Luxmore, 2nd Lt. C. de J. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299

  Lydenburg, 344, 355, 357-360

  Lye, Lt.-Col., H. S. (XVIIIth), in India, 228;
    in Afghan war, 230;
    in Egypt, 1882, 240;
    in Tirah campaign, 299, 303

  Lyon, Maj., 204

  Lysaght, Lt.-Col. A. N. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290, 291;
    in Boer war, 311, 333, 370

  M‘Bean, Col., Gordon Highlanders, 419

  M‘Carthy, Pte. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 139

  M‘Cullough, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  M‘Dermott, Quartermaster M. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110, 115, 388

  MacDonald, Maj.-General, in Boer war, 333, 340

  M‘Donald, Capt. Donald (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 99

  MacDonald, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  MacDonell, General Sir Alexander, K.C.B., Colonel of Royal Irish Regt.,
        231, 305, 422, 428

  Macdonnell, Ensign G. A. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  M‘Donnell, Lt. Hon. M. H. H. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  M‘Gill, Lt. T. M‘G. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  M‘Grath, Sergt. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 360

  MacGregor, Lt.-Col. M. J. R. (XVIIIth), 224, 231, 274-275

  Macgregor, Lt. Sir W., Bart. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  M‘Hale, Sergt. T. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Mackay, L/-Corp. ----, in Boer war, 365

  M‘Kee, Corp. George (XVIIIth), in Nile campaign, 265-266

  M‘Murdo, Colonel, 173

  Macpherson, Maj.-General Sir H. T., in Egypt, 1882, 236, 244, 249, 250

  Macqueen, Ensign D. R. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  M‘Queen, Brigadier-General J. W., in Hazara campaign, 290-298

  Mafeking, 313, 322

  Magersfontein, 312, 314

  Maguire, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Mahdi, the, 254, 255, 257, 279

  Maher, Pte. M. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365, 368, 369, 371, 405

  Mahomed Ali, 232, 253

  Mahoney, Col.-Sergt. T. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Mahood, L/-Corp. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Maidan, village of, 295

  Maillard, Capt. J. N. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Major, Pte. William (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Malakand, 299

  Malakoff, the, 175, 176, 183-184

  Mallett, Lt. George (XVIIIth), 104

  Malplaquet, battle of, 56-60

  Malta, 106, 107, 116, 120, 288

  Mamelon, the, 175

  Mandarins, the, 121, 123, 124, 131, 140, 143

  Mann, Ensign G. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Mansergh, 2nd Lt. J. L. O. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

  Mansfeld, F^r. Francis Van (R.C. chaplain of XVIIIth), Black Mountain
        campaign, 296

  Maoris, the, traditions of, 194-195, 198-200, 203, 210-213

  Maori war.
    _See_ New Zealand

  Marlborough, Duke of, campaigns of, 25-62

  Marmorice, Bay of, 107

  Marshall, Pte. Robert (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Marsin, Marshal de, 34, 35

  Marsland, Lt. E. A. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Martaban, storming of, 148-150, 153

  Martin, George, officer of the Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

  Martin, Lt. T. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Mashonaland, mounted infantry in, 307-308, 397

  Massachusetts, 79, 80, 81

  Matthews, Lt. J., R.A.M.C., in Boer war, 312

  Mawby, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Mawby, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Mawby, Maj. S. (XVIIIth), at Toulon, 95-96;
    in Corsica, 102;
    in Egypt, 1801, 110

  Maxton, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

  Maxwell, Lt. C. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  Maxwell, 2nd Lt. R. M. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Mayo, Lt. J. P. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Meath, Edward, Earl of, 4, 5, 9, 14, 16, 385;
    Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 424

  Meath’s Regiment, the Royal Irish known as, 1

  Memorials to those of the Royal Irish who fell in various campaigns,
        431-439

  Menin, capture of, 45

  Menou, General, 108-109, 112-114

  Meredith, Lt. T. B. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  Meritorious Service Medal, names of warrant officers, N.C.O., and men
        of the Royal Irish Regiment who have been awarded the, 405

  Metemmeh, 272

  Methuen, Lt.-General Lord, in Boer war, 312, 313, 323

  Meurant, Lt. J. W. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165, 179, 182, 392

  Mhow, great fire at, 303

  Micklen, Asst.-Surgeon F. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Milligan, Pte. P. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 248, 396

  Millner, Sergt. John (XVIIIth), 2, 28-29, 32, 39, 40, 44, 52-53, 57,
        60, 71-72

  Milner, Ensign E. C. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Milner, Capt. E. F. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299;
    in Boer war, 311, 335, 339, 352, 354, 370, 420

  Minchin, Lt. George (XVIIIth), at Toulon, 95, 387

  Minnitt, Lt. C. G. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Minorca, 66, 70, 87, 104-105

  Mitford, Capt. J. P. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Mohmands, the, 299

  Molloy, Quartermaster-Sergt. A. (XVIIIth), 405

  Monmouth’s Rebellion, 2

  Mons, 56, 60

  Montal, Lt.-General, 18

  Montford, Lt. Simon (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Montresor, Lt.-General Sir H. T. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 100;
    at Piombino, 103;
    in Egypt, 1801, 110, 115, 116

  Monument Hill, defence of, 348-355

  Moore, Bandsman (XVIIIth), in India, 288

  Moore, Lt. H. B. (XVIIIth), 223-224

  Moore, Ensign H. B., in India, 225

  Moore, General Sir John, in Corsica, 97-99;
    in Egypt, 1801, 108-115

  Moore, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
    in Nile campaign, 1884-1885, 260

  Moran, L/-Corp. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Mordaunt, General Sir John, Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 73, 422,
        426

  Morgan, Capt. W. J. F. (XVIIIth), in Nile campaign, 1884-1885, 260, 282;
    in Hazara campaign, 290

  Morgue, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110, 115, 388

  Moriarty, Capt. R. G. S. L. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299

  Morshead, Lt. P. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Morton, Sergt. Henry (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Mosse, Lt. J. F. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  Moulmein, 148

  Mounted Infantry in Boer war, Royal Irish section and company of,
        361-369

  Moylan Col.-Sergt. (XVIIIth), in Nile Expedition, 269

  Moyle, Lt. E. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Moyle, Capt. John (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Moyle, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

  Mozello, the, storming of, 98-99

  Mullingar, 9

  Munro, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

  Murphy, Pte. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 366

  Murphy, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 368, 371, 405

  Murphy, Corp. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Murray, Lt. A. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 129-130, 131, 134,
        135-136, 389

  Murray, Col.-Sergt. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Murray, General Sir James.
    _See_ Pulteney

  Murray, Captain T. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Mutiny in India, the, 189-192, 394

  Myat Toon, expedition against, 156-160

  Namur, siege of, 17-22

  Nankin, 137

  Napier of Magdala, Lord, 251

  Napoleon I., Emperor, 101, 106, 108, 116, 117, 120

  Napoleon III., Emperor, 162, 174, 184, 233

  Nassau, Prince, 27, 28

  Neapolitan troops at Toulon, 92-95

  Needham, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), 5;
    at Limerick, 7, 385

  Nelson, Admiral Lord, 96, 100, 102, 103-104, 108

  Newcomb.
    _See_ Newcomen

  Newcomen, Lt.-Col. G. (XVIIIth), 4;
    at Limerick, 9, 385

  New Zealand, the war in, 192-220;
    the second battalion on the line of communication, 201-206;
    at Orakau, 207-212;
    at Nukumaru, 214-216;
    affairs with the Hau-Haus, 217-220

  Nicolls, Lt. G. A. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Nicopolis, 111, 112

  Nile Expedition, the, 253-287;
    the voyage up the river, 261-269;
    the march across the desert, 270-278;
    the retreat to Korti, 278-285

  Nimeguen, 26

  Ningpo, 132-134

  Noblett, Capt. E. A. (XVIIIth), in India, 189;
    in New Zealand war, 194, 203-204, 215-216

  Nowlan, Quartermaster (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Nukumaru, affair of, 214-216

  Obeid, El, 255

  O’Bryen, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), 5

  O’Callaghan, 2nd Lt. G. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

  O’Connell, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  O’Connor, Sergt. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371, 405

  O’Donnell, Sergt. Edward (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 251, 404

  O’Donnell, Corp. Niel (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 182, 188

  O’Farrall, Capt. D. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  O’Hara, General, in defence of Toulon, 92-93

  O’Loughlin, Ensign A. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Omar Pasha, 163

  O’Neill, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  O’Neill, Pte. Nicholas (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  O’Neill, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), at Colchester, 306

  Orakau, the attack upon, 208-212

  Orakzais, the, 299

  O’Gorman, Capt. C. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

  Ord, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Orkney, General Lord, 59

  Ormond, Duke of, 63

  Ormsby, Lt.-Col. A. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 14, 22, 385

  Ormsby, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Orr, Major A. S. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
    in Tirah campaign, 299;
    in Boer war, 311, 348, 355, 359-360, 370, 419

  Orr, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  Ostend, 45, 51, 52, 74-76

  Otahuhu, village of, 217

  Oudenarde, battle of, 47-50

  Owen, Lt. J. S. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

  Owens, Capt. R. L. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

  Oxford, the regt.’s adventures at, 63, 64

  Paardeberg, 322, 362;
    Royal Irish Mounted Infantry at, 372

  Paardeplatz, the Royal Irish in the attack upon, 344

  Padaung, 153, 154

  Paget, Maj.-General A. H., 324-327, 330, 333, 338, 340

  Pagoda Hill, Tinghae, attack upon, 130-131

  Palmer, 2nd Lt. R., in Boer war, 312

  Panter-Downes, Maj. E. M., 309;
    in Boer war, 311, 318, 338, 356, 370

  Papoia, village of, 219

  Park, Lt.-Col. C. W., Devonshire Regiment, in Boer war, 355, 356-358,
        418, 421

  Parker, Corp., 1st Life Guards, 362, 363

  Parker, Lt. Charles (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Parker, Capt. Robert (XVIIIth), in Ireland, at Namur and in
        Marlborough’s campaigns; his journal of wars of William III. and
        Anne, 2, 21, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40, 44, 54, 58, 59, 60, 386

  Parker, Admiral Sir William, 137

  Parkyn, Lt. S. S. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Patea, 216

  Patterson, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Payne, Capt. J. B. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Payne, Capt. W. A. T. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Peake, Surgeon G. W., M.D. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Pears, Lt. M. L., Cameronians, 299

  Pearse, Lt. N. L., Derbyshire Regiment, 240

  Pearson, Robert, officer of Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

  Peebles, Sergt. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 366, 399

  Pegu, 152, 153, 160

  Pélissier, Marshal, 163, 175, 176

  Penotière, Capt. F. de la (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40,
        58, 386

  Pennyman, Ensign F. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 387

  Pensant, Lt. J.
    _See_ Pinsent, Lt. J.

  Percival, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  Percy, Lord, at Lexington, 81

  Philips, Capt. Chichester (XVIIIth), 5

  Philips, Ensign John, 5

  Phillip, ----, Asst.-Surgeon (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  Phillips, Ensign C. G. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Phillips, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Piercy, Lt. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

  Pigott, Ensign R. (XVIIIth), 5

  Pinsent, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Pinsent, Lt. James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 33, 58, 386

  Pocklington, Lt.-Col. G. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189, 227

  Pointz, Capt.-Lt. R. (XVIIIth), 5

  Polingue, in San Domingo, 117

  Poona, 190

  Poplar Grove, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 362, 366

  Porteous, Asst.-Surgeon C. E., M.D. (XVIIIth), in India, 189, 394

  Porter, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), 5

  Port Mahon, Minorca, 65, 66, 69

  Portmore, Lord, 69

  Porto Ferraio, Elba, 116

  Port Said, 236-239

  Potter, 2nd Lt. H. W. R. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299, 414

  Pottinger, Sir Henry, 122, 128, 133, 140

  Power, Mr, ‘Times’ correspondent, 270

  Power, Pte. ---- (No. 5914) (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365

  Power, Capt. Sir J. E. C., 5th battalion (XVIIIth), 370, 397

  Pratt, Surgeon-Major (XVIIIth), 288

  Prendergast, Surgeon J., A.M.D., in Egypt, 1882, 240

  Pretender, the, 46, 49

  Prescott, Col., of provincial troops, at Bunker’s Hill, 82-84

  Preston, Capt. F. (XVIIIth), 5

  Preston, Paymaster C. E. (XVIIIth), in India, 189

  Prideaux, Ensign E. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Pringle, Lt. F. J. S. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 219, 220

  Prinsloo, Boer General, surrender of, 341

  Probyn, Major T. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

  Prome, 153, 156-157, 160

  Pujolas, Capt. Anthony (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58, 72

  Pulteney, General Sir James, Bart., 105;
    Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 426-427

  Purefoy, Capt. B. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Putahi _pah_, 217-218

  Quarries, the, 175

  Radford, Drummer G. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 362, 365, 402

  Radigan, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 368, 371, 405

  Raglan, N.Z., 207

  Raglan, Lord, in Crimea, 163, 170, 175, 176

  Ramme, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Ramillies, battle of, 42-44

  Rangariri, 200-201

  Rangoon, 146-152

  Rathbone, L/-Corp. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 340, 371

  Rawal Pindi, 299

  Rawlinson, Fr., R.C. chaplain of XVIIIth, in Boer war, 317

  Record of Service of 1st battalion Royal Irish in 1901, showing
        movements in north of Transvaal from 12th April to 30th
        September, 418-421

  Redan, the, 175-184

  Reddan, Col.-Sergt. J. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Reddersberg, 322

  Redwood, Ensign L. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Reed, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Reeves, Capt. G. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Reger, Quartermaster and Hon. Maj. F. P. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312,
        340, 370

  Reignolds, Col. T. S. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 146, 149, 150, 152,
        153;
    in Crimean war, 164, 172

  Reit river, 363

  Reitvlei, 363

  Rewi, New Zealand war chief, 210

  Reynolds, Rev. Henry (chaplain to XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns,
        40, 58

  Rhodesia, section of Royal Irish mounted infantry in, 307-308

  Ricard, Lt. E. D. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165, 392

  Richardson, 2nd Lt. H. E. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Richardson, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85, 387

  Rickman, Lt. E. F. (XVIIIth), in Nile campaign, 261

  Ring, Bt. Maj. J. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189;
    in New Zealand war, 194, 201, 202, 207-208, 220, 394

  Roberts, F.-M. Lord, in Boer war, 314, 316, 323, 343, 347-348, 357

  Roberts, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

  Roberts’ Horse, in Boer war, 362, 363

  Robinson, Hon. Capt. and Paymaster P. A. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
    in Hazara campaign, 290

