Historical Record of the Thirty-ninth, or the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1853.

Part 13

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While commanding the THIRTY-NINTH in New South Wales, the government of the colony for a short time devolved upon Colonel Lindesay, namely, from the 22nd of October to the 2nd of December 1831. In July 1832 six companies of the regiment proceeded from Sydney to Madras, and were followed in December by the remaining four companies. Upon joining the Madras army he was appointed a Colonel on the staff, and Commandant of Bangalore on the 15th of February 1833. In April 1834 he commanded the expedition against the Rajah of Coorg, with the rank of Brigadier-General in India, which was conducted with a skill, ability, and success, that added greatly to his military reputation. Appointed on the 3rd of January 1835 to the southern division of the Madras army, with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, he commanded the troops stationed at Trichinopoly, when he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. His health, for the first time during his long and active service, began to fail, and in the beginning of 1836 Colonel Lindesay returned to England; on the 10th of January 1837 he was advanced to the rank of Major-General, and on the 19th of July 1838 was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

Major-General Sir Patrick Lindesay for a time appeared to derive benefit from his native air, and the society of friends and relatives, but the seeds of disease had taken too deep a hold of his constitution to enable it to rally. After a lingering illness, he died at Portobello, near Edinburgh, on the 14th of March 1839, in the sixty-second year of his age, having completed a course of more than forty-four years’ active service.

_List of Fifty-six Battalions formed from Men raised under the_ ARMY OF RESERVE _and_ ADDITIONAL FORCE ACTS, _in the Years 1803 and 1804_.

_Under the Army of Reserve Acts in 1803._

The following _Nineteen Regiments_ were appointed to receive men raised for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland, under the _Army of Reserve Acts_, passed in the year 1803, and were augmented by second battalions, viz.:

+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+ | IN ENGLAND. | IN SCOTLAND. | IN IRELAND. | | Under the Act | Under the Act | Under the Act | | passed on the | passed on the | passed on the | | 6th of July 1803. | 6th of July 1803. | 11th of July 1803. | +----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+ | 3rd Reg. 53rd Reg. | 26th Regiment | 18th Regiment | | 28th ” 57th ” | 42nd ” | 44th ” | | 30th ” 61st ” | 92nd ” | 58th ” | | 39th ” 66th ” | | 67th ” | | 47th ” 69th ” | | | | 48th ” 81st ” | | | +----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+

In addition to the above corps, _Sixteen Reserve Battalions_ were also formed from the men raised in the several counties of Great Britain and Ireland, under the _Army of Reserve Acts_, as under specified, viz.:

+-----------------------+------------------------+ | IN ENGLAND. | IN SCOTLAND. | +-----------------------+------------------------+ | 1st Reserve Battalion.| 5th Reserve Battalion.| | 3rd ” | 14th ” | | 4th ” +------------------------+ | 6th ” | IN IRELAND. | | 7th ” +------------------------+ | 8th ” | 2nd Reserve Battalion.| | 9th ” | 13th ” | | 10th ” | 16th ” | | 11th ” | | | 12th ” | | | 15th ” | | +-----------------------+------------------------+

_Under the Additional Force Acts in 1804._

In the year 1804, _Thirty-seven_ other Regiments (as shown in the following list) were augmented by second battalions, in consequence of having been appointed to receive men raised for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland, under the _Additional Force Acts_ passed on the 29th of June, and 10th and 14th of July 1804, viz.:

+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | IN ENGLAND. | | Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. | +---------------------+----------------------+-------------------+ | 5th Foot | 25th Foot | 56th Foot | | 6th ” | 31st ” | 59th ” | | 7th ” | 32nd ” | 62nd ” | | 8th ” | 36th ” | 63rd ” | | 9th ” | 38th ” | 82nd ” | | 10th ” | 40th ” | 83rd ” | | 14th ” | 43rd ” | 90th ” | | 15th ” | 45th ” | 96th ” late 2nd | | 23rd ” | 50th ” | Battalion of | | 24th ” | 52nd ” | 52nd Regiment. | +---------------------+-----------+----------+-------------------+ | IN SCOTLAND. | IN IRELAND. | | Under the Act passed on | Under the Act passed on | | the 10th of July 1804. | 14th of July 1804. | +---------------------------------+------------------------------+ | 1st Royal Regiment | 27th Regiment | | 21st ” | 87th ” | | 71st ” | 88th ” | | 72nd ” | 89th ” | | 91st ” | | +---------------------------------+------------------------------+

List of the _Fifty-six_ regiments which were appointed to receive men, raised for limited service in England, Scotland, and Ireland, under the _Additional Force Acts_, passed in the year 1804, including the _Nineteen_ regiments (marked thus *) which had been augmented by _Second Battalions_ from the men raised under the _Army of Reserve Acts_ passed in the previous year (1803), and specifying the counties allotted to the several regiments.

