burgos	51
wetherall, launceston, abercromby
Copenhagen Danish Fleet	56
ramsgate, hinde, frederica
Spanish revolution	60
disembarked, harbour, sicily
Extracts from Captain Eveleghs diary	70
walcheren, beveland, corunna
Walcheren Expedition	77
bexhill, walcheren, commanded
VIM CONTENTS	78
arapiles, nivelle, douro
Battle of Waterloo	118
picton, buonaparte, genappe
181G Return of the Regiment	127
kempt, birtwhistle, picton
Regiment inspected	142
sorel, britomart, corporals
Regiment frozen in	146
mooltan, whish, edwardes
Regiment at Peshawar	159
cawnpore, lucknow, oudh
The Regiment at Cawnpore	220
troopship, montmorency, mauritius
Formation of Territorial Regiments L	228
homfray, stabb, lucknow
Colonel G C Swiney assumed command	234
ismalia, poonah, evelegh
Roll of officers and men present at the engagement of Waterloo	290
studdy, steevens, fifers
Rolls of officers from Army Lists etc	299
suttie, lindesay, lieut
Regimental march and Cornish motto	314
coldstream, brevet, mooltan
Memoirs of officers	337
punjaub, sevastopol, cassan
Services of the officers	343
mahuta, kebir, egyptian war
List of warrant officers D C L I	386
shropshire, handsomely, guinea

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Corunna - Page 230
the first " name inscribed on your colours. In the great Peninsular war you " specially distinguished yourselves, and suffered heavy loss at Corunna.

Mahebourg - Page 218
The regiment remained until the 9th in barracks at Port Louis, on which day four companies proceeded to Mahebourg, and the head-quarters and four ...

Salamanca - Page 65
he had to considerably modify his plans and send the army up by different routes, with orders to concentrate near Salamanca. ...

Vigo - Page 12
The companies of the regiment under your * It a presumed that this refers to the battery which flanked the harbour, as Vigo itself was not attacked.

Port Louis - Page 221
On 20th September it proceeded to Port Louis, and Major WJ Anderson assumed command of the detachment stationed at Mauritius.

Allahabad - Page 212
In April the regiment was removed from Cawnpore to Allahabad, but again formed part of a column on field service in May, under Colonel Berkely, CB, ...

Burgos - Page 325
Colonel Hinde succeeded to that officer's brigade, which he commanded at the battle of Salamanca and at the siege of and retreat from Burgos. ...

Gibraltar - Page 316
of that regiment in recognition of his gallant services during the defence of Gibraltar in 1704, the appointment being dated 5th December, 1704. ...

Portsmouth - Page 77
The regiment landed at Portsmouth and marched to Hailsham, where it arrived in the middle of January, 1810, and received a draft from the 2nd ...

Waterloo - Page 128
On the march from Waterloo to Paris, a considerable number of men who had been slightly wounded, and others who had been employed in conducting the ...

Flushing - Page 337
the siege and capture of Flushing in 1811; the capture of the forts of Salamanca and the battle of Salamanca, where he was severely wounded, ...

Barcelona - Page 14
Prince Henry of Hesse Darmstadt (a younger brother of Prince George) proposed that an attempt should be made on Barcelona, and on the 29th the fleet ...

Genappe - Page 118
All that we suffered from was the " weather, as the rain fell in torrents ; we halted near Genappe and " Waterloo, it being the Duke's intention to ...

Badajoz - Page 80
In the meantime Badajoz had fallen amid much bloodshed. On 16th April the 6th division went to Portalegre, thence to Castello Branco, returning to ...

Dinapur - Page 164
To leaven this mass were the 32nd Regiment (one of only two European regiments then to be found between Meerut and Dinapur) and a weak company of ...

Madrid - Page 65
under Hope, with the object of drawing off the French from the Spanish armies as far as Madrid, that the feeling was far more in favour of the French, ...

Brussels - Page 121
The " prisoners were immediately sent off to Brussels, and it was their " arrival which convinced the timid that the British were not " getting the ...

Lourinha - Page 63
On the morning of 21st August, about 8 o'clock, Junot's army was first observed advancing along the road from Torres Vedras to Lourinha. ...

Torres Vedras - Page 63
Sir Arthur Wellesley urged the necessity of following up the advantage and moving with the utmost celerity on Torres Vedras ; but in vain. ...