  Rocke, Maj. J. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 214-220

  Rogers, Lt. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Rogers, Lt.-Col. G. W. N. (XVIIIth), in India, 225;
    in Egypt, 1882, 240, 251, 252;
    in Hazara campaign, 289, 290, 298

  Rolleston, Capt. A. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 40, 385-386

  Rolleston, Capt. F. (XVIIIth), 5

  Rolleston, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 14

  Rosetta, 114

  Royal Irish Regiment, the, raised in 1684, 1;
    successive names borne by, 1-2;
    strange experience of the regt. at Colnbrook, 3-4;
    re-equipment of the regt., 4;
    reported by Schomberg to be the best regt. in his army, 6;
    wins distinction at siege of Limerick, 7;
    in battle of Aughrim, 12;
    turned into a marine corps for some months, 14;
    the regt. in the assault on Terra Nova, 19;
    William’s recognition of the bravery displayed in siege of Namur,
        20-21;
    Venloo stormed by, 27-28;
    detachment of, at the storming of the Schellenberg, 32-33;
    battle of Blenheim, 33-40;
    battle of Ramillies, 44;
    wins glory at siege of Menin, 45;
    first regt. under fire at battle of Oudenarde, 48;
    desperate gallantry of, at Tournai, 55-56;
    Parker’s account of the Royal Irish at battle of Malplaquet, 58-59;
    a detachment of, in defence of Gibraltar, 69-70;
    recruiting standard of, in 1731, 70-71;
    in Low Countries, 73-77;
    at Lexington, 79-81;
    bravery displayed by troops at Bunker’s Hill, 83-85;
    mutiny in Guernsey quelled by, 87-89;
    takes part in defence of Toulon, 91-95;
    in capture of Calvi in Corsica, 98-100;
    in the landing in Tuscany, 102-103;
    in the campaign in Egypt under Abercromby, 107-115;
    the second battalion raised, 116;
    and disbanded, 118;
    in the first Chinese war, 121-144;
    in second Burmese war, 145-161;
    in Crimean war, 164-188;
    in Indian Mutiny, 189-192;
    in the war in New Zealand, 194-220;
    in second Afghan war, 229-231;
    in the Egyptian war of 1882, 240-252;
    in Nile Expedition, 258-287;
    in the Hazara or Black Mountain expedition, 289-298;
    in Tirah campaign, 299-307;
    contingent of Royal Irish mounted infantry serves in Mashonaland,
        307-308;
    the regt. in the Boer war, 311-372;
    mounted infantry furnished by the regt, for service in the Boer war,
        361-369;
    casualty roll of the various campaigns of, 385-402;
    names of officers of, who died of disease in West Indies, 403;
    names of members of the regt. to whom the Victoria Cross has been
        awarded, 404;
    names of N.C.O. and men of, to whom distinguished conduct medal has
        been granted, 404-405;
    names of warrant officers and N.C.O. of, to whom meritorious service
        medal has been granted, 405;
    names of N.C.O. and men of, who gained good conduct medal between
        1849 and June 1902, 405-413, 414-415;
    South African kit of, 416;
    extract from Record of Service of first battalion in Boer war,
        418-421;
    succession of colonels of the Royal Irish and their biographies,
        422-430;
    memorials to those of the regt. who fell in various campaigns,
        431-439

  Royal Navy, the, at Toulon, 94-97;
    at Elba, 102-104;
    at Cadiz, 105;
    in Egypt, 1801, 110-111;
    in Chinese war, 125-140;
    in Burmese war, 146-151;
    in Crimean war, 187;
    in New Zealand war, 198, 214;
    in Egyptian war of 1882, 235, 237-238, 241;
    in Nile Expedition, 257, 274, 278-282

  Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland, name given to the Royal Irish
        Regiment at Namur by William III., 21

  Royal Regiment of Ireland, on Irish establishment in 1684--sides with
        James II.--joins army of Louis XIV., 21;
    meets Royal Irish Regiment at Malplaquet, 58-59

  Rundle, Lt.-General, in Boer war, 323, 330, 333, 340

  Ruremonde, 28

  Russell, Lt. J. J. R. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 204

  Russell, Sir William, letter to ‘Times,’ 177-178

  Russia, 162, 166-184, 186-187, 228-229

  Ryan, L/-Corp. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 328

  Ryan, Pte. J., No. 4129 (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 340, 371

  Ryatt, Asst.-Surgeon (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  Ryswick, Peace of, 23

  St Arnaud, Marshal, in Crimea, 163

  St Gillain, 76-77

  St Leger, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 2

  St Leger, Capt. S. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 310, 312, 361-363

  St Ruth, General, in Irish war of William III., 9-13

  St Venant, town in France, 60

  St Vincent, Admiral Lord, 103-104

  Salalieh, Egypt, 108

  Salisbury, Rhodesia, 307

  Salvin, Paymaster H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119, 403

  San Domingo, 117, 118

  Sannah’s Post, 322;
    Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 362-363

  Sargent, Maj. E. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 143;
    in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189, 225

  Sargent, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 389

  Sarras, 262, 263, 266;
    Royal Irish win Lord Wolseley’s prize for fastest voyage to Debbeh
        from, 269-270

  Savile, Colonel A. R., letter of General Gordon to, 185-186;
    valuable services in preparation of the history of the regiment,
        preface p. viii.

  Sarsfield, General, in Irish war of William III., 7, 11, 12

  Saxe, Marshal, 74

  Schellenberg, the, attacked by detachment of Royal Irish, 31-33

  Schomberg, Marshal Duke of, commands William III.’s forces in Ireland,
        5;
    his report on the regt., 6, 16

  Scott, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Scott, Lt. P. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

  Seaman, Asst.-Surgeon W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  Sebastopol, 163, 165, 166, 174, 183-185

  Sebright, General Sir John, Bart., Colonel of Royal Irish Regt., 422;
    biography of, 426

  Segrave, Lt. T. L. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

  Selicke, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Senekal, 332

  Senior, 2nd Lt. W. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311

  Serle, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Sessman, Pte. John (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Sewell, Ensign T. H. S. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  Seymour, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Shanghai, 137

  Sharman, Wm., officer of Royal Irish Regiment in 1736, 72

  Shaw, Lt.-Col. Hugh, V.C. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189;
    in New Zealand war, 194;
    awarded V.C., 214-215, 216;
    in Afghan war, 230, 231;
    in Nile Expedition, 260, 269;
    Lord Wolseley’s letter to, 270

  Shee, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Shellal, 261

  Shendi, 258, 259, 271

  Shere Ali, Amir, 229

  Sherlock, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in India, 225

  Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, the regt. serves as Marines under,
        14-15

  Simmons, Ensign P. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121

  Simmons, Quartermaster W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Simpson, General, in Crimea, 163

  Simpson, Maj. A. W. (XVIIIth) in Nile Expedition, 260

  Slaap Kranz, 340, 341

  Slabbert’s Nek, the Royal Irish in attack upon, 333-341

  Slator, Ensign W. (XVIIIth), in North America, 85

  Smith, Ensign ---- (XVIIIth), at Limerick, 9, 385

  Smith, Lt.-Col. ----, raid on Concord, 79-81

  Smith, Lt. B. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

  Smith, Capt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  Smith, Ensign James (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Smith, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

  Smith, Capt. St G. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Smith, Ensign Samuel (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Smith, Ensign T. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

  Smith-Dorrien, General, in Boer war, 343, 346, 349, 350, 352-355

  Smyth, Capt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Smyth, Maj. R. A. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312, 365, 367, 370, 397

  Snooke, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;
    in West Indies, 117, 403

  Soudan, the, 253-258, 286

  South African Volunteers, in Boer war, 362, 367

  South African war, the.
    _See_ Boer war

  Southwell, Capt. John (XVIIIth), at Namur, 22, 385

  Spencer, Asst.-Surgeon W. I. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Spens, Col., in Boer war, 353, 354, 419

  Spyer, Col. J. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
    in Nile Expedition, 260, 307, 310

  Stackpoole, Ensign E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 119

  Stacpoole, Capt. G. W. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165

  Stainforth, Quartermaster J. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Stanhope, Ensign (XVIIIth), letter to Major Gillman respecting, 72-73

  Stations of the regt. since its formation in 1684 to 1902, 375-384

  Stearne, Brig.-General Robert (XVIIIth), his journal of the wars of
        William III. and Anne, 2-60;
    Colonel of Royal Irish Regiment, 422, 425

  Stephenson, Capt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

  Stevens, Lt. C. M. (XVIIIth), in Nile Expedition, 260

  Stewart, Brig.-General, commands desert column in Nile Expedition,
        271-274

  Stewart, Col. D., 11th Hussars, sent with Gordon to Khartoum, 256;
    murdered by Arabs, 270

  Stewart, Surgeon J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 122;
    in Burmese war, 147

  Stormberg, 312

  Stotesbury, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Strang, Ensign J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

  Stratford, Lt. Hon. C. H. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

  Stroud, Capt. Joseph (XVIIIth), 5;
    in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Suakim, 257, 281

  Suckling, Lt. F. H. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

  Suez, 108

  Suez Canal, 232-240

  Sumpter, Paymaster L. T. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Swaby, Lt. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

  Swat Valley, tribes of, attack post at Malakand, 299

  Sweeney, Pte. W. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 364-365, 371, 405

  Swinburne, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 141, 389

  Swinburn, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189

  Swindley, Ensign A. R. H. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Sydney, Australia, 222-223

  Symonds, Lt. G. H. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
    in India, 288

  Tabaksberg, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 368

  Tallard, Marshal de, 33-40

  Tanjur cataract, 264

  Tank, town, 228

  Tantia Tope, 191

  Tartars, the, 122;
    attack Ningpo, 133-141

  Taylor, R., Surgeon’s Mate (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Taylor, Capt. W. O’B. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165, 179, 182, 188;
    in India, 189, 392

  Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 238, 241-250

  Terry, Maj., in Egypt, 1882, 240

  Tewfik, Khedive, 234, 235, 253-257

  Thabanchu, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366

  Thacker, Lt. W. F. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194

  Theobald, Lt. J. S. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165;
    in India, 189

  Thomlinson, Maj. W. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Thompson, 2nd Lt. D. M. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230

  Thompson, Lt. E. H. B., ---- batt. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 372

  Timmins, Drummer Joseph (XVIIIth), 193

  Timsah, lake, 238, 241

  Tinghae, 123, 130-132

  Tirah campaign, the, 299-303, 414-415

  Tizard, Lt. H. E., Royal Munster Fusiliers, 299

  Tobin, L/-Corp. M. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 365, 371

  Tochi valley, attack by tribesmen of, upon British officer and his
        escort, 298-299

  Tod, Bandsman (XVIIIth), in India, 288

  Todleben, General, splendid defence of Sebastopol by, 166-167, 173-176

  Tomah, storming of stockade at, 154

  Tomlinson, Lt.-Col. N. R. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 134-136, 389

  Toohey, Sergt.-Maj. William (XVIIIth), 405

  Toppin, Maj. J. M. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240

  Torres, Count de las, attacks Gibraltar, 66-70

  Toulon, defence of, 90-95;
    evacuation of, 95-97, 387

  Tournai, siege of, 55-56, 386

  Trains, instructions issued for the defence of, in South Africa, 417

  Treasury, the, public indignation with shortcomings of, in Crimean war,
        173

  Tripp, Capt.-Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

  Tufnell, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
    in Nile Expedition, 260

  Turenne, Marshal de, 3

  Turkey, co-operation of, with England in expedition of 1801 to Egypt,
        107;
    the Crimean war, 162

  Tyrconnel, Earl of, devises reserve system, 2;
    officers of the regt. disbanded by, 4, 5;
    collects troops for James II., 5

  Ughi, 291

  Underhill, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

  Usher, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), 5

  Vandaleur, 2nd Lt. T. B. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 312

  Varna, landing of allied forces at, in 1854, 162

  Vauban, towns fortified by, 17, 45, 51

  Vauclin, Capt. W.
    _See_ Vaughan, Capt. W.

  Vaudemont, Prince de, covering operations at siege of Namur, 17-19

  Vaughan, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 386

  Vavasour, Lt. H. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 123, 141, 389

  Veale, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110

  Vendôme, Marshal de, commander of French army in Flanders, 45-50

  Venloo, storming of, 27-28

  Venour, Lt. W. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139

  Victoria Cross, names of members of Royal Irish Regt, who have been
        awarded the, 404

  Victoria, Queen, 164, 187, 302, 303

  Vigors, Capt. P. U. (XVIIIth), 309;
    in Boer war, 312, 361, 371

  Viljoen, General Ben., attacks Monument Hill, 349;
    captured by Major Orr, Royal Irish Regt., 359-360

  Villars, Marshal de, operations of, against Marlborough, 41, 55, 56-60,
        61

  Villeroi, Marshal de, operations of, against William III., 17-18, 22;
    against Marlborough, 41-42, 45-46

  Wadi Haifa, 259, 261

  Walker, Lt. C. W. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290

  Walker, Maj. E. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117;
    at San Domingo, 118

  Wallace, L/-Sergt. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 371

  Walsh, Ensign Edward (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 33, 40, 386

  Walsh, Ensign Henry (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Ward, Pte. ---- (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 363

  Ward, Lt. A. T. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1882, 240;
    in Hazara campaign, 290

  Ward, Lieut. H. A. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165

  War Office, the, public indignation against, owing to shortcomings in
        Crimean war, 173

  War with American Colonists, the, raid against Concord, 79-81;
    Bunker’s Hill, 81-85, 87, 387

  Waterford, 7, 9

  Waters, Surgeon G. B. (XVIIIth), in Egypt, 1801, 110;
    in West Indies, 117

  Watkins, Lt. F. M. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299

  Watt, Lt. T. (XVIIIth), in India, 189, 394

  Watt, Sergt.-Maj. T. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188

  Weddall, Capt. W. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40, 58, 386

  Weddell, Capt. W.
    _See_ Weddall, Capt. W.

