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

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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.

APPENDIX.

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List of Battles, Sieges, &c., in Germany and the Netherlands, from 1743 to 1748, during the “War of the Austrian Succession”	223
List of British Regiments which served in Flanders and Germany, between the years 1742 and 1748, during the “War of the Austrian Succession”	224
Memoir of the services of Colonel Bolton, C.B.	225
Memoir of the services of Lieut.-Colonel Skinner, C.B.	226
Memoir of the services of Major Baldwin	230

PLATES.

Present Colours of the Regiment	to face page	1
Wreck of the Kent East India Ship		80
Battle of Ferozeshah		128
Battle of Sobraon		152
Monument erected in Canterbury Cathedral, to the memory of the Officers and Soldiers of the Thirty-first Regiment, who were killed during the campaign on the banks of the Sutlej from December 1845 to February 1846		214