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Historical Record of the Thirty-first, or, the Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot; / containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1850

Chapter 20: FOOTNOTES:
By Richard Cannon
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The work provides an official regimental history of a single infantry regiment, tracing its origins, deployments, engagements, and organizational changes; it compiles battle and siege accounts, lists of officers, casualties, honors, and distinctions awarded, and records badges and trophies, alongside orders, service rolls, and explanatory notes. It combines narrative summaries of campaigns with official returns, casualty statistics, and citations of commendations to illustrate the regiment's actions and traditions, and includes prefatory material on purpose and methodology, footnotes, and appendices documenting sources and minor textual variants.

FOOTNOTES:

[44] By Order in Council, dated 26th October, 1604, it was directed, that twelve hundred land-soldiers should be raised, in order to be in readiness for distribution in His Majesty’s fleets; the whole to form one regiment, of six companies, under a Colonel, with a Lieutenant-Colonel, and Serjeant-Major; each company consisted of two hundred soldiers, with a captain, lieutenant, ensign, drummer, four serjeants, and four corporals. The regiment was armed with firelocks.

A subsequent Order in Council, dated 1st April, 1668, authorised the drawing of such numbers of soldiers from the Foot Guards, for His Majesty’s service at sea, during the summer, as the Lord High Admiral might require.

[45] In 1732 trustees were appointed by charter to superintend a new settlement in Georgia, situated to the southward of Carolina in America, and Mr. James Oglethorpe, General and Governor of the Province, embarked at Gravesend with a number of poor families to plant that Colony. In 1737, when the King of Spain claimed as part of his territories, the Colony of Georgia, which was considered to belong to Great Britain, General Oglethorpe was authorised to raise a regiment of six companies of 100 men each, for the defence of the settlement. The colonies of Georgia and Carolina had been named from King George II., and his consort Queen Caroline.

[46] Cape Breton was restored to the French after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It was retaken in 1758 by Admiral Boscawen and General Sir Jeffery Amherst, and finally ceded to Great Britain at the peace of 1763.

[47] A Fourth Division was added to the Establishment of the Royal Marines, by Order in Council dated 15th August, 1805, and stationed at Woolwich.

[48] The Laurel was authorised to be borne as a testimony of the gallantry of the Marines at the siege of Belle-Isle in the year 1761, and is encircled about the figure of the Globe on the Colours.