  Weir, Pte. J. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 182, 188

  Welch, Lt. M. H. E. (XVIIIth), in Boer war, 311, 367, 370, 398

  Weldon, Surgeon R. (XVIIIth), 5;
    in Marlborough’s campaigns, 40

  Weldon, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

  Welkom, mounted infantry of Royal Irish at, 366-367

  Wellington, Duke of, on our military weakness in 1846, 163

  Wemyss, Lt.-Col. D. D. (XVIIIth), in Corsica, 97;
    at siege of Calvi, 99, 100;
    in expedition to Piombino, 102-103

  Wepener, 322

  West, Lt. H. (XVIIIth), 5

  West Indies, 117, 118, 119;
    names of officers of the regt. who died in, from 1805 to 1816, 403

  Whelan, Pte. P., No. 2830 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  Whelan, Pte. P., No. 3521 (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 188, 404

  White, Sir George, in defence of Ladysmith, 313

  White, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in Tirah campaign, 299;
    in Boer war, 311, 335, 356-357

  Whitfield, Capt. W. H. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Whitley, Lt. J. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117, 403

  Wigston, Maj. F. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 139;
    in Burmese war, 147, 157, 160

  Wilbraham, Ensign T. (XVIIIth), 5

  Wild, Lt. R. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 117

  Wilders, Lt. S. (XVIIIth), in West Indies, 403

  Wiley, Lt. I. (XVIIIth), in India, 189

  Wilford, Lt. E. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  Wilkinson, Capt. Cuthbert (XVIIIth), 5

  Wilkinson, Capt. J. G. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147;
    in Crimean war, 165, 182, 392

  William III., King, 1-9, 16-21

  Williams, Lt. B. C. W., Yorkshire Regt., 299

  Williams, Capt. T. Warwick, 5th V.B. King’s Liverpool Regt., 312, 330,
        370, 398

  Willington, Lt. F. (XVIIIth), in Burmese war, 147

  Willis, Lt.-General G. H. S., in Egypt, 1882, 236, 241-242

  Wilson, Lt. and Adjutant A. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121, 128, 141,
        389

  Wilson, Lt. A. I. (XVIIIth), in Afghan war, 230;
    in Nile Expedition, 260

  Wilson, Col. Sir Charles, in Nile Expedition, 272, 274, 278

  Wilson, Lt.-Col. S. (XVIIIth), 223-224

  Wilson, Lt.-General Sir John, Colours presented to the regt. by, 121

  Wilton, Lt. E. H. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  Winburg, 323, 367

  Wingfield, Capt. H. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Withers, General, at Malplaquet, 58

  Wittebergen Mountains, 332

  Wolseley, F.-M. Viscount, K.P., G.C.B., &c., amusing account of his
        experience as a subaltern, 154-156;
    wounded in Burmah, 160;
    in Crimea, vi;
    in Egypt, 1882, 236-251;
    in Nile Expedition, 257-287, 302;
    speech on presentation of new colours, 306-307;
    Colonel-in-Chief of Royal Irish Regt., 422-423

  Wolseley, Ensign J. R. (XVIIIth), in Crimean war, 165

  Wood, Capt. J. J. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;
    in Burmese war, 147, 152

  Woodwright, Col. C. (XVIIIth), in Chinese war, 121;
    in Burmese war, 147, 151, 158, 160

  Woosung, capture of, 137

  Worsopp, Capt. J. (XVIIIth), 5

  Wray, Lt.-Col. T. C. (XVIIIth), in New Zealand war, 194, 202;
    in Nile Expedition, 260, 261-262, 286, 289

  Wright, Rev. ---- (Chaplain to XVIIIth), in Boer war, 317

  Wynne, Lt. G. O. R. (XVIIIth), in Hazara campaign, 290, 298

  Yang-Tse-Kiang, 128, 135, 136-137, 141

  Yarner, Maj.-General Abraham, certificate given by, as to formation of
        the regt. in 1684, 16

  Yarner, Capt. John (XVIIIth), 5

  Yeatman-Biggs, Maj.-General, in Tirah campaign, 299-301

  Young, Ensign Jos. (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Young, Surgeon Thomas (XVIIIth), in Marlborough’s campaigns, 58

  Zag-a-zig, Egypt, important railway junction at, 238, 244, 249, 250

  Zand river, Royal Irish section of mounted infantry at, 363

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Appendix 9.

[2] In Appendix No. 1 is given a list of the stations where the
regiment has been quartered in time of peace.

[3] Brigadier-General Robert Stearne, Brigadier-General Richard Kane,
Captain Robert Parker, and Sergeant John Millner, all of the Royal
Irish regiment, wrote histories or journals of the wars of William
III. and of Anne.

[4] An order to the Master-General of Ordnance, dated 14th February
1689, for the re-equipment of the regiment, gives these figures--

                       Firelocks.
                              Pikes.                              Tents.
                                  Halberts.                 Flints.
                                         Drums.      Bayonets.
                                             Bandalers
                                               (=i.e.
                                            Bandoliers.)

  The full number      }
    of arms for the    }  579   240   39   26    516   579   1000   156
    regiment           }

  Whereof the officers }
    have already       }   60     0    7    5     16    79      0     0

  Remain to complete   }
    the regiment       }  519   240   32   21    500   500   1000   156

[5] See Appendix 9.

[6] See Appendix 9.

[7] (The names followed by a star are those of officers who had been
disbanded by Tyrconnel.)

  Colonel--Edward, Earl of Meath.

  Lieutenant-Colonel--G. Newcomen (sometimes spelled Newcomb).

  Major--Fred^k. Hamilton.*

  Captains--Robert Stearne, F. Preston, Chichester Philips,* J.
  Worsopp, G. Hamilton, Parsons Hoy*, Cuth^t. Wilkinson, John
  Yarner,* R. Needham, F. Rolleston.

  Captain-Lieutenant--R. Pointz.*

  Lieutenants--W. Flower,* G. Connock, Ant. Brabazon, W. Usher,*
  J. Porter, Peter Latham,* Ch. Hubblethorne,* H. West, John
  Culliford,* N. Carteret,* Ch. Brabazon, Robert Blakeney,* W.
  Underhill.

  Ensigns--J. O’Bryen, J. I. Chichester, G. Brabazon, T. Weldon,*
  T. Allen, John Philips, Ed. Corker, J. Stroud, J. Leigh, H.
  Brabazon, T. Wilbraham, R. Kane, R. Pigott.

  Surgeon--R. Weldon.

  --(Dalton’s British Army Lists and Commission Registers.)

[8] Although the regular regiments were now numbered, it continued
to be the fashion for many years to ignore their numbers and call
them by the names of their colonels. At the risk of committing an
anachronism, the author will at once adopt the modern system, and
write of the regiment as the XVIIIth or the Royal Irish.

[9] Walton’s ‘History of the British Standing Army,’ p. 135.

[10] See Appendix 2 (A).

[11] Thanks to the industry of Mr Dalton, the compiler of ‘British
Army Lists and Commission Registers,’ it is possible to trace with
some degree of accuracy the casualties among the officers of the
regiment in many, though by no means all the battles and sieges
between 1690 and 1712.

[12] In this and many other quotations from the regimental historians
the dates are according to the “old style,” and do not correspond
with those in this book, which are in the “new style.”

[13] See Appendix 2 (A).

[14] Story’s Continuation.

[15] See Appendix 9.

[16] Stearne.

[17] See Map No. 2.

[18] A letter preserved among the archives of the Brabazon family
shows that as early as 1689 the Earl of Meath was trying to obtain
for his regiment its proper place in the army.

  _To_ WILLIAM BLATHWAYTE Esq.
  Secretary att warr
  att his house in Snt James Parke
  London.

  LISNEGARNEY _Alias_ LISBURNE
  _Nov. ye 18th (89)_
  DUKE SCHOMBERG’S HED QUARTERS
  IRELAND.

  Upon my Request to Duke Schomberg Concerning y^e post of my
  Regiment; he told mee all the oather Regiments was posted as y^e
  King had ordered him; of which he could make no allteraction tell
  he knew farther his Mag^{ties} pleashure in y^e pertickuler of
  Myne; his Grace appoynted Count Soalmes to enquier farther into
  this matt^r & since by y^e Dukes appoyntment bid me give you y^e
  State of my Case; which y^e Enclosed Certyfies by our Commissary
  Generall, (Yarner,) & y^t when you ofered it before y^e King he
  doubted not but y^t you would procure me an order, to be posted
  as appeeres by y^e Inclosed. I beg y^e favour in y^e affaire, &
  y^t you will give me a line in ansewer directed to me in this
  place; which will be a great kindnesse dun to

  Y^e asshured ffaith^{ll} servant
  MEATH.

  I doe hereby Certifie that the R^t. hon^{ble} the Earle of
  Granard’s Regiment of foot was form’d into a Regiment the first
  of April 1684, which was afterwards given to his son the Lord
  Forbese, and afterwards, as I am informed, to S^r John Edgworth,
  and now to the R^t hon^{ble} the Earle of Meath; Dated this 27
  day of September 1689.

  ABR: YARNER
  _must^r Gen^{ll} of their_
  _Maj^{ts} Forces in Ireland_.

[19] Surely the highest compliment ever paid to the Intelligence
Department of an Army!

[20] The modern names of the old numbered regiments are given in
Appendix 11.

[21] _I.e._, Prussians.

[22] When Lord Granard raised the regiment in 1684 a corps of Foot
Guards, called the Royal Regiment of Ireland, was on the Irish
establishment; in the war between James II. and William III. it sided
with the Stuart King, and after the surrender of Limerick it sailed
for France to join the army of Louis XIV., where it retained its
old name in its new service. The regiments were destined to meet at
Malplaquet in 1709.

[23]

  ----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------
         Regiment.         Officers |Officers| Other |  Other  |
                            killed. |wounded.| ranks |  ranks  |Total.
                                    |        |killed.| wounded.|
  ----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------
  Grenadiers (drawn from }        8 |   10   |  150  | { 150 } |  318
    thirteen regiments)  }          |        |       | {about} |
  17th                            3 |    8   |  101  |   149   |  261
  XVIIIth                        12 |   13   |   86  |   185   |  296
  Mackay’s                        2 |   15   |   73  |   166   |  256
  Buchan’s                        4 |    9   |   65  |   140   |  218
                               -----+--------+-------+---------+------
                                 29 |   55   |  475  |   790   | 1349
  ----------------------------------+--------+-------+---------+------

[24] See Appendix 2 (A).

[25] This was probably an Algerian pirate, one of the swarm of
Moorish vessels which for centuries preyed upon the merchantmen of
southern and western Europe. When they captured a European ship, the
crew and passengers were carried off to Algiers and sold as slaves;
if there were women on board, they were bought for the _harems_ of
rich Moors. In 1816 England sent a great fleet to Algiers and after
a very heavy bombardment, effectually crippled the sea-power of its
freebooting population.

[26] In 1745 the XVIIIth had a somewhat similar experience at Mons.
See p. 77.

[27] Millner.

[28] The engagement took place virtually on the same ground as the
battle of Blenheim in 1704. French military writers always speak of
the second battle as Hochstädt, which is confusing to the English
student.

[29] From Parker we learn that the troops used to march off at 3
A.M.; about 9 they reached their camping ground, where “all manner
of necessaries for man and horse awaited them, so that the soldiers
had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles and
lie down to rest.” This admirable system, carefully organised by
Marlborough, whose care for his soldiers astonished his foreign
colleagues, naturally came to an end after the army had passed out of
the territories of the Allied Powers: once in the enemy’s country the
British troops had to face many hardships.

[30] The regimental historians do not mention the strength of the
detachment. Mr Fortescue states that the battalions on this occasion
were made up of contingents of 130 officers and men from each British
regiment.

[31] These were a battalion of the Guards, Royal Scots, and 23rd.

[32] ‘The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner,’ by M. de la Colonie
(translated by Lieut.-Colonel W. C. Horsley), p. 185.

[33] The British losses given by Millner are practically the same as
those adopted by Mr Fortescue (vol. i. p. 427). Sergeant Millner’s
casualty return is worthy of reproduction.

           (First Part.)
  +-----------------+---------+-------------+---------+-----------
  |                 |         |             |         |
  |    Corps loss.  |Colonels.|Lt.-Colonels.| Majors. | Captains.
  |                 |         |             |         |
  +-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----
  |                 | K. | W. |  K. |   W.  | K. | W. |  K. | W.
  | German (Horse   | 1  | 2  |  1  |   1   | 1  |  3 |  4  | 10
  |     and Foot)   |    |    |     |       |    |    |     |
  | Hollanders      | 2  | 1  |  2  |   --  | -- |  4 |  5  | 19
  | Hanover         | 1  | -- |  -- |   2   | 1  |  2 |  2  | 10
  | Hessians        | -- | 2  |  2  |   --  | -- |  1 |  2  | 11
  | Britains (_sic_)| -- | 2  |  2  |   6   | 1  |  5 | 13  | 12
  |                 |----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----
  |        Total    | 4  | 7  |  7  |   9   | 3  | 15 | 26  | 62
  +-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+----+----+-----+-----

           (Second Part.)
  +-----------------+-----------+-------------+-------------+----------+
  |                 |           |             |             |          |
  |    Corps loss.  |Subalterns.| Sentinels.  |    Total.   |Total each|
  |                 |           |             |             |K. and W. |
  +-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+
  |                 |  K. |  W. |  K.  |  W.  |   K. |  W.  |          |
  | German (Horse   |  9  |  36 |  268 | 1130 |  284 | 1182 |  1466    |
  |     and Foot)   |     |     |      |      |      |      |          |
  | Hollanders      |  8  |  53 |  361 |  856 |  378 |  953 |  1311    |
  | Hanover         | 10  |  20 |  189 |  417 |  204 |  451 |   655    |
  | Hessians        |  3  |  14 |   91 |  195 |   97 |  223 |   320    |
  | Britains (_sic_)| 16  |  58 |  420 | 1001 |  452 | 1084 |  1536    |
  |                 |-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+
  |        Total    | 46  | 181 | 1329 | 3599 | 1415 | 3893 |  5308    |
  +-----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+----------+

Of the above corps there were of the lieutenant-generals killed 6,
wounded 5; major-generals killed 2, wounded 2; brigadiers wounded 1.

[34] See Appendix 2 (B).

[35] See Map No. 1.

[36] The practice of compelling or inducing prisoners of war to
enlist in the army of their captors lasted until the nineteenth
century. During the great war with France we had in our pay
battalions composed of subjects of every country into which Napoleon
had carried his arms. The Emperor had drafted them into his
regiments, and when they were taken prisoners they usually preferred
to earn pay by enlisting in our army to languishing at Dartmoor or in
the hulks. Not unnaturally they showed, as a rule, no great anxiety
to meet their former comrades in battle, and usually found their way
to the West Indies as garrison troops.

[37] Some French historians, while they admit Tallard’s folly in
disregarding the opinion of his colleagues, deny that he used the
expression attributed to him by Parker, and father it upon St Ruth at
Aughrim.