Copenhagen - Page 326
He held a brigade command in the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, and his name was included in the vote of thanks from Parliament. ...

Fermoy - Page 106
it was Stationed for one month, and then marched for Fermoy, at which place one hundred men, who had enlisted for limited service, were discharged. ...

Dublin - Page 230
The 1st battalion remained stationed at Richmond barracks, Dublin, with a musketry detachment at the Curragh. Between January and May, three hundred ...

Delhi - Page 162
the general failed to realize the gravity of the position until it was too late ; in the meantime the mutineers made off in the direction of Delhi, ...

Darmstadt - Page 22
22 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE when, on the 13th, the Allies were driven back, losing their gallant leader Darmstadt, who met his death as he was ...

Plymouth - Page 71
At 12 a frigate signalled us into Plymouth. " Anchored about 6 o'clock pm" The thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted to the Army " for its ...

Toulouse - Page 327
He received the gold medal and two clasps for the battles of Busaco, Vittoria, and the Pyrenees, and the silver war medal with one clasp for Toulouse. ...

Bombay - Page 236
On arriving at Bombay, orders were received that the battalion would be stationed at Bellary and Madras. The battalion disembarked on 7th March and ...

Lisbon - Page 78
On its arrival it disembarked, and occupied quarters in the castle of Lisbon ; while there a draft from the 2nd battalion, consisting of three hundred ...

Peshawar - Page 159
The regiment remained at Peshawar the rest of the year. 1853. The regiment remained quartered at Peshawar until 16th December, 1853, on which date ...

Kingstown - Page 217
It remained at the Curragh until 28th June, on which day it proceeded by rail to Dublin, thence by rail to Kingstown, and there embarked, ...

Mandalay - Page 241
The various detachments returned to Mandalay between 1st April and the middle of May. The casualties during the Expedition consisted of one officer, ...

Madras - Page 236
On arriving at Bombay, orders were received that the battalion would be stationed at Bellary and Madras. The battalion disembarked on 7th March and ...

Bellary - Page 236
On arriving at Bombay, orders were received that the battalion would be stationed at Bellary and Madras. The battalion disembarked on 7th March and ...

Soignies - Page 33
To resist the design of the French the Duke of Cumberland, who had been appointed to the chief command of the allied army, assembled at Soignies, ...

Hanover - Page 32
moreover, King George was away in Hanover and the Duke of Cumberland, with the most serviceable part of the army, in Flanders. ...

Colchester - Page 133
Some time_after the regiment marched to Colchester, where it halted for twelve days, and then proceeded to Portsmouth and embarked for Guernsey and ...

Dover - Page 214
After being upwards of five months at sea, the regiment disembarked at Portsmouth on 26th August, 1859, and proceeded by rail the same day to Dover, ...

Pietermaritzburg - Page 219
proceeded on 2nd July en route to Pietermaritzburg, where it arrived on 5th July, leaving " G " company, under the command of Captain E. ...

Chichester - Page 12
detachments of Fox's marines at Midhurst and Chichester have been ordered to "be present and " assist in the removal and exchange of prisoners of war. ...

Gwalior - Page 368
Was in medical charge of a wing of the regiment in India up to the capture of Gwalior (mentioned in despatches, and thanked by the director general, ...

Calcutta - Page 178
This continued until reinforcements arrived from Calcutta, on the 30th of the month when the party of the regiment was allowed to return to Lucknow. ...

Pembroke - Page 234
The battalion was moved to Pembroke camp, where they were all together. The health of the regiment was further improved during their stay there. ...

Quebec - Page 143
The Britomart arrived in Quebec harbour on 24th July, the Hebe on 6th August, and the Perseus on the 8th. The 32nd Regiment now composed part of the ...

Toulon - Page 14
Information was brought to the fleet when at Hieres, that the French fleet, from Brest, was endeavouring to make Toulon, but Rooke deemed it wiser to ...

Falkirk - Page 29
at the battle of Dettingen, afterwards in Scotland, where he covered the retreat of the royal forces with his brigade, after the defeat of Falkirk. ...

Ulundi - Page 351
Served in v South African war, 1879; Zulu campaign, battles of Isandhlwana and Ulundi (despatches, London Gazette, 15th March and 21st.

