Fusiliers (64 page)

298 ‘
The sight greeting Lieutenant General James
’: details of the review,
TNA
:
PRO WO
27/51.

— ‘
a very pretty effect when saluting
’: ibid.

299 ‘
always behaved like a father to me
’: this phrase occurs in Lamb’s letter to the War Office of 26 September 1808, and is reproduced in Hagist,
Journal
for the Society of Army Historical Research
(forthcoming).

— ‘
kindly and humanely reasoned with me
’: Lamb described the scene in his memoirs, see Hagist.

— ‘
Lamb… felt that his affections had not been returned
’: Lamb did not mention that award of the serjeant majorship to another man in his published memoirs, presumably because of his wounded pride over the matter. His hurt feelings over the affair emerge in his unpublished scrapbook.

300 ‘
I left London on the 15th March
’: ibid.

— ‘
In all 142 men of the
23rd
were discharged
’: Muster Rolls,
TNA: PRO WO
12/3960.

— ‘
seventy-three of those still in the 23rd… were more than thirty years old
’:
TNA: PRO WO
27/51; the Inspection Return is source of much useful information, including the subsequent facts about the location of various officers.

301 ‘
on the morning of 19 August 1785
’: Colonel Dundas’s report on his trip to Prussia sits in the
BL
as ‘Remarks on the Prussian Troops and their Movements’, king’s
MS
241. This report contains the following quote about twenty-nine battalions in line.

302 ‘
the facility with which these troops manoeuvre
’: ibid.

303 ‘
his military ideas are those of a wild boy of the Guards
’: Cornwallis to Ross, 5 October 1785 in Ross. The same letter contains the damning assessment of the Prussian manoeuvres quoted subsequently.

— ‘
never was attempted before… it succeeded surprisingly well
’: York to George III, 7 October 1785, quoted in Alfred H. Burne
The Noble Duke of
York
, London 1947.

— ‘
much slower in their movements
’: letter to Ross, cited above.

304 ‘
Instead of being considered as an accessory to the battalion
’: Colonel David Dundas,
Principles of Military Movements, Chiefly Applied to Infantry
, 1788.

— ‘
all young men, great martinets, but so completely Germanised
’: Hughes.

305 ‘
actions not to be paralleled in antiquity
’: Dundas, also the following quote.

306 ‘
gave their fire and retired
’: this fascinating description of the fighting in St Lucia came in a letter from Serjeant Major Thorne of the 5th to Earl Percy, 31 July 1779,
DON
.

307 ‘
These were frenetic, suspicious days in British headquarters
’: the primary source for the early part of this chapter is
Journals and Correspondence of
General Sir Harry Calvert, Adjutant General of the forces of
HRH
the Duke
of York, Comprising the Campaigns in Flanders and Holland in 1793–4,
edited by his son Sir Harry Verney, London 1853.

308 ‘
attachment to my person, to your country
’: George to Cornwallis, 28 March 1782, in vol. V of Fortescue.

— ‘
born to be the honour and salvation
’: in Verney papers.

309 ‘
I found myself in a situation
’: ibid.

310 ‘
He found me out
’: Lamb’s remarks about his religious conversion, Burgess and some other matters are in ‘Memoir of Mr Roger Lamb’, by J. O. Bonsall,
Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine
, November 1831.

312 ‘
neither the Prussian army nor the Austrians found satisfactory tactical
answers
’: for a good discussion of the shock of the Flanders campaign, see David Gates,
The British Light Infantry Arm, c. 1790–1815
, London 1987.

314 ‘The system of David Dundas’: Cornwallis in Ross.

— ‘
means of rendering the movements of the regiments more simple
’: Cornwallis to Ross 21 January 1800, in Ross.

314
‘I am indeed to flatter myself that some steps will speedily be taken’
: Calvert’s letter of 23rd March 1798 in
TNA: PRO WO
1/619. It is not entirely clear who it is addressed to, but most probably it was the Secretary at War.

— ‘
General Howe… stepped forward
’: his letter to the Duke of York, offering his services, has the same date and is in the same file as Calvert’s above.

315 ‘
another Bunker Hill’: Money, Gen. J., To the Right Honourable William
Windham
on a Partial Reorganisation of the British Army
, London 1799.

316 ‘
Calvert had Mackenzie appointed as secretary to the Royal Military
College
’: Calvert’s role emerges in a letter of 13 March 1807 from Mackenzie to General Sir Richard Grenville (then colonel of the 23rd), Dropmore Papers,
BL, ADD MS
58897.