[38]
               (Table--First Part.)
  -------------------+------+------+---------+---------+--------+---------
                     |No. of|No. of|         | Lieut-  |        |
                     |Battalions.  |         | enant-  |        |
          Corps.     |   Squadrons.|Colonels.|Colonels.|Majors. |Captains.
  -------------------+------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
  Britains           |      |      | K. | W. | K. | W. | K.| W. | K. | W.
   Foot              |  14  |  --  |  1 |  2 |  3 | 4  | 1 |  6 | 17 | 44
   Horse and Dragoons|  --  |  18  | -- | -- |  1 | -- | 2 |  1 |  1 |  3
                     +------+------+----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
            Total    |  14  |  18  |  1 |  2 |  4 | 4  | 3 |  7 | 18 | 47
                     |      |      +----+----+----+----+---+----+----+----
  Other Allies.      |      |      |
   Holland’s         |  14  |  19  |
   Lunenberg’s       |  13  |  25  |
   Wirtemberg’s*     |   7  |  12  |
   Danes             |  --  |  22  |
   Germans**         |  18  |  92  |
    (11 batts. Prussian     |      |
      7  do.   Danes)|      |      |
                     +------+------+--------------------------------------
          Total.     |  66  | 188  |
  -------------------+------+------+--------------------------------------

               (Table--Second Part.)
  -------------------+------+------+---------+-----------+-----------+------
                     |No. of|No. of|         |           |           |
                     |Battalions.  | Subalt- |           |           |
          Corps.     |   Squadrons.|   erns. | Sentinels.|  Totals.  |Total.
  -------------------+------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
  Britains           |      |      | K. | W. |  K. |  W. |  K. |  W. |
   Foot              |  14  |  --  | 26 | 74 | 509 |1220 | 557 |1350 |  1907
   Horse and Dragoons|  --  |  18  |  8 | 10 | 101 | 200 | 113 | 214 |   327
                     +------+------+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
            Total    |  14  |  18  | 34 | 84 | 610 |1420 | 670 |1564 |  2324
                     |      |      +----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------
  Other Allies.      |      |      |  Officers and all   |     |     |
   Holland’s         |  14  |  19  |  stations included  | 772 |1424 |  2196
   Lunenberg’s       |  13  |  25  |     Do.        do.  | 824 |1580 |  2404
   Wirtemberg’s*     |   7  |  12  |     Do.        do.  | 450 | 674 |  1124
   Danes             |  --  |  22  |     Do.        do.  | 102 | 200 |   302
   Germans**         |  18  |  92  |     Do.        do.  |     |     |
    (11 batts. Prussian     |      |                     |     |     |
      7  do.   Danes)|      |      |                     |1724 |2500 |  4224
                     +------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------
          Total.     |  66  | 188  |     Do.       do.   |4542 |7942 |12,484
  -------------------+------+------+---------------------+-----+-----+------
    *  (Seven squadrons, three of Hesse)
    ** (of the Empire, K. of Prussia, Circle of Suabia, Wirtemberg,
          and other places)

[39] See Appendix 2 (B).

[40] See Appendix 9.

[41] Cust’s Annals, vol. i. p. 51.

[42] See Map No. 1.

[43] Kane, p. 69.

[44] See Appendix 2 (B).

[45] Parker, 133.

[46] See Appendix 2 (B).

[47] Other contemporary writers say that a large number of soldiers
found a miserable death in the sea of mud through which the army had
to struggle.

[48] Owing to the number of villages dotted over the battlefield of
Oudenarde it is almost impossible to give a clear description of it
in words. Reference to map No. 1 will enable the reader to follow the
letterpress without difficulty.

[49] In this cavalry affair the electoral Prince of Hanover,
afterwards George II., in charging at the head of a squadron, had a
horse shot under him. His rival, the Pretender, served at this battle
in the French army.

[50] During the night a large number of French soldiers lost their
bearings and strayed into the lines of the Allies. Eugene caught
many of them by ordering the drummers to beat the French “retraite,”
while Huguenot officers shouted out the rallying cries of various
regiments. The unlucky soldiers who answered to the call were pounced
upon, disarmed, and marched to the rear.

[51] See Appendix 2 (B).

[52] The Duke of Berwick was a natural son of James II.; he was in
the service of France, and greatly distinguished himself at the
battle of Almanza in Spain by defeating an army of the Allies, in
which were a considerable number of British troops. Almanza has
curious points of likeness to Fontenoy, for in both battles the
British won a great local success, but being unsupported by their
Allies were defeated at the end of the day.

[53] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 504.

[54] Millner remarks drily that after the French had flooded the
country they thought “they had our Army in a Pound, but searching
into the depths thereof they at last found themselves most snared
therein.”

[55] Fortescue, vol. i. p. 506.

[56] See Appendix 2 (B).

[57] Stearne.

[58] See Appendix 2 (B).

[59] See Map No. 1.

[60] Students of the literature of the Peninsular War will remember
frequent mention of the good terms existing between the British and
French soldiers when they met on outpost. Things seem to have been
much the same in the time of Marlborough, for Millner says that on
the night before Malplaquet “several of both sides had frequent and
friendly Commerce and Conferences with one another, as if we had
been in an alliance together; but at last each man being called to
his respective post, our Commerce was turn’d to, and swallowed up in
blood, as in the Salutations of the day after appeared.”

[61] The Malplaquet roll (Dalton, vol. 6) gives the names of the
officers who were at the battle of Malplaquet. The asterisks show
those who fought at Blenheim, not necessarily in the XVIIIth regiment.

  Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel--R. Kane.*

  Brevet Majors--M. Leathes* and F. de La Penotière.*

  Captains--P. D’Offranville,* N. Hussey,* R. Parker,* W. Weddall,*
  H. Wingfield, W. Leathes,* Ant. Pujolas,* Jas. Lilly.*

  Captain-Lieutenant--R. Tripp.*

  Lieutenants--S. Gilman, R. Ingoldsby, Jno. Blakeney,* B.
  Devenish, John Cherry,* T. Carter, Simon Montford, E. Moyle, R.
  Reed, Ch. Parker, Jas. Pinsent,* R. Selicke.

  Ensigns--Jos. Young, Jas. Smith, Jas. Scott, R. Hawkins, T.
  Broderick, T. Jennings, A. Forster, G. Halfhide, J. Eyre, J.
  Hamilton, W. Hopkey, G. Mann.

  Adjutant--R. Parker.

  Quartermaster--Jacob Berger.

  Chaplain--Rev. H. Reynolds.*

  Surgeon--Thos. Young.

[62] Mr Callaghan, the historian of the Irish regiments in the
service of France, throws grave doubts on the accuracy of Parker’s
story, which however is corroborated by other officers of the XVIIIth.

[63] See Appendix 2 (B).

[64] Parker, who is corroborated by Stearne, tells a very curious
story about the grain rations at Aire. After saying that the enemy
had carried away all the wheat before the beginning of the siege, he
continues, “but we met with a considerable supply, which I fear will
scarce be believed by any but those that saw it. But fact it is, that
the soldiers found concealments under ground, which the mice had laid
up for their winter store, and that in such abundance, that it was
a great relief to us toward the end of the Siege. These hoards were
from four to six feet under ground, and in many of them our men found
some pecks of corn.”

[65] See Appendix 2 (B).

[66] See Appendix 2 (B).

[67] See Appendix 9.

[68] It is not known whether any of the XVIIIth were included, but it
is probable that Kane brought some of his old regiment with him to
the post of danger.

[69] Sayer’s ‘History of Gibraltar,’ p. 295.

[70] Sayer, p. 197. It would be interesting to know if the staff
officer who evolved the idea of thus “employing the unfortunate
Israelites” was heavily in debt to them!

[71] Sayer, p. 204. This writer mentions that out of the sixty guns
in position at the beginning of the bombardment twenty-three were
dismounted in seven days.

[72] In 1732 Cosby was succeeded by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., who
on his appointment three years later to a regiment of Guards was
replaced by Major-General John Armstrong. See Appendix 9.

[73] See Map No. 2.

[74] The only mention of British losses at Ostend in the despatches
is a casual reference by Cumberland in a letter, where he speaks of
the seventy English soldiers taken by the French in the attack on the
covered way.

[75] Continuation of Stearne.

[76] The origin of grenadier companies is mentioned in Chapter I.
Light infantry companies were officially recognised soon after the
end of the Seven Years’ War (1763); they were composed of small,
active men, trained to act as skirmishers and in the outpost line. It
was the custom to collect the flank companies of different regiments
and turn them into provisional battalions: for instance, in the
attack on the Terra Nova at Namur the grenadier companies of thirteen
battalions were detached from their own corps and brigaded together;
and, nearly a hundred years later, both the grenadier and the light
infantry companies of the garrison of Boston were used in the same
way at Lexington and Bunker’s Hill. After the Crimean War flank
companies were abolished.

[77] See Appendix 2 (C).

[78] The engagement ought strictly to be called that of Breed’s Hill,
but it has always been known as Bunker’s Hill, and will be, as long
as the American War of Independence is remembered.

[79] The reinforcements sent to Prescott raised the number of
provincials on the peninsula to about 4000, but in Washington’s
opinion not more than 1500 were engaged at any one time during the
day.--Trevelyan’s ‘American Revolution,’ vol. i. p. 363.

[80] Trevelyan, vol. i. pp. 359, 360.

[81] Some historians consider that this number should be increased to
eleven hundred and fifty.--Fortescue, vol. iii. p. 159.

[82] See Appendix 2 (C).

[83] The following officers are shown by the muster roll as present
at Boston on June 25, 1775:--

  Major--I. Hamilton (in command).

  Captains--J. Mawby, J. Shee, B. Chapman, J. B. Payne, B. Johnson,
  R. Hamilton, C. Edmonstone.

  Lieutenants--G. Bowes, H. Fermor, John Mawby (adjutant), W.
  Richardson, W. Blackwood, E. Crossby.

  Ensigns--J. Delancey, E. Prideaux, G. Bentricke, T. Serle, F. J.
  Kelly, C. Hoare, W. Slator.

  Quartermaster-- ---- Batwicke.

[84] Bunbury, ‘Narrative of Campaign in North Holland,’ pp. 3, 4.

[85] See Map No. 3.

[86] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth Regiment for the six months
ending 25th December, 1793, gives the following list of officers:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--D. D. Wemyss, in command.

  Major--J. Mawby (on leave).

  Captains--W. Conolly, H. T. Montresor (recruiting), T. S.
  Sebright (on leave), G. H. Vansittart (on leave), T. Probyn, D.
  McDonald (on leave), J. Richardson, W. Gammell.

  Captain-Lieutenant and Adjutant--R. Powell.

  Lieutenants--J. Hope, T. G. Montresor (on leave), W. Morgan, C.
  Dunlop, Sebright Mawby, H. Wolseley (on leave), W. Byron, T.
  Mandiville (duty), M. Gamble, T. Holme (on leave), C. Grove, J.
  Woodcock.

  Ensigns--W. Johnston, T. Stuart, W. Iremonger, A. Steuart, W. R.
  Rainsford (not joined), R. T. Bingham (duty), J. Woodcock, F.
  Pennyman, G. Minchin.

  Quartermaster--W. Musgrove (at Gibraltar for recovery of health).

  Surgeon--C. Kennelly.

  Mate--T. Jackson.

[87] Dundas, ‘Summary Account of Proceedings of Army and Navy at
Toulon.’

[88] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. pp. 205, 206.

[89] See Appendix 2 (D).

[90] See Map No. 3.

[91] Maurice’s ‘Diary of Sir John Moore,’ vol. i. p. 82.

[92] The despatch and Moore’s diary differ slightly about this date,
but they are in substantial agreement about the facts.

[93] The “Royal Grenadiers” may be an abbreviation of the grenadier
company of the “Royal Regiment of Ireland,” as the XVIIIth was still
frequently termed, or of “the Royals.” In the 2nd Battalion of the
Royals there were at this time two officers called MacDonald, and
in the Royal Irish a captain named Donald McDonald. If Moore was
accurate in his spelling of the name, an officer of the XVIIIth
shared with the future hero of Corunna the honour of being first into
the Mozello. In this assault Lieutenant S. Mawby of the regiment is
known to have taken part.

[94] The casualties may have been greater, for the losses in the
grenadier and light companies cannot be traced. Lieutenant-Colonel
Wemyss’s wound is not mentioned in the casualty returns.

[95] See Appendix 2 (E).

[96] See Map No. 3.

[97] Minto’s ‘Life of Elliot,’ vol. ii. p. 362.

[98] The “proof table” in the muster-roll for Christmas, 1796, shows
that the regiment had only three hundred and eighty-seven officers
and men “present,” while seventy-eight of all ranks were “absent”:
with the corps, either in the mainland of Italy or in Elba, there
were only fourteen officers, while twenty-five were on leave or
employed elsewhere.

[99] The muster-roll of the XVIIIth for Christmas, 1796, was signed
at Elba on April 9, 1797. Among the deaths appears the name of
Lieutenant George Mallet, who died during our occupation of the
island. When the writer of this history visited Elba many years ago,
he noticed on the wall of the garden where Napoleon used to walk
during his exile in 1814-15, tablets to the memory of two or three
British officers. One of these bore the following inscription:--

“Near this place lyeth the remains of Lieutenant George Mallett of
the 18th or Royal Regiment of Ireland who departed this life the 13th
of January 1797 in the 18th year of his age.”

Thanks to the good offices of Mr M. Carmichael, H.M. Consul
at Leghorn, and to the kindness of Lieutenant-General Count
Simminiatelli, commanding the troops in Tuscany, this tablet has been
presented to the regiment, and is now at the depôt at Clonmel.

[100] Pulteney had been known earlier in his career as Murray; he
changed his name late in life. See Appendix 9.

[101] This sudden rush of troops to Gibraltar produced great scarcity
of food. Eggs were sold at a shilling each, while “moderate-sized
turkeys” found eager customers at £3, 10s.

[102] The conquest of Egypt was no new idea to French statesmen. In
the middle of the seventeenth century, while Louis XIV. was revolving
in his mind schemes for the aggrandisement of France, he was urged
strongly, though unsuccessfully, not to seek expansion in Europe, but
to make himself master of Egypt, and by establishing her pre-eminence
in the Mediterranean secure for his country the trade of the Levant
and of the East. See Mahan’s ‘Influence of Sea Power on History,’ pp.
107, 141, 142.

[103] Taken in 1795 from the Dutch, then allies of France.

[104] See Map No. 3.

[105] The expedition of 1799. Dunfermline’s ‘Life of Abercromby.’

[106] See Map No. 3.

[107] The historians of this campaign do not agree about the exact
strength of Abercromby’s army. The figures in the text are summarised
from those given in the Life of Abercromby, written by his grandson,
James, Lord Dunfermline.

[108] Two field officers, 5 captains, 16 subalterns, 5 staff, 32
sergeants, 14 drummers, 449 rank and file.