Horsham - Page 76
The Jubilee of George III. was kept on the 25th October, 1809, and "at Horsham was celebrated 'in the most joyous, loyal, and benevolent " manner. ...

Glasgow - Page 220
On 6th June the depot companies, with the 90th Light Infantry, moved from Edinburgh to Glasgow, where they were quartered in the barracks at ...

Alkmaar - Page 325
In 1799 Major Hinde served in Holland, and was wounded at the battle of Alkmaar. In 1804 he commanded the experimental light battalions formed of the ...

Paris - Page 256
Our troops saw every variety of foreign military dress at Paris during the occupation, and it soon became evident to onlookers that the small ...

Edinburgh - Page 219
On the breaking up of the depot battalion system, the depot companies were removed from Winchester, on 22nd March, and arrived in Edinburgh on the ...

Galway - Page 20
Although denuding his own force, Galway now strengthened the expedition with his two regiments of Dragoons, and, in exchange for the recruit corps of ...

Castlecomer - Page 217
The first left the Curragh on the 29th, and the other the following day, halting for the night respectively at Athy and Castlecomer, and marching into ...

Mayence - Page 31
and pursuing their march by Ehrenbreitstein and Ems, and up the right bank until opposite Mayence, turned up the course of the Maine and reached ...

Lobez - Page 111
to " the frontier between the rivers Sambre and Maese On the 15th, "at daybreak, he attacked the Prussian posts at Thvin and Lobez, on " the Sambre. ...

Pondicherry - Page 48
Lucia was returned to France, also the settlements on the river Senegal and the city of Pondicherry, in the East Indies. ...

Brest - Page 14
Information was brought to the fleet when at Hieres, that the French fleet, from Brest, was endeavouring to make Toulon, but Rooke deemed it wiser to ...

Elvas - Page 80
On 15th March the 32nd Regiment camped at Elvas, where every preparation for the siege of Badajoz had been made. ...

Valencia - Page 14
On 21st May the fleet put into Alten Bay, on the coast of Valencia. Prince Henry of Hesse Darmstadt (a younger brother of Prince George) proposed that ...

Sittingbourne - Page 28
This company subsequently returned to Sittingbourne. In 1733, a secret treaty between France and Spain was made, the object of which was to prevent ...

Ostend - Page 32
concentrated at Aschel in May, but nothing was done, and in October the troops went back again to winter quarters at Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend. ...

Leira - Page 61
The battalion, having landed, marched to Leira on llth August, and on the 15th a skirmish with the enemy took place at Obidos, with trifling loss. ...

Rangoon - Page 240
After a very calm passage, the battalion arrived at Rangoon on 5th January, 1891, disembarking the following morning. ...

Port Said - Page 236
1876, to 14th June, 1881, came on board at Port Said, having travelled from Alexandria to visit his old regiment, and remained until off Ismalia. ...

Pamplona - Page 99
From Vittoria the 6th and 7th divisions were despatched to blockade Pamplona, and subsequently, when relieved in this duty by a Spanish corps, ...

Hitchin - Page 325
He died at Hitchin, on 2oth September, 1837, and was buried in the parish church, where there is a monumental inscription to his memory. ...

London - Page 340
which had been in a very precarious state, broke down altogether, and necessitated his return to England He died in London, on 2ist November, 1855, ...

Salisbury - Page 46
The regiment returned home in 1773, and was stationed at Wells; from thence they proceeded to Bath.f and in 1774 we find them in Salisbury, ...

Boxtel - Page 43
At the end of June, 1748, the camp was broken up and the troops went into Cantonments, Colonel Leighton's (32nd) regiment being at Boxtel together ...

Lahore - Page 150
partly in steamers, partly in native boats, reaching the place of landing the day after the right column which had moved from Lahore. ...

Obidos - Page 61
The battalion, having landed, marched to Leira on llth August, and on the 15th a skirmish with the enemy took place at Obidos, with trifling loss. ...

Fleurus - Page 111
His attacks were successful ; and General Ziethen, " whose corps had been at Charleroi, retired to Fleurus. Upon this " Blücher concentrated his ...

Luxembourg - Page 38
on 26th October the British and Hessians marched to Venloo, whence they proceeded to their winter quarters in the duchies of Limburg and Luxembourg. ...