_Adjutant-General’s Office, Horse-Guards, 1804._

+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | IN ENGLAND. | | Under the Act passed on the 29th of June 1804. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Regiments.| Counties. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | *3rd | London City. | | 5th | Sussex. | | 6th | Lancaster. | | 7th | York (West Riding). | | 8th | York (North Riding). | | 9th | Dorset and Somerset. | | 10th | Essex. | | 14th | Bedford, Buckingham, Northampton. | | 15th | York (East Riding). | | 23rd | Anglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, & Merioneth. | | 24th | Warwick. | | 25th | Cumberland, Westmoreland. | | *28th | Devon. | | *30th | Huntingdon, Leicester, Cambridge. | | 31st | Chester. | | 32nd | Cornwall. | | 36th | Durham. | | 38th | Stafford. | | *39th | Salop. | | 40th | Dorset & Somerset, late Second Battalion of 52nd | | | Regiment. | | 43rd | Worcester. | | 45th | Nottingham & Rutland. | | *47th | Norfolk. | | *48th | Lancaster. | | 50th | Gloucester. | | 52nd | Hertford, Oxford, & Bucks. | | *53rd | York (West Riding). | | 56th | Surrey. | | *57th | Kent, & the Cinque Ports. | | 59th | Derby. | | *61st | Northumberland. | | 62nd | Wilts. | | 63rd | Suffolk. | | *66th | Hants, & the Isle of Wight. | | *69th | Lincoln. | | *81st | Hereford, Montgomery, & Radnor. | | 82nd | Tower Hamlets. | | 83rd | Middlesex. | | 90th | Monmouth, Glamorgan, & Brecknock. | | 96th | Cardigan, Carmarthen, & Pembroke. | | | | FORTY REGIMENTS. | | | +==================================================================+ | IN SCOTLAND. | | Under the Act passed on the 10th of July 1804. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Regiments.| Counties. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | 1st | Lanark, Wigton, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, | | Royal | & Roxburgh. | | 21st | Renfrew & Ayr. | | *26th | Edinburgh City & County, Linlithgow, Peebles, | | | Berwick, & Haddington. | | *42nd | Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, & Caithness. | | 71st | Stirling, Dumbarton, Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, | | | Kincardine, & Forfar. | | 72nd | Aberdeen. | | 91st | Bute, Argyle, & Perth. | | *92nd | Nairn, Elgin, Inverness, & Banff. | | | | EIGHT REGIMENTS. | | | +==================================================================+ | IN IRELAND. | | Under the Act passed on the 14th of July 1804. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Regiments.| Counties. | +-----------+------------------------------------------------------+ | *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. | | 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. | | *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, | | | & Queen’s County. | | *58th | Cork City & County, & Kerry. | | *67th | Dublin City & County, Roscommon, | | | Longford, & Meath. | | 87th | Tipperary, Galway, & Clare. | | 88th | Cavan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, & Mayo. | | 89th | Wexford, Kilkenny, Waterford, & Limerick City | | | & County. | | *18th | Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, & Antrim. | | 27th | Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, & Down. | | *44th | Kildare, Wicklow, Carlow, Westmeath, King’s County, | | | & Queen’s County. | | | | EIGHT REGIMENTS. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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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.

Eight occurrences of ‘Guadaloupe’ have been changed to ‘Guadeloupe’.

Pg ix: ‘Passage of the _Niver_’ replaced by ‘Passage of the _Nive_’. Pg 24: ‘but in conquence’ replaced by ‘but in consequence’. Pg 48: Sidenote ‘1810. 2nd Batt.’ replaced by ‘1810. 1st Batt.’. Pg 79: Missing Sidenote ‘1836.’ inserted before ‘In February 1836’. Pg 121: ‘THIRTH-NINTH’ replaced by ‘THIRTY-NINTH’.