[109] The following officers appear to have landed in Egypt with the
regiment:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--H. T. Montresor (in command).

  Major--T. Probyn.

  Captains--W. Morgue, C. J. Dunlop, H. Snooke.

  Captain and Lieutenant--G. Jones.

  Lieutenants--J. Jenkinson, P. Hay, J. Hoy, W. Conolly, J.
  Kennedy, R. Yeale, G. Gorrequer, W. Gunn.

  Ensigns--F. Hill, H. Bruley, H. W. Beavan, T. Baylis, ----
  Hutton, W. Brand, A. Deane, J. Smith.

  Paymaster--R. Irwin.

  Adjutant--T. Gregory.

  Quartermaster--M. M‘Dermott.

  Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

  Assistant-Surgeon--W. Maxton.

  Major S. Mawby rejoined from sick leave during the campaign.

[110] The 8th, 13th, XVIIIth Royal Irish, and 90th regiments.

[111] See Appendix 2 (F).

[112] If the statements of two of the officers who left accounts of
the campaign are correct, this figure must be too low; Walsh in his
Journal says that 1160 dead Frenchmen were counted on the ground on
the afternoon of the 21st, while another writer states that 1040 of
the enemy were buried after the battle.

[113] See Appendix 9.

[114] British--cavalry, 510; infantry, 4800 (among whom were the
Royal Irish). Turks--cavalry, 600; infantry, 3600; with the combined
force were twenty field-guns.

[115] See Appendix 2 (F).

[116] The following officers arrived with the regiment:--

  Majors--R. Campbell (in command) and C. Dunlop.

  Captains--W. Loscombe, H. Snook, G. Reeves, J. Graham, E. Walker,
  J. E. Inston D. O’Farrall, R. Smyth, T. Murray, C. O’Gorman.*

  Lieutenants--R. Huson, F. Hill, J. Janns, J. Stotesbury, G.
  Andrews, A. Baker, R. Wild, P. Scott, R. N. King, R. Hutton, W.
  Coulson, A. Deane, T. Barflis.

  Ensigns--J. Whitley, J. Strang.

  Adjutant--T. Gregory.

  Quartermaster--J. Atkins.

  Surgeon--G. B. Waters.

  Assistant-Surgeons--F. Micklen and W. Carver.

  * This officer began life as page to the ill-fated Queen Marie
    Antoinette.

[117] Sometimes called Haiti.

[118] The officers who went out with the second battalion to Curaçoa
were:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--J. W. Graves (in command).

  Captains--J. Hoy, P. Bainbrigge, G. H. Gordon, E. H. Smith, R.
  Percival, J. O’Connell.

  Lieutenants--J. Aitken, J. S. Owen, J. Cowper, C. Maxwell, R.
  Delachnois, W. MacDonald, R. Hopley, C. Carleton, F. Munro, J.
  Aicken.

  Ensigns--L. Hiatt, H. Kennedy, J. E. P. Langharne, E. Stackpoole,
  T. W. Lowes.

  Adjutant--J. Forrest.

  Quartermaster--D. Cullen.

  Paymaster--H. Salvin.

  Surgeon--B. Cory.

  Assistant-Surgeons--W. Seaman and W. Crofton.

[119] These figures, obtained from returns filed in the Record
Office, are considerably lower than those given in Cannon’s History
of the regiment. The names of the officers who died in the West
Indies will be found in Appendix 3.

[120] These islands, acquired by Britain during the Napoleonic war,
were ceded by her to Greece in 1864.

[121] Nine companies, consisting of 2 field officers, 7 captains, 16
subalterns, 3 staff, 35 sergeants, 11 drummers, 593 privates--667 all
told. The following officers served with the XVIIIth during the whole
or part of the China war:--

  Field Officers--Colonel G. Burrell; Lieutenant-Colonels H. W.
  Adams and J. Cowper; Majors R. Hammill, N. R. Tomlinson, W. F.
  Dillon, J. Grattan, J. J. Sargent, F. Wigston.

  Captains--C. J. R. Collinson, W. A. T. Payne, C. A. Edwards, J.
  P. Mitford, J. C. Kennedy.

  Lieutenants--Sir W. Macgregor, Bart., Sir H. Darell, Bart., A.
  Wilson (adjutant), Hon. C. H. Stratford, G. W. Davis, S. Haly, J.
  W. Graves, W. A. Gwynne, J. J. Wood, G. Hilliard, A. Murray, F.
  Swinburne, T. Martin, H. F. Vavasour, D. Edwardes, S. Bernard, J.
  Cockrane, A. W. S. F. Armstrong, J. H. Hewitt, W. P. Cockburn, H.
  D. Burrell, C. Woodwright, J. P. Mayo, C. Rogers, W. Venour, E.
  Jodrell, G. F. S. Call, C. Dunbar.

  Ensigns--P. Simmons, E. W. Sargent, J. Elliot, M. J. Hayman, L.
  M. T. Humphreys.

  Paymaster--G. J. Call.

  Quartermaster--J. Carroll.

  Surgeon--D. McKinlay, M.D.

  Assistant-Surgeons--C. Cowen, J. Baker, J. Stewart.

Only three of these officers had been on active service. Burrell had
served at the capture of Guadaloupe in 1810 and in the war on the
Canadian frontier in 1814; Grattan had taken part in the suppression
of the rebellion in Canada in 1832; Dillon had been on the staff at
the capture of San Domingo in 1809.

[122] See Map No. 4.

[123] ‘The War in China,’ by D. McPherson, M.D., pp. 21, 22.

[124] See Appendix 2 (G).

[125] Half the troops originally landed at Chusan are said to have
died there.

[126] The Chinese always described their enemies from the western
hemisphere as Barbarians or Foreign Devils.

[127]

COMPOSITION OF THE COLUMNS.

                                                             Other
                                 _Right Column._    Officers.ranks.Total.
  Major Pratt, 26th        { 26th Cameronians             15   294   309
    Cameronians            { Madras Artillery              1    20    21
                           { Madras Sappers and Miners     1    30    31
          with one 6-pr., one 5-in. mortar.

                                 _Left Column._
  4th (Left) Brigade,      { 49th Regiment                28   273   301
    Lieut.-Colonel Morris, { 37th Madras Native Infantry  15   215   230
    49th Regiment          { 1 company Bengal Volunteers   4   112   116

  3rd (Artillery) Brigade, { Royal Artillery               2    33    35
    Capt. Knowles, R.A.    { Madras Artillery             10   231   241
                           { Madras Sappers and Miners     4   137   141
          with four 12-pr. howitzers, four 9-pr. and two
          6-pr. field-guns, three 5-in. mortars, and 152
          32-pr. rockets.

  2nd (Naval) Brigade,      }
    Capt Bourchier, R.N.    }                             27   403   430

  1st (Right) Brigade,      { XVIIIth Royal Irish         25   495   520
    Major-General Burrell   { Royal Marines                9   372   381
                                                         ---  ----  ----
                                                         141  2615  2756

[128] This distinction won for Grattan a brevet-majority, and
incidentally caused him to become the hero of a curious adventure.
The ship in which he was returning from Calcutta took fire in the
Straits of Formosa. The boat to which Grattan had been told off
was fortunate enough to reach the shore, where her crew, passing
themselves off as Americans, were claimed by the United States Consul
at Macao, and by him sent on to Hong Kong.

[129] See Appendix 2 (G).

[130] This draft of 2 sergeants and 305 privates joined on June 8,
1841; the next, 152 rank and file, arrived about Christmas of the
same year; the third, in June, 1842, was only 43 strong. The officers
who died were Lieutenants G. W. Davis, S. Haly, and Lieutenant and
Adjutant A. Wilson. The latter was succeeded in his appointment by
Lieutenant J. W. Graves.

[131] ‘Life of Hugh, first Viscount Gough,’ by Rait, vol. i. pp. 209,
210.

[132] H.M. Paddleship _Nemesis_.

[133] ‘Doings in China,’ by Lieutenant A. Murray.

[134] The Chinese, like ourselves, have many orders, indicated by
the colour of a button, which is worn as we wear the insignia of the
C.B., C.M.G., &c.

[135] See Appendix 2 (G).

[136] This account of Cushin’s exploits is taken from papers left by
General Edwards and Lieutenant-Colonel Graves.

[137] Murray’s ‘Doings in China.’

[138] As Gough’s reinforcements had not yet joined, he only had
with him four British regiments and a small number of gunners and
engineers. The XVIIIth were 492 of all ranks.

[139] See Appendix 2 (G).

[140] In the MS. accounts of this engagement, the writers all mention
that the regiment marched off “left in front.” The XVIIIth must have
been very well drilled to be able to do this, for in those days
very few regiments could move otherwise than “right in front.” This
innovation is interesting in connection with the formation of the
Royal Irish in the attack on the Dockyard Creek at Sebastopol on June
18, 1855, described in chapter vii.

[141] How susceptible the Chinese soldiery are to the training of
British officers was proved first by the success of Gordon’s army in
1860 (see chapter xii.), and later, in 1900, by the good conduct of
the Wai-Hai-Wai regiment.

[142] Murray tells us that these white trousers were dug up out of
store in honour of this ceremonial parade. Throughout the war the
XVIIIth wore blue Nankeen trousers.

[143] See Appendix 2 (G). These figures, compiled from documents in
the Record Office, are considerably greater than those given in the
inscription on the memorial. Probably some of the deaths occurred
immediately after peace was made, and were therefore not included
among the losses during the war.

[144] Six officers, 6 sergeants, 6 drummers, and 118 rank and file.

[145] February 21, 1849.

[146] Some of the officers embarked in the _Buckinghamshire_, an
ill-fated ship which was burned at sea on March 3, 1851. They escaped
with their lives, but the regimental plate, and the trophies won in
many campaigns by the regiment, were lost, with the exception of one
piece of plate, a gold snuff-box, saved, according to tradition, by
an officer who, when the fire alarm sounded, snatched it off the mess
table, thrust it into his trousers’ pocket, and brought it safe to
land.

[147] The Royal Navy was represented by 6 steamers, 80 guns, 818
officers and men; the Indian Navy by the same number of steamers, 30
guns, 952 officers and men; there were also 7 steamers belonging to
the uncovenanted Service, carrying 33 guns, with crews amounting in
all to 500. The original land force consisted of 8000 or 9000 troops;
later arrivals raised General Godwin’s command to a nominal strength
of nearly 20,000.

[148] The following officers served in the war:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel  T. S. Reignolds, C.B. (in command).
      ”               C. J. Coote.
  Brevet-Lieut.-Col.  J. Grattan, C.B.
  Major               F. Wigston.
  Captain             C. A. Edwards.
      ”               A. Gillespie.
      ”               G. F. S. Call.
      ”               A. N. Campbell.
      ”               W. T. Bruce.
      ”               J. J. Wood.
      ”               J. Borrow.
      ”               J. Cormick.
      ”               A. W. S. F. Armstrong.
  Lieutenant          I. H. Hewitt.
      ”               W. P. Cockburn.
      ”               C. Woodwright.
      ”               R. Doran (adjt.).
      ”               E. W. Sargent (adjt.).
      ”               M. J. Hayman.
      ”               F. D. Lillie.
      ”               W. H. Graves.
      ”               G. Swaby.
      ”               C. F. Kelly.
      ”               J. Swinburn.
      ”               F. H. Suckling.
      ”               H. F. Stephenson.
      ”               G. A. Elliot.
      ”               J. Canavan.
      ”               G. L. W. D. Flamstead.
      ”               H. Piercy.
      ”               H. A. Ward.
      ”               J. G. Wilkinson.
      ”               F. Willington.
      ”               F. Eteson.
  Ensign              T. R. Gibbons.
      ”               T. H. Smith.
      ”               A. H. Graves.
      ”               G. W. Stacpoole.
      ”               W. J. Hales.
      ”               T. E. Esmonde.
      ”               G. H. Pocklington.
      ”               W. O’B. Taylor.
      ”               J. W. Meurant.
  Acting Paymaster    Captain A. N. Campbell.
  Quartermaster       Lieutenant T. Carney.
  Surgeon             J. Stewart.
  Assist.-Surgeon     J. H. Dwyer.
      ”               W. K. Chalmers, M.D.

[149] See Map No. 5.

[150] See Appendix 2 (H). Private Fergusson’s name, however, is not
among those who died of wounds.

[151] He was succeeded in the Adjutancy by Lieutenant E. W. Sargent.

[152] See Appendix 2 (H).

[153] General Edwards’ statement.

[154] Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley’s ‘Story of a Soldier’s Life,’
vol. i. pp. 33-35. See a letter from General C. G. Gordon on the same
subject, p. 185.

[155] According to Colonel Elliot’s diary the actual number of Royal
Irish who embarked at Prome was nine officers and one hundred and
sixty-seven non-commissioned officers and men.

[156] Sir John Cheape’s despatch.

[157] Appendix 2 (H).

[158] See Appendix 2 (H).

[159] See Map No. 6.

[160] See chapter v. p. 120.

[161] The officers were--

  Colonel--T. S. Reignolds, C.B. (in command).

  Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel--C. A. Edwards.

  Majors--J. C. Kennedy and G. F. S. Call.

  Captains--J. Cormick, M. J. Hayman, A. W. S. F. Armstrong, J.
  Laurie, R. Inglis, H. F. Stephenson, C. F. Kelly, and J. Swinburn.

  Lieutenants--J. G. Wilkinson (adjutant), T. E. Esmonde, G. W.
  Stacpoole, W. O’B. Taylor, R. H. Jex-Blake, J. R. Blacker, E. H.
  Wilton, W. J. Hales, and A. T. Frederick.

  Ensigns--J. T. Ring, J. R. Wolseley, C. J. Coote, T. D. Baker, W.
  Kemp, F. Fearnley, A. L. Dillon, and C. Hotham.

  Quartermaster--M. T. Carney.

  Surgeon--W. K. Chalmers, M.D.

  Assistant-Surgeons--T. Crawford, ---- Ryatt, ---- Phillip.

Between January and September 1855 the following joined the regiment
in the trenches before Sebastopol:--

  Captains--H. A. Ward and G. A. Elliot.

  Lieutenants--G. H. Pocklington, J. W. Meurant, J. S. Theobald, R.
  J. Adamson, A. Cottee, and M. T. Cunningham.

  Ensigns--C. N. Fry and H. Shaw.

Joined after September 1855--

  Major--A. N. Campbell.

  Captains--E. W. Sargent, J. Borrow, and A. H. Graves.

  Lieutenants--J. F. Bryant, R. W. E. Dawson, T. M‘G. M‘Gill, C. G.
  D. Annesley, E. Wilford, S. Darvell, E. D. Ricard, W. B. Burke,
  R. Bell, and H. Hutchins.