Montreal - Page 144
However, there were some hard days before the regiment, for in 1837 it had been removed to Montreal, where the Canadian rebellion—styled " the ...

Portalegre - Page 80
On 16th April the 6th division went to Portalegre, thence to Castello Branco, returning to Escaldos de Cima, two leagues to the northwards. ...

Talavera - Page 331
the battle of Talavera, where he was severely wounded in both thighs; action of the light division at the bridge of Almeida, battle of Busaco, ...

Lessines - Page 36
Everybody knows," says a writer of the day, " that, after the " battle of Fontenoy, our army lay encamped at Lessines. ...

Windsor - Page 315
Edward Fox's first commission was dated at Windsor, ist September, 1679, by which he was appointed lieutenant to Captain John Richardson, ...

Genoa - Page 326
After the capture of Genoa, in 1814, he commanded there, and at Marseilles, until the British troops were finally withdrawn in 1816. ...

Bristol - Page 29
In January, 1735-36, the regiment was ordered to Ireland, and placed on the Irish establishment, marching from Canterbury to Bristol, the port of ...

Marseilles - Page 326
After the capture of Genoa, in 1814, he commanded there, and at Marseilles, until the British troops were finally withdrawn in 1816. ...

Guildford - Page 55
From Guildford it was ordered to the West of England, and stationed at Tavistock and Launceston. From Launceston the regiment removed to Bridgewater, ...

Berlin - Page 317
For some account of his services at Berlin, see Carlyle's Friedrich II. of 1'russia,.

Ithaca - Page 137
That part of the regiment which had remained at Zante till the end of 1820 proceeded to Santa Maura and Ithaca. In the month of July the head-quarters ...

Oldham - Page 338
He was Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1830, and represented Boston in Parliament 1821-26, and Oldham, 1837-47. He finally retired with the rank of ...

Canterbury - Page 29
In January, 1735-36, the regiment was ordered to Ireland, and placed on the Irish establishment, marching from Canterbury to Bristol, ...

York - Page 324
-'Is, in which he served as captain of light infantry, the campaign of 1793 and fart of 1794. under the Duke ot York; hut having got the rank of ...

Taku - Page 364
Served with the Queen's in the campaign of I860, in China, and was present at the action of Sinho, taking of Tangku, and the inner Taku fort (medal ...

Valladolid - Page 89
On 1st September lie quitted Madrid with four divisions, and marched through Valladolid, in the direction of Burgos, a fortress of great strength and ...

Bangalore - Page 375
marched through central India, from Bangalore to Calpee, in 1858, a distance of one thousand three hundred miles, during the hottest season of the ...

Peterborough - Page 21
But Peterborough again objected, and not until the 9th or 10th did he agree, and it was arranged that one of the outlying fortresses should be ...

Maastricht - Page 40
In the meantime the Duke of Cumberland posted his whole army between the two Nethes, to cover Bergen-op-Zoom and Maastricht ; Marshall Saxe called in ...

Leeds - Page 148
From Portsmouth the regiment moved to Leeds, owing to disturbances having occurred there, where it was stationed in 1843.

Marialva - Page 79
The 6th division remained in their cantonments until 1st February, when they fell back; the 32nd Regiment marched to Nave d'Aver, reaching Marialva, ...

Stafford - Page 37
On 4th December the duke's head-quarters were at Stafford, the young Pretender and the Highland army being at Derby and in its neighbourhood. ...

Wellington - Page 101
In his description of the progress of the attack, Wellington has left on record, " that he had the " pleasure of seeing the 6th division, ...

Outram - Page 347
relief and subsequent defence of Lucknow, defence of the Alumbagh under Outram, and fall of Lucknow (medal and clasps, and Victoria Cross). ...

Launceston - Page 55
From Guildford it was ordered to the West of England, and stationed at Tavistock and Launceston. From Launceston the regiment removed to Bridgewater, ...

Perth - Page 319
connection with any of the battles of 1745 ; but, when Scotland was divided into military districts, he commanded that having head-quarters at Perth. ...

Maryborough - Page 142
Carlow, Athy, and Maryborough. 1829. On Sunday, 10th May, routes were received for the head-quarters and four companies to march from Kilkenny to ...