Historical Record of the Seventy-fourth Regiment (Highlanders): Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1787, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1850 |
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Adjutant Ahmednuggur Alexander allied army April Argaum arrived Arthur Wellesley artillery attack authority to bear Badajoz battalion battle of Assaye brigade British Busaco Camp cantoned Captain casualties cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel colour and appointments column command Commander-in-Chief commenced companies conduct corps December detachments East Indies embarked enemy enemy's Ensign escalade February flank force FOURTH gallant gallantry garrison Gawilghur Governor-General in Council Honorable Arthur Wellesley India infantry James John July June killed and wounded Lieut Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell Lieut.-General Sir Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel light division Lord Wellington Madras Major Major-General Wellesley marched Marshal Marshal Marmont ments miles Mondego Mysore night non-commissioned officers numbers occasion October Officers Wounded Peninsula Peninsular War piquets Portuguese position rank and file regiment has received regimental colour retreat river September Seringapatam Serjeant SEVENTY Seventy-fourth Highlanders SEVENTY-FOURTH regiment siege Sir Archibald Campbell Sir Thomas Picton skirmishers soldiers Swinton third division troops village Vittoria William
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Page viii - Caesar's favourite tenth legion. Their arms consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons of rude construction. They had chariots, to the axles of which were fastened sharp pieces of iron resembling scythe-blades, and infantry in long chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and fought on foot, and for change of ground, pursuit or retreat, sprang into the chariot and drove off with the speed of cavalry. These inventions were, however, unavailing against Caesar's legions: in the course of...
Page 68 - Nor would I be understood to select these as pre-eminent ; many and signal were the other examples of unbounded devotion, some known, some that will never be known; for in such a tumult much passed unobserved, and often the observers fell themselves ere they could bear testimony to what they saw; but no age, no nation, ever sent forth braver troops to battle than those who stormed Badajos.
Page 27 - I went out to push forward the pickets of the infantry to support the Mysore cavalry, and to take up the ground of our encampment, I could perceive distinctly a long line of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, regularly drawn up on the plains of Argaum, immediately in front of that village, and about six miles from this place, at which I intended to encamp.
Page xii - Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again formed on the breaking out of the war in 1702.* During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were laid aside, and every infantry soldier was armed with a musket, bayonet, and sword ; the grenadiers ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades ; and the regiments were directed to lay aside their third colour : the corps of Royal Artillery was first added to the Army in this reign. About the year 1745, the men of the battalion companies of infantry...
Page 21 - ... and the great loss we sustained was in these two bodies. Another evil which resulted from this mistake, was the necessity of introducing the cavalry into the cannonade and the action long before it was time ; by which that corps lost many men, and its unity and efficiency, that I intended to bring forward in a close pursuit at the heel of the day.
Page xvii - British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not how to yield, — that no circumstances can appal, — and that will ensure victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human means. active continental operations, or in maintaining colonial territories in distant and unfavourable climes. The superiority of the British infantry has been pre-eminently set forth in the wars of six centuries, and admitted by the greatest commanders which Europe has produced. The formations and movements...
Page 27 - I formed the army in two lines; the infantry in the first, the cavalry in the second, and supporting the right, and the Mogul and Mysore cavalry the left, nearly parallel to that of the enemy; with the right rather advanced to press upon the enemy's left. Some little time elapsed before the...
Page xvi - Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons ; but His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed on the consideration of every part of the army, that it has been a strict observance of order, discipline, and military system, which has given the full energy to the native valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the...