[162] The allied forces at this time consisted of the English,
French, and Turkish troops; the Sardinian contingent of 18,000 men
under General La Marmora did not reach the Crimea till May, 1855.

[163] In February, to 290 all ranks.

[164] Note by the author--This was no improvement on the Peninsula,
where the patients suffering from typhus and dysentery were fed in
the same way.

[165] ‘The Crimea in 1854 and 1894,’ by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn
Wood, pp. 204 _et seq._

[166] Between November, 1854, and February, 1855, there were 9000
deaths in hospital: at the end of February there were no less than
13,600 officers and men in hospital: and though during that month
large drafts raised our strength on paper to 44,000, only 18,000 were
“present and fit for duty.”

[167] Captain W. Kemp, probably the last surviving officer of the
XVIIIth who served in the Crimea, has supplied the author with much
valuable information. When a subaltern of six months’ standing,
Captain Kemp was appointed acting adjutant of the regiment.

[168] An extract from Hamley’s ‘War in the Crimea,’ p. 208, will show
the inability of the Treasury to realise the needs of the army in the
Crimea. The Land Transport Corps was formed by an able and energetic
officer, Colonel McMurdo, “who had so well used his opportunities
that horses, trained drivers, escorts and vehicles were being rapidly
assembled and organised. All this demanded a great outlay, insomuch
that on one of the Colonel’s many requisitions, the Secretary to the
Treasury, Sir George Trevelyan, had written, ‘Colonel McMurdo must
limit his expenditure.’ When the paper returned to the Colonel with
these words, he wrote below them: ‘When Sir George Trevelyan limits
the war, I will limit my expenditure!’”

[169] The influence of Napoleon III.’s personal ambition on the
conduct of the siege and the effect of the rivalries of his Generals
are well described in Hamley’s ‘Crimea,’ wherein the student may
learn how difficult, if not impossible, it is for the chiefs of two
allied powers, engaged in the same operation of war, to see eye to
eye, even on the most important occasions.

[170] A small rounded hillock, not to be confused with “the Mamelon,”
the outwork to the Malakoff.

[171] Russell’s ‘The War,’ vol. i. pp. 490 _et seq._

[172] According to a tradition in the regiment, the men found the
breakfast-tables laid for the Russians whom they had so rudely
dispossessed, and promptly availed themselves of the hospitality of
their enemies!

[173] The Victoria Cross was instituted in 1856. Before that time the
only way in which a non-commissioned officer or private soldier was
rewarded for conduct meriting higher recognition than a medal for
meritorious conduct in the field was by a dole of money. For officers
there was no decoration to commemorate a deed of remarkable courage.

[174] Eyre’s capture of the cemetery and suburb was officially
included in the attack on the Redan.

[175] See Appendix 2 (I).

[176] Early in 1855 the Government realised that tents were
unsuitable quarters for the besieging army: and wooden huts were sent
off to the Crimea, not of one, but of several sizes and patterns.
This want of uniformity in design caused great confusion, and the
XVIIIth had not received its full complement of huts at the time of
the attack on the Redan.

[177] Since the Russian War no subjects of a foreign power have
been enlisted in a body to serve under the British flag. At the end
of the Crimean War a considerable number of the German legion were
sent at their own request to South Africa as settlers, where they
became useful members of the white population. During the last war
with the Boers, the author met in a Free State town an old German
cobbler, who, after proudly dilating on his services in the Legion,
explained that though he was too old again to shoulder a rifle with
the British, he would be proud to mend their boots!

[178] These numbers, which are taken from official documents in the
Record Office, do not agree completely with those on the Crimean
“Memorial” in St Patrick’s.

[179] One of the drafts had a narrow escape from shipwreck in the Sea
of Marmora. Their transport, the s.s. _Cleopatra_, in the middle of
the night of August 15th was in collision with another steamer, the
_Simla_, which was so badly injured that her captain ran her ashore
to prevent her from sinking in deep water; the _Cleopatra_ was cut
down to the water’s edge, but managed to reach the Golden Horn, where
the troops were at once transhipped and sent on to Balaclava.

[180] See Appendix 4.

[181] From the muster roll of June 25, 1858, it appears that the
officers in India at that date were--

  Colonel--C. A. Edwards (in command).

  Lieutenant-Colonel--G. F. S. Call.

  Majors--J. Borrow, A. N. Campbell, E. W. Sargent.

  Captains--C. G. D. Annesley, J. Canavan, G. A. Elliot, W. F.
  G. Forster, W. H. Graves, H. M. Havelock, C. F. Kelly, G. H.
  Pocklington, J. Swinburn, W. O’B. Taylor, R. H. J. Black, R. P.
  Bishopp.

  Lieutenants--R. J. Adamson, T. D. Baker, J. R. Blacker, J. F.
  Bryant, W. B. Burke, S. Darvell, C. Hotham, W. Kemp (adjutant),
  J. T. Ring, H. Shaw, J. S. Theobald, F. Fearnley, E. L. Dillon,
  E. A. Noblett, H. Adams, R. H. Daniel, E. Hall, I. Wiley.

  Ensigns--J. F. Daubeny, W. T. Le Brunn, T. Watt.

  Surgeon--T. Crawford, M. D.

  Assistant-Surgeons--F. Ffolliott, R. A. Hyde, C. E. Porteous, M.D.

  Quartermaster--T. Carney.

  Paymaster--C. E. Preston.

[182] See Appendix 2 (J).

[183] See p. 119.

[184] Drummer Joseph Timmins sounded the first “Fall-in” for the
second battalion. After long service with the Colours, he was
appointed to the permanent staff of the third battalion at Wexford.
He was discharged about 1890, and died a few years later.

[185] Letter of thanks to the regiment from P. B. Le Bin,
Lieutenant-Judge of Alderney, 1st November, 1862.

[186] The following officers left England with the battalion, or
joined during the New Zealand war:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--A. A. Chapman, in command.

  Major and Brevet-Colonel--G. J. Carey.

  Major--J. H. Rocke.

  Captains--Sir H. M. Havelock, V.C. (who later assumed the name of
  Havelock-Allan), J. Inman, W. D. Chapman, R. P. Bishopp, E. A.
  Anderson, J. T. Ring, T. D. Baker, W. Kemp, F. Fearnley, E. L.
  Dillon, E. A. Noblett, H. Shaw, J. F. Daubeny.

  Lieutenants--R. W. E. Dawson (adjutant), T. C. Wray, E. Hall, J.
  A. J. Briggs, S. T. Corrie, W. F. Thacker, E. A. Marsland, G.
  A. Nicolls, C. G. Minnitt, W. T. Croft, J. J. R. Russell, F. P.
  Leonard, O. R. Lawson.

  Ensigns--J. B. Jackson, C. Dawson, A. J. A. Jackson, J. G. Butts,
  B. G. Haines, C. G. Phillips, F. J. S. Pringle, H. D. Bicknell,
  W. E. Chapman, H. Jones, D. R. Macqueen, G. B. Jenkins, J. C.
  Fife, A. R. H. Swindley, E. C. Milner.

  Adjutant--Lieutenant R. W. E. Dawson.

  Quartermaster--J. Stainforth.

  Surgeon--G. W. Peake, M.D.

  Assistant-Surgeon--W. I. Spencer.

  Paymaster--C. F. Heatly.

[187] See Map No. 7.

[188] ‘The War in New Zealand,’ by W. Fox, late Colonial Secretary
and native Minister of the Colony, pp. 30-32.

[189] 1st battalion, 12th, and 2nd battalions, 14th and XVIIIth
regiments, and the 40th, 57th, 65th, and 70th regiments, which were
still one-battalion corps. There were detachments of Royal Artillery
and Royal Engineers, a Military Train, a Naval brigade, and various
Colonial corps, including a contingent of friendly natives. The 43rd,
50th, and 68th regiments, and a considerable number of volunteers
enlisted in Australia, reached New Zealand later in the war.

[190] Pember Reeves, ‘The Long White Cloud,’ pp. 48, 49.

[191] Brevet-Colonel Carey, Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, afterwards
Havelock-Allan, V. C., D.A.Q.M.G., and Captain T. D. Baker, A.M.S.,
were so constantly mentioned in despatches throughout the war that
it is unnecessary to record the fact after each affair in which they
were engaged.

[192] The regimental records of the New Zealand War are far from
complete, for the battalion was constantly broken up into small
detachments, buried in stockades in the depths of the bush. Between
these detachments and headquarters communication was most difficult,
and for weeks, and even months, the various portions of the regiment
knew nothing of each other’s proceedings.

[193] ‘Bush Fighting: The Maori War,’ by Major-General Sir J. E.
Alexander, p. 59.

[194] See Appendix 2 (K).

[195] Native house or hut.

[196] See Appendix 2 (K).

[197] See Appendix 2 (K). It was not until the bush had been cleared
for two hundred yards on each side of the track that waggons could
move through the forest of Hunua with safety.

[198] G. W. Rusden, ‘History of New Zealand,’ vol. ii. p. 45. In
another passage (p. 173) this author considers that the destruction
of this war party signally foiled the Maoris’ scheme of attack on
Cameron’s left and rear.

[199] Captain Kemp and Captain Briggs have supplied the author with
valuable information--the former by sending extracts from his diary,
the latter by recording his reminiscences of the campaign.

[200] The strength on December 1, 1863, of the ten companies of the
second battalion of the XVIIIth was 2 field officers, 9 captains, 20
subalterns, 5 staff, 47 sergeants, 22 drummers, 763 rank and file fit
for duty, and 24 sick, or a total of 892 of all ranks.

[201] Alexander, p. 129.

[202] This column was composed of 728 of all ranks; among them was
a detachment of the Royal Irish--1 captain, 3 subalterns, 1 staff,
5 sergeants, 3 drummers, and 140 rank and file. The smaller columns
were 250 and 100 strong.

[203] Carey’s despatch.

[204] Rusden, vol. ii. p. 205.

[205] Some of the historians of the New Zealand War assert that these
assaults were ordered by General Carey: others hold that they were
unauthorised: the balance of evidence is in favour of the latter
opinion.

[206] Rusden, vol. ii. pp. 207, 208.

[207] Two anecdotes will show how stern was the courage of the Maori
warriors. General Alexander describes how an officer was standing at
the head of the sap, watching his opportunity to enter the _pah_.
The head of a fierce-looking Maori appeared above the parapet, but
the Englishman was a quick shot and the head disappeared. When the
troops got into the works the officer looked for the man he had hit.
The Maori had dropped with a bullet through his brain, but this
death-wound was not his only injury. Some time during the siege his
leg had been broken and roughly bound up with flax and a tent-peg, to
enable him to go on fighting. In the retreat a native for some time
escorted a party of women and children. “As his pursuers approached,”
says Mr Rusden, “he turned and knelt down to take deliberate aim.
Time after time, without firing a shot, he thus arrested the pursuit
while the women fled. At last he himself was shot, and it was found
that his gun was not loaded.”

[208] See Appendix 2 (K).

[209] General Alexander tells an interesting anecdote about the
fighting in the Taranaki district in 1864. In a skirmish the son of
a chief was made a prisoner, badly wounded in the leg. To save his
life the surgeons amputated the limb, and when the young man was fit
to be moved a message was sent to his father that he might take the
lad back to his village. The chief was very grateful for the kindness
his son had received at our hands; he presented the General with a
cartload of potatoes, and assured him that in future he would not
kill any wounded soldiers who fell into his hands, but would only cut
off one of their legs and send the men back to camp!

[210] Fox, pp. 126, 139, 140.

[211] Hence the name “Hau-Haus,” by which these fanatics were
generally known.

[212] The official description of the act of bravery for which
Captain Shaw was awarded the Victoria Cross is as follows: “For his
gallant conduct at the skirmish near Nukumaru in New Zealand, in
proceeding under a heavy fire with four privates of the regiment
who volunteered to accompany him to within thirty yards of the bush
occupied by the rebels, in order to carry off a comrade who was badly
wounded. On the afternoon of that day Captain Shaw was ordered to
occupy a position about half a mile from the camp. He advanced in
skirmishing order, and, when about thirty yards from the bush, he
deemed it prudent to retire to a palisade about sixty yards from
the bush, as two of his party had been wounded. Finding that one of
them was unable to move, he called for volunteers to advance to the
front to carry the man to the rear, and the four privates referred to
accompanied him, under a heavy fire, to the place where the wounded
man was lying, and they succeeded in bringing him to the rear.”

[213] See Appendix 2 (K).

[214] The only event recorded of the stay of the XVIIIth at Patea
is the death of two young officers, Lieutenants Lawson and Jenkins,
who, unable to swim, were carried by the tide out of their depth and
drowned.

[215] The unavowed but well-understood object of this reduction in
the regular forces in New Zealand was to throw upon the colonists the
chief burden and expense of the war, of which the Home Government was
thoroughly weary.

[216] Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman was invalided home in June. As
Brevet-Colonel G. J. Carey was an acting Brigadier-General, Rocke, as
the next senior officer, assumed the command of the battalion.

[217] Not to be confounded with the camp near Auckland.

[218] It was not till 1870 that the last embers of the rebellion were
completely stamped out by the local forces of New Zealand.

[219] See Appendix 4.

[220] See Appendix 2 (K). The rivers in New Zealand took heavy toll
from the Royal Irish, eight of whom were drowned in fording streams.

[221] Three Field-Officers, 8 Captains, 12 Lieutenants, 5 Ensigns,
1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant-Surgeon, 1 Paymaster, 1 Quartermaster, 49
Sergeants, 21 drummers, 759 rank and file.

[222] Governor Sir G. Bowen to Colonial Office, 9th March 1869.

[223] Now “colonies” no longer, but “States” of the Australian
Commonwealth.

[224] Among the other officers mentioned was Lieutenant H. S. F.
Bolton, who enlisted in the army in 1859: obtained his commission in
the West India regiment; was a special service officer in Ashantee,
and finished his career as a major in the Royal Irish regiment. He is
now one of the military Knights of Windsor.

[225] As Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. S. Call had already started on
his homeward voyage, Major E. W. Sargent was in command; the other
officers with him were Captains C. J. Coote, J. F. Bryant, and R.
I. Adamson; Lieutenants J. W. Home, T. B. Meredith, J. F. Mosse,
W. Sherlock, and T. N. R. Burton; Ensigns G. A. Macdonnell, H. B.
Moore, G. C. Irving, T. H. S. Sewell, G. W. N. Rogers; Adjutant W. H.
Herbert; Paymaster R. B. Farwell; Quartermaster M. Hackett; Surgeon
J. H. Lewis; Assistant-Surgeons H. A. Coglan and W. Orr.