317 ‘
on
7
January
1809
, Lamb wrote once more to his old comrade
’: Lamb’s letter is in
TNA: PRO WO
121/93. Lamb’s scrapbook supplies earlier parts of this narrative.

318 ‘
Attachments of persons in the army to each other
’: this passage appears in Lamb’s published memoir.

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A Treatise on Courts Martial
, London 1778. An officer of the Royal Artillery, Adye was Judge Advocate in America at a crucial period.

Anderson, Lieutenant Thomas Journal of Lieutenant Thomas Anderson of the Delaware Regiment 1780–1782,
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, April 1867.

Andre, Major,
Andre, Major Andre’s journal. An authentic record of the
movements and engagements of the British Army in America from June
1777
to November 1778 as recorded from day to day by Major John Andre
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Anon.
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,
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Militair-Wochenblatt
, 18, Berlin 1833.

Anon. ‘A Contemporary British Account of General Sir William Howe’s Military Operations in 1777’,
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society
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Askham, Francis
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Revolution
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The Lost War, Letters from British
Officers during the American Revolution
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Barker, John
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Baurmeister, Adjutant General
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Bell, J.
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Bickley, Francis (ed.)
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Bland, Lieutenant General Humphrey
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,
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Boswell, James
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, ed. by Fredrick A. Pottle, London 1950. The great diarist was a cousin of James Webster of the 33rd.

Bowman, Allen
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Brown, Captain and Ensign de Berniere
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previous to, and at the Battle of Lexington
, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 2, vol. 4, 1816. An account of the reconaissance to Concord carried out by Brown, 52nd, and de Berniere of the 10th, as well as de Berniere’s hair-raising account of the action of 19 April 1775.

Buchanan, John
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Calvert, Harry
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,
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the Duke of York, Comprising the
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, ed. by his son Sir Harry Verney, London 1853.

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, London 1850.

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Regimental Records of the Royal
Welch Fusiliers
, vol. I, 1689–1815, London 1921.

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,
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Clinton, Sir Henry
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, ed. William B. Willcox, Hamden
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1971.

Coffin, Charles (ed.)
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Breed’s
Hill, by Major Generals
W
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, Portland 1835.

Cooper, Captain T. H.
The Military Cabinet
, 3 vols, London 1809.

Cornwallis, General Lord
The Correspondence of Charles, First Marquess of
Cornwallis
, ed. Charles Derek Ross, London 1859.

Cresswell, Nicholas
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774–1777
, New York 1924.

Cunningham, Peter (ed.)
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, London 1891.

Curtis, Edward E.
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, Yale 1926.

Cuthbertson, Bennet
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Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infantry
, Dublin 1768. As one-time adjutant of the 5th Foot, Cuthbertson’s book was widely read in the army.

Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel
William
Tacticks
, Dublin 1782.

Dann, John C. (ed.)
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War for Independence
, London 1980.

De Fonblanque, Edward Barrington
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Digby, Lieutenant William
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Campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne with the Journal of Lieut
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Dohla, Johann Conrad
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OK
1990.

Donkin, Robert
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petite guerre
as it should be applied in America.

Downman, Francis
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Drake, Samuel Adams
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Duer, William Alexander
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Dundas, Sir David
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Enys, Lieutenant John
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NY
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Evelyn, W. Glanville
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ed. G. D. Scull, Oxford 1879. A Tory enthusiast for the war, Evelyn served in the 4th Light Company until killed in action just after the fall of New York.

Ewald, Johann von
Diary of the American War: a Hessian Journal
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Field, Thomas W.
The Battle of Long Island
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Fischer, David Hackett,
Washington’s Crossing
, Oxford 2004.

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The Writings of George Washington
, 39 vols, Washington, 1931–34.

Force, Peter
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Foreman, Amanda
Georgiana
, Duchess of Devonshire
, London 1998.

Fortescue, Hon. Sir John (ed.)
The Correspondence of King George the Third
,
From 1760 to 1783
, 6 vols, London 1928.

Fortescue, Sir John
A History of the British Army
, 13 vols, London 1899–1930.

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Journal for the Society of Army Historical
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, vol. 68, 1990. Fox served as a corporal in the 47th during the Saratoga campaign and then endured long captivity; his narrative is in note form, not easily followed but important nevertheless.

French