FOOTNOTES:
[6] “About nine o’clock in the morning, the enemy made an attack with a body of foot, supported by two bodies of horse, on the weakest and most westerly part of the outworks, and where were only one hundred English of Hamilton’s (Thirty-fourth) Regiment, who had that very morning come upon duty, from travelling forty leagues in the two foregoing days, upon mules; notwithstanding all which, they fairly repulsed the enemy.” Journal of the Siege of Barcelona.
[7] Boyer’s Annals of Queen Anne.
[8] Afterwards colonel of the regiment.
[9] History of Scotland by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
[10] Strength of the Thirty-fourth Regiment at the battle of Culloden, 16th April, 1746:
2 field officers, 7 captains, 15 subalterns, 21 serjeants, 15 drummers, and 399 rank and file—459 total.
[11] On being appointed to the colonelcy of the regiment in 1760, Lord Frederick Cavendish presented to the officers’ mess two handsome silver vases, which still ornament the mess-table of the corps.
[12] Beatson’s Naval and Military Memoirs.
[13] On the 22nd January, 1796, Private John Perry was promoted to serjeant for gallant conduct before the enemy.
[14] In this year Lieutenant-Colonel Cunyngham presented a handsome silver side dish to the officers’ mess, which is still in their possession.
[15] The brass drums and the drum-major’s staff of the French Thirty-fourth Regiment were captured on this occasion, and are now used by the British Thirty-fourth Regiment; and Serjeant Moses Simpson, the individual who actually took the staff from the drum-major of the French Thirty-fourth Regiment, is, at the period of completing this historical record, (September, 1843,) in the situation of barrack-serjeant at Northampton, and has been presented by the officers of the Thirty-fourth Regiment with a handsome medal, in commemoration of his gallant conduct.
[16] The “Conquer Hill” of Clontarf is celebrated in Irish history as the scene of a victory gained by the Irish over the Danes.