[226] See chapter vii.

[227] See Appendix 9.

[228] See Appendix 9.

[229] The following officers of the regiment served in the Afghan
War:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--M. J. R. MacGregor.

  Majors--R. I. Adamson and H. Shaw, V.C.

  Captains--A. J. A. Jackson, J. G. Butts, J. Blair, H. F. S.
  Bolton, W. W. Lawrence, St G. A. Smith, E. Tufnell, and J. W.
  Graves.

  Lieutenants--S. Phillips, J. B. Forster, J. H. A. Spyer, P. A.
  Morshead, H. S. Lye (adjutant till promoted captain), S. S.
  Parkyn, C. E. Le Quesne, H. M. Hatchell, Hon. M. H. H. McDonnell,
  and P. B. Lindsell.

  Second Lieutenants--N. A. Francis (adjutant), R. M. Maxwell, A.
  I. Wilson, D. M. Thompson, B. J. C. Doran, E. B. W. J. Fraser, S.
  Moore, H. F. Loch, and H. E. Richardson.

  Quartermaster--R. Barrett, succeeded by Sergeant-Major W.
  Jamieson.

  Paymaster--Captain J. Forbes-Mosse.

[230] The names will be found in Appendix 2 (L). A memorial to those
who lost their lives in Afghanistan, in Egypt in 1882, and the Nile
campaign of 1884-85 is in the barrack square of the depôt at Clonmel.

[231] See Appendix 9.

[232] See Appendix 9.

[233] See Map No. 8.

[234] Cromer’s ‘Modern Egypt,’ vol. i. pp. 91, 92.

[235] The figures quoted are all in British currency.

[236] The British Government in 1875 suddenly bought up four
millions’ worth of Suez Canal shares, owned by the Khedive, which he
was about to put upon the market. This stroke of policy made England
a large shareholder in the Canal Company, and therefore gave her an
important position in the commercial management of its affairs.

[237] About 90,000 Europeans, chiefly English and French, carried on
business in Egypt at this time.

[238] Lord Cromer’s ‘Modern Egypt,’ vol. i., gives an excellent
account of the European diplomacy of this period.

[239] A quaint report by an Egyptian officer in charge of a battery
“complained of the very improper conduct of the English fleet in
that, whilst his men were at work on the battery at night, suddenly
a blaze of electric light was thrown upon them, so that what they
were doing could be seen as if it were day--a proceeding which, as
the officer avers, was distinctly discourteous on the part of the
English.”--Maurice, ‘Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in
Egypt.’

[240] Reinforcements of many thousands more were on their way to
Egypt when the collapse of Arabi’s rebellion rendered their presence
at the front unnecessary.

[241] Maurice, p. 41.

[242] Maurice, pp. 25, 26.

[243] The officers who went out to Egypt with the battalion were
Brevet-Colonel C. F. Gregorie (in command); Majors J. M. Toppin and
G. W. N. Rogers; Captains J. H. Daubeney, C. E. Dixon, C. E. G.
Burr, H. S. Lye, C. E. Le Quesne, and H. M. Hatchell; Lieutenants
E. J. Grant, A. G. Chichester, J. H. Chawner, G. H. Symonds
(Adjutant), D. G. Gregorie, A. S. Orr, W. R. B. Doran, A. T. Ward,
H. D. Daly; Quartermaster and Honorary Captain T. Hamilton; Surgeon
J. Prendergast, A.M.D.; Paymaster P. A. Robinson. Attached to the
battalion were Captains C. N. Jones (Connaught Rangers) and H. H.
Edwards (Royal Welsh Fusiliers); Lieutenants G. P. Hatch (Wiltshire
regiment), N. L. Pearse (Derbyshire regiment), H. H. Drummond-Wolff
(Royal Fusiliers), and E. M. Barttelot (Royal Fusiliers).

[244] See Appendix 2 (M).

[245] Otherwise known as the Sweet-water Canal.

[246] The orders directed that the water-bottles should, if possible,
contain cold tea, the beverage which Lord Wolseley constantly
recommended on active service.

[247] It was forbidden to strike matches, so watches could not be
consulted.

[248] This distance is understated; it was probably more than 800
yards.

[249] A delightful story is told of one of the XVIIIth who was asked
on his return home how many of the enemy had fallen. He replied, “I
don’t just know, but I killed devil a one less than five hundred with
my own bayonet!”

[250] The names will be found in Appendix 2 (M). There is a memorial
to those who died in this campaign in the barrack square of the depôt
at Clonmel.

[251] The mosquitos at Alexandria appear to have made a great
impression, not only on the bodies, but also on the imaginations of
the young officers of the Royal Irish. One subaltern stated that
these pests had bitten his foot through the sole of a shooting boot,
while another asserted that the mosquitos were so intelligent and so
strong that three of them used to combine to lift up his mosquito-net
to allow their friends to feast upon his hot Irish blood.

[252] Colvile, ‘History of the Soudan Campaign’ (official), p. 1.

[253] See Map No. 9.

[254] Colonel Stewart had already been to Khartoum, where he was sent
on a tour of inspection soon after the European officers had demanded
large reinforcements to enable them to make head against the Mahdi.

[255] The junior ranks of the British army are so used to receiving
their rations with regularity on active service that they appear to
think the Army Service Corps can feed them as the ravens fed Elijah.
They do not realise the enormous amount of thought and calculation
which have been lavished on the subject for months before the opening
of a campaign. It is not within the scope of a regimental history
to describe in detail the process by which Lord Wolseley succeeded
in feeding his column in a country the principal products of which
are water and sand. Those who wish to study the subject will find
full information in Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ and
Butler’s ‘Campaign of the Cataracts.’

[256]

  Lieutenant-Colonels--H. Shaw, V.C. (in command), T. C. Wray
  (second in command).

  Majors--A. W. Simpson, E. Tufnell, C. E. Dixon.

  Captains--J. H. A. Spyer, J. B. Forster, H. W. N. Guinness, W. J.
  F. Morgan, A. M. Boisragon.

  Lieutenants--C. M. Stevens, A. I. Wilson, B. J. C. Doran, S.
  Moore (adjutant), K. P. Apthorp, E. F. Hickman, L. C. Koe, and
  W. R. B. Doran. Lieutenant H. J. Jones joined at Wadi Halfa on
  December 8.

  Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant--W. Jamieson.

  Paymaster and Honorary Major--J. Forbes-Mosse (attached; before
  joining the pay department this officer had been in the XVIIIth).

  Surgeon--Captain G. B. Hickson, Medical Staff.

[257] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. i. pp. 117-119.

[258] The cataract of Kaiber is termed the Third. It should really be
numbered the Eighth. Butler, ‘Campaign of the Cataracts,’ p. 200.

[259] For the benefit of the civilian reader it must be explained
that “Skipper” is army slang for the officer commanding a company.

[260] Captain Forster’s marching-out state at Sarras showed a total
of ninety-two in his company; his marching-in state at Korti only
seventy-seven of all ranks.

[261] This name is spelt Jakdul in some maps.

[262] The Maconochie ration, so much appreciated during the war of
1899-1902, was not then in use.

[263] See Appendix 2 (N).

[264] Colvile’s ‘History of the Soudan Campaign,’ vol. ii. p. 73.

[265] Marching-out state from Abu Klea, 23rd February 1885:--

  ---------------------+------+------------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----
                       |     OFFICERS.     |    OTHER RANKS.   |
                       +------+-----+------+------+-----+------+ Camels.
          Corps.       |Avail-|Sick.|Total.|Avail-|Sick.|Total.|    Horses.
                       | able.|     |      | able.|     |      |      Natives.
  ---------------------+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----
  Naval Brigade,       |   11 |     |   11 |  102 |   2 |  104 |     |   |
  XIXth Hussars,       |    1 |     |    1 |   13 |   1 |   14 |     |   |
  Light Camel Regiment,|   13 |   1 |   14 |  196 |   6 |  202 |     |   |
  Mounted Infantry  }  |      |     |      |      |     |      |     |   |
    Camel Regiment, }  |   20 |   1 |   21 |  311 |   5 |  316 |     |   |
  Royal Artillery,     |    6 |     |    6 |   75 |   2 |   77 |     |   |
  Royal Engineers,     |    2 |     |    2 |   24 |     |   24 |     |   |
  Royal Irish Regiment,|   21 |   1 |   22 |  596 |  13 |  609 |     |   |
  Royal Sussex do.,    |    7 |     |    7 |  217 |   7 |  224 |     |   |
  Royal West Kent do., |    1 |     |    1 |   21 |     |   21 |     |   |
  Commissariat and    }|      |     |      |      |     |      |     |   |
    Transport Corps,  }|    6 |     |    6 |   38 |     |   38 |     |   |
  Medical Staff Corps, |    5 |   1 |    6 |   43 |     |   43 |     |   |
  Headquarter Staff,   |    6 |     |    6 |    4 |     |    4 |     |   |
  Army Chaplain,       |    1 |     |    1 |      |     |      |     |   |
                       +------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----
                       |  100 |   4 |  104 | 1640 |  36 | 1676 | 1180| 30| 386
  ---------------------+------+-----+------+------+-----+------+-----+---+----

[266] 25 officers, 3 warrant officers, 33 sergeants, 15 drummers, 891
rank and file.

[267] The following officers of the Royal Irish regiment served in
the Hazara campaign:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel--G. W. N. Rogers.

  Major--R. K. Brereton.

  Captains--W. J. F. Morgan, F. J. Gavin, A. N. Lysaght,
  Brevet-Major--B. J. C. Doran.

  Lieutenants--K. P. Apthorp, A. S. Orr, W. R. B. Doran, A. T.
  Ward, P. de S. Bass, H. J. Downing, A. B. King, L. C. Koe, J. E.
  Cullinan, C. W. Garraway, T. L. Segrave, G. O. R. Wynne, C. W.
  Walker, W. Gloster, R. O. Kellett.

  Paymaster--Honorary Captain P. A. Robinson.

  Quartermaster--Honorary Major T. Hamilton.

[268] The distances are only approximate.

[269] The column marched in the following formation. The
advance-guard of two companies of the Royal Irish was followed in
succession by brigade headquarters, two guns, and three companies
of Native infantry. Then came the headquarters of the column, the
remainder of the Royal Irish, two more guns and some Gatlings, five
companies of native infantry, the regimental reserve ammunition, a
company of native infantry, the Field hospital, and a detachment of
Royal Engineer telegraphists. In rear was the whole of the baggage,
including the seven days’ supply, escorted by four companies of
native infantry.

[270] These are the official figures. In the opinion of some of the
officers who were present they are too high.

[271] As the official account states that eighty-eight dead bodies
were found on the ground over which the swordsmen attempted to
charge, it is clear that the Royal Irish used their weapons to good
purpose.

[272] This trophy, pierced with more than one bullet, hangs in the
Officers’ Mess of the second battalion.

[273] While the regiment was at the front Mr Rudyard Kipling in a
ballad made the immortal Mulvaney predict the result of sending an
Irish corps on a campaign where field canteens were not allowed.
Thanks to the kind permission of Mr Kipling the ballad is reproduced.

  “THE WAY AV UT!”

  “The Black Mountain Expedition is apparently to be a tetotal
  affair.”--_Vide_ ‘Civil and Military Gazette,’ October 5, 1888.

  “A charge of Ghazis was met by the Royal Irish, who accounted
  for the whole of them.... The Royal Irish then carried the
  position.”--‘Pioneer.’

      “I met with ould Mulvaney and he tuk me by the hand,
      Sez he: ‘Fwhat _kubber_’ from the front, and will the Paythans stand?”
      “O Terence, dear, in all Clonmel such things were never seen,
      They’ve sent a rigimint to war widout a fiel’ canteen!

      “’Tis not a Highland rigimint, for they wud niver care,
      Their Corp’rils carry hymn-books an’ they open fire wid prayer--
      ’Tis not an English rigimint that burns a blue light flame,
      ’Tis the Eighteenth Royal Irish, man! as thirsty as they’re game!

      “An’ Terence bit upon his poipe, an’ shpat behin’ the door--
      ‘’Tis Bobs,’ sez he, ‘that knows the thrick av making bloody war.
      Ye say they go widout their dhrink?” “and that’s the trut,”’ sez I!
      “Thin Heaven help the Muddy Khels they call an Akazai!

      “I lay wid them in Dublin wanst, an’ we was Oirish tu,
      We passed the time av day, an’ thin the belts wint ‘_whirraru_,’
      I misremember fwhat occurred, but, followin’ the shtorm,
      A ‘Freeman’s Journal’ Supplemint was all my uniform!

      “They’re rocks upon parade, but oh! in barricks they are hard--
      They’re ragin,’ tearin’ divils whin there’s ructions on the kyard--
      An’ onless they’ve changed their bullswools for a baby’s sock, I think
      They’d rake all Hell for grandeur--an’ I _know_ they wud for dhrink!

      “An’ Bobs has sent them out to war widout a dhrop or dhrain?
      ’Tis he will put the ‘_jildy_’ in this dissolute campaign.
      They’d fight for frolic half the year, but now their liquor’s cut,
      The wurrd ’l go: ‘Don’t waste your time! the bay’net and the butt!’

      “Six hundher’ stiflin’ throats in front--tu hundher’ lef’ behind
      To suk the pickins av the cask whiniver they’ve a mind!
      I would _not_ be the Paythan man forninst the ‘_Sungar_’ wall
      Whin those six hundher gintlemen projuce the long bradawl!

      “They will be dhry--tremenjus dhry--an’ not a dhram to toss--
      Divils of Ballydaval, Holy Saints av Holy Cross!
      An’ Holy Cross they all will be from Carrick to Clogheen,
      Thrapesin’ after naygur-_log_ widout a fiel’ canteen.

      “Will they be long among the hills? my troth, they will not so--
      They’re cramming down their fightin’ now to have ut done, an’ go--
      For Bobs, the Timp’rance Shtrategist, has whipped them on the nail.
      ’Tis cruel on the Oirish, but--’tis murther on the Kheyl!”

[274] See Appendix 2 (O).

[275] The following officers took part in the Tirah Campaign:--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--W. W. Lawrence (in command).

  Majors--J. B. Forster, H. S. Lye, F. J. Gavin, E. Lindesay.

  Captain and Brevet-Major--B. J. C. Doran (served on the staff
  throughout the operations and was mentioned in despatches).

  Captains--A. S. Orr, A. B. King, D. H. Davis (adjutant), G. F. R.
  Forbes, R. G. S. L. Moriarty, H. N. Kelly.

  Lieutenants--J. B. S. Alderson, C. E. Galway, F. L. Fosbery, E.
  F. Milner, E. H. E. Daniell, W. H. White, F. M. Watkins, F. S.
  Lillie.

