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Historical Record of the Sixteenth, or, the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848

Chapter 8: FOOTNOTES:
By Richard Cannon
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A chronological regimental history traces the formation of a British infantry unit in 1688 and follows its stations, campaigns, and organizational changes through 1848. It documents battles, sieges, expeditions, colonial postings, casualties and honours, lists successive colonels, descriptions of uniforms and colours, and reproduces official orders and plates. Arranged year by year, the account records deployments across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, administrative developments, and the regiment's ceremonial details, concluding with concluding notes and editorial corrections.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] The date when the facings were changed from white to yellow has not been ascertained.

[7] Beatson's Naval and Military Memoirs.

[8] Lieutenant-General John Skinner entered the army as an Ensign in the SIXTEENTH regiment of foot on the 4th of September, 1772, and rose to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel of that regiment on the 11th of April, 1805: he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army on the 25th of April, 1808: after performing the duties of a regimental officer, in the various situations of service, from 1772, to 1811, he was advanced to the rank of Major-General on the 4th of June, 1811, and was appointed to the staff of the army in the West Indies, on which he continued to serve until the 24th of March, 1816: he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General on the 19th of July, 1821: he died in 1827, after a continued and faithful service of forty-four years.

[9] Francis Godfrey was the son of Charles Godfrey, Esq., who married Miss Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II., and mother of James Duke of Berwick. Miss Arabella Churchill was the sister of John Lord Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Some pages at the front of the book have out-of-order roman numbering. Pages xxiii to xxviii are followed by i to xix. This has not been changed.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, foot-guards, foot guards; hand-grenades, hand grenades; piquets.

Pg 23, Sidenote '1783' inserted.
Pg 26, 'and assume the' replaced by 'and assumed the'.
Pg 32, 'at Chinsurha' replaced by 'at Chinsurah'.