  2nd Lieutenants--C. de J. Luxmore, T. J. Willans, L. J. Lipsett,
  H. W. R. Potter, G. W. P. Haslam, T. C. FitzHugh, M. Furber, J.
  G. Lawrence, D. Barton.

  Quartermaster and Hon. Lieutenant--J. J. Fox.

  Surgeon--Major C. R. Bartlett, R.A.M.S.

The following officers were attached to the battalion:--

  Captain--G. L. Hobbs, the Connaught Rangers.

  Lieutenants--H. E. Tizard, Royal Munster Fusiliers; B. C. W.
  Williams, Yorkshire regiment; A. J. B. Church, the Connaught
  Rangers; F. A. D’O. Goddard, Royal Munster Fusiliers; H. R. G.
  Deacon and F. J. Byrne, both of the Connaught Rangers; G. A.
  Ellis and M. L. Pears, both of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

  Second Lieutenant--H. W. Gough, the Connaught Rangers.

[276] During the short time the battalion was at the front no less
than 455 of the Royal Irish fell ill and were admitted into hospital.

[277] See Appendix 9.

[278] See Appendix 9.

[279] For casualties see Appendix 2 (P).

[280] See Appendix 9.

[281] Gazette of July 19, 1898. See chapter xiii. and Appendix 9.

[282] While out with the hounds at Clonmel one of the officers of
the first battalion made a sensational jump, thus described in
the sporting papers: “Mr Vigors, of the Royal Irish Regiment, now
stationed at Clonmel, was riding a cob he had purchased a short time
previously from Mr Burke, and racing at the road fence (a low wall
on the inside, but very treacherous on the roadway, as it had been
cut away 9 feet to level a hill) the cob jumped clean on to the road,
with a fall outside of 11 feet. The horse never fell, but Mr Vigors
fell on the cob’s neck, and slipped off at the far side of the road,
luckily unhurt.”

[283] See page 361.

[284] For the details of the kit and equipment with which the
soldiers sailed for South Africa, see Appendix 6.

[285] See page 365.

[286] The following officers went to the war with the battalion;
followed it to South Africa; served on the staff, or with mounted
infantry. (The ranks are those held at the beginning of the war):--

  Lieutenant-Colonel--H. W. N. Guinness (in command).

  Major--H. M. Hatchell.

  Majors--F. J. Gavin, A. N. Lysaght, K. P. Apthorp.

  Captains--A. S. Orr, H. J. Downing (Adjutant), W. Gloster, W. E.
  S. Burch, J. B. S. Alderson, G. M. Grogan, F. L. Fosbery, E. F.
  Milner, E. H. E. Daniell, R. L. Owens, R. G. L. Crumpe.

  Lieutenants--W. H. White, M. H. E. Welch, A. W. Brush, L. L.
  Farmer, E. M. Panter-Downes, J. A. M. J. P. Kelly, G. A. Elliot,
  T. C. Fitz Hugh, H. T. A. S. Boyce, G. W. P. Haslam.

  Second Lieutenants--G. H. Holland, J. L. O. Mansergh, H.
  Anderson, W. M. Acton, C. E. Dease, J. L. Cotter, G. A.
  O’Callaghan, L. W. M. Lloyd (seconded from 4th battalion), H.
  G. Gregorie (from Imperial Light Infantry), Hon. H. R. T. G.
  Fitzmaurice-Deane-Morgan (3rd battalion), W. A. Senior (nominated
  by the authorities of Public Schools), S. Hutchins (9th battalion
  K.R.R.C.), R. B. S. Dunlop (Channel Islands Militia), F. Call,
  T. B. Vandaleur (Local Military Forces of Cape of Good Hope), F.
  J. R. Hughes (3rd battalion), A. C. S. Fletcher, R. Palmer (3rd
  battalion West Riding regiment).

  Quartermaster and Honorary Captain--F. P. Reger.

  Surgeon--Lieutenant J. Matthews, R.A.M.C. (during the greater
  part of the war).

The officers who served extra regimentally were--

  _On the Staff_--

  Majors--A. G. Chichester, B. J. C. Doran, Brevet-Major W. R. B.
  Doran.

  _With Mounted Infantry_--

  Captains--R. A. Smyth, S. G. French, R. R. Arbuthnot, S. E. St
  Leger.

  Lieutenants--P. U. Vigors, E. C. Lloyd, S. H. L. Galbraith.

The following officers of the 5th (Irish) Volunteer battalion, King’s
(Liverpool regiment) were attached at various times:--

  Captain--T. Warwick Williams.

  Lieutenants--J. Goffey, J. H. Grindley, J. L. L. Ferris, W. G.
  Lindsey, H. M. Bayer, D. R. Grindley.

[287] One of the shells fell in the tent occupied by the Roman
Catholic chaplain, Father Alexander--happily when he was not at
home! At Bloemfontein he was succeeded by Father Rawlinson, who was
attached to the battalion for many months. The Anglican chaplain was
the Reverend ---- Wright.

[288] Lieutenant E. M. Panter-Downes, Royal Irish, was in charge
of the signallers, and received much praise for his work in the
Colesberg-Arundel operations.

[289] The mounted infantry of the Royal Irish were present at the
relief of Kimberley, and at Cronje’s surrender on February 27.

[290] ‘Official History of the War in South Africa,’ vol. ii. p. 250.

[291]

                                                                  Other
                                                        Officers. ranks.
  3rd battalion Royal Irish regiment
                           (formerly Wexford militia),          2   136
  4th     ”       ”      ”
                           (formerly North Tipperary militia),  1   127
  5th     ”       ”      ”
                           (formerly Kilkenny militia),        --   160

[292] According to the Official History, one part of this detachment
marched 45 miles in 36 hours; the other covered 73 miles in 52 hours.

[293] A large party of the Royal Irish mounted infantry served in
Hamilton’s column.

[294] Official History, vol. iii. p. 105. This part of the Orange
Free State had been the scene of a long series of wars with the
Basutos, whom the original Vortrekers (the pioneers of the Dutch
emigration from Cape Colony) had gradually driven back into the
mountains of Basutoland.

[295] Composition of Clements’ column on June 28, 1900 (from
Clements’ Staff Diary):--

  2nd Bedford regiment                           854
  2nd Worcester    ”                             846
  1st Royal Irish  ”                             892
  2nd Wiltshire    ”                             908
  8th Battery R.F.A.                             136
  2 guns 5-in. 6th Co. R.G.A.                     63
  1 section ammunition column                     17
  1 section 38th Co. R.E.                         32
  2nd Brabant’s Horse and 2 companies Yeomanry   696
  16th Imperial Yeomanry                         237
  Malta M.I.                                     133
  Royal Scots M.I.                                67
  12th brigade Field Hospital                     38
  12th brigade Bearer Company                     33
  12th brigade Supply Depôt                        9
                                                ----
                                                4961

[296] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[297] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[298] So called because the officers and men belonged to regiments
stationed at Malta at the beginning of the war.

[299] The correspondence was as follows:--

“I, Ralph Clements, Major-General, having full power from
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, G.C.B., &c., Commander-in-Chief of Her
Britannic Majesty’s forces now in South Africa, hereby demand the
surrender of the town of Bethlehem to me by 10 A.M. this day, Friday,
July 6, 1900--failing which I shall bombard the town.

“The inhabitants are hereby informed that should the town surrender,
and subsequent to its surrender any firing takes place at the troops
under my command when occupying it, the town will be shelled and
burned.

  “R. CLEMENTS.”

  “To well-respected Sir R. CLEMENTS.

“RESPECTED SIR,--In connection with the missive you have addressed
dated 6th July to the village of Bethlehem I have, your Excellency,
herewith to state that no reply can be given.

“The responsibility will rest on you for the blood of innocent women
and children in case you should bombard the town.--I have the honour
to be, Sir, &c.,

  “C. R. DE WET,
  “_Chief Commandant_.”

[300] The greater part of the Royal Irish mounted infantry were in
this column, see p. 367.

[301] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[302] When the author visited Slabbert’s Nek in 1907 he found the
grave well kept, and marked by handsome cross of white marble. The
graves at Bethlehem were also in good order.

[303] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[304] Lance-Corporal Doyle was promoted to be corporal on July 26,
1900.

[305] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[306] In South Africa every estate in the country is called a farm,
but this is a misnomer, for no Boer landowner (at least before the
war) thought of working his estate as a farm in the European sense of
the word. He was indifferent to agriculture, and devoted his land to
the raising of stock. By Australians the Boer farms would be called
runs; by Canadians from the north-west of the Dominion they would be
described as ranches.

[307] Official History, vol. iii. p. 380.

[308] In Hamilton’s Force were soldiers from all parts of the British
Empire. The Divisional troops were Brabant’s Horse (South African
volunteers); two batteries of Royal Field artillery; four guns of
a Canadian volunteer battery; the “Elswick battery,” manned by
artisans, volunteers from the north of England; two 5-in. guns, and
a section of pom-poms.

Mahon’s Force was composed of a battery of Royal Horse artillery;
a section of pom-poms; the Imperial Light Horse (South African
volunteers); Lumsden’s Horse (volunteers from India, largely
recruited from planters in Behar); a battalion of Imperial Yeomanry
(volunteers from the Old Country); a squadron of Hussars, and mounted
volunteers from Queensland and New Zealand.

Infantry brigades--Smith-Dorrien’s: the first battalions of the Royal
Scots, Royal Irish, and Gordon Highlanders, and the mounted infantry
of the City Imperial volunteers; Cunningham’s: 1st battalion King’s
Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd battalion Royal Berkshire regiment, 1st
battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

The Engineers, Ammunition and Supply Park, Hospitals, and Bearer
Companies were all supplied by the regular army.

The strength of Smith-Dorrien’s Infantry units was as follows:--

                            Fit for duty.
                     -------------------------     Sick at
                           At           On     headquarters or  Total.
                     headquarters.  detachment. on detachment.
  1st Royal Scots         1206           61           121        1388
  1st Royal Irish          868          239           199        1306
  1st Gordon Highlanders   741          236           153        1130

[309] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[310] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[311] The experience gained after some months of escorting trains is
epitomised in the instructions issued by the Chief of the General
Staff, which will be found in Appendix 7.

[312] Barry had served with the 2nd battalion in the campaigns on the
north-west frontier of India.

[313] The machine gun was recaptured a few months later by the Royal
Irish, and was presented to the regiment by the Secretary of State
for War in 1904.

[314] For his conduct on this occasion No. 4216 Corporal H. N. Forbes
was awarded the medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field.

[315] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[316] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[317] According to regimental tradition the information reached
Captain White, Royal Irish, the local Intelligence officer, in a
curious way. Viljoen had in his service a Kaffir, whose father was
employed by us at Lydenburg. The younger Kaffir overheard Viljoen
mention in conversation that he meant to return to Pilgrim’s Rest
on a certain day; and obtaining leave of absence, passed the news
on to his father, who in his turn reported it to the Intelligence
department. It seems almost incredible that Viljoen should have been
guilty of such an indiscretion as to talk of his intended movements
within earshot of a Kaffir: but if the account is accurate, it
affords another illustration of the truth of the saying--“What is
rumoured in your camp to-day will be known to-morrow by the enemy.”

[318] Afterwards Sergeant-Major, 2nd battalion, Royal Irish regiment.

[319] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[320] See Appendix 2 (Q). Captain St Leger’s exploit would
have remained unknown had not Corporal Parker written to his
own commanding officer to report the matter. Unfortunately the
non-commissioned officer’s letter did not reach the War Office until
the list of rewards for South Africa was finally closed.

[321] As early as May, 1900, the author ascertained from Boer
prisoners that in the commandos it was commonly said that if the
burghers were driven out of Pretoria they would break back through
the east of the Free State and burst into Cape Colony by the drifts
over the Orange river near Aliwal North.

[322] This man’s death was a sad one: he fell down a well, 45 feet
deep, at Needspan, and his body was not discovered for several days.
An officer writes of him: “he was one of the best soldiers and the
cheeriest of men whom I have ever met; and his behaviour both in camp
and field was excellent.”

[323] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[324] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[325] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[326] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[327] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[328] See Appendix 2 (Q).

[329] The names of most of the militia officers who were seconded
in these battalions for service in South Africa have been mentioned
already; among the others who did duty either with mounted infantry
or with other infantry corps at the seat of war were: Captains G. H.
P. Colley, J. O. Johnson, A. J. Fox, and Lieutenant E. H. B. Thompson.

[330] _I.e._, identity card.

[331] The Memorials are enumerated, and described in the order that
they appear in the frontispiece, commencing on the left.

[332] These are grouped round the South African Window.

Transcriber’s note:

  All changes noted in the CORRIGENDA at the front of the book have
  been applied to the etext.

  Some Footnotes having the same text on a page were merged in the
  original book, for example ‘1 & 2 See Appendix 9’. These have been
  separated in the etext to two distinct Footnotes.

  Curly braces { and } present in some Tables in the original book
  have sometimes been removed in the etext Tables.

  The name Villeroi is sometimes spelled Villeroy; this dual spelling
  has been left unchanged.

  Six occurrences of the italicised _moral_ have been replaced by
  _morale_.

  The seven references to ‘Curaçoa’ refer to the Caribbean island
  of Curaçao.

  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,
  great-coat, greatcoat; breast-works, breastworks; in-shore, inshore;
  embarcation; withes; drily.

  Pg 9: ‘Ensign ... Smith’ replaced by ‘Ensign ---- Smith’ (unknown
         name).
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  Pg 438: ‘is at page 252’ replaced by ‘is at page 231’.

  INDEX:
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  ‘Khangeim’ replaced by ‘Khangheim’.
  ‘Slaap Krantz’ replaced by ‘Slaap Kranz’.

  Footnote 18: ‘must^r Gen^{ll}’ is short for ‘Muster Master General’.

  Footnote 26: ‘See p. 177’ replaced by ‘See p. 77’.

  Footnote 33: the Table was very wide and has been split into two
  parts. The left-side column (Corps loss) has been duplicated for the
  second part.

  Footnote 38: the Total ‘2324’ in the Table and spelled out in the
  text on page 39, is incorrect and should be ‘2234’, but it has not
  been changed. The Table was very wide and has been split into two
  parts. The three left-side columns (Corps, No. of Battalions, No.
  of Squadrons) have been duplicated for the second part. Two notations
  beginning ‘(Seven squadrons ...)’ and ‘(of the Empire ...)’ were
  inside the Table in the original book. These have been marked with
  * and ** and placed under the Table as Notes.

  Footnote 279: ‘see Appendix 1 (P)’ replaced by ‘see Appendix 2 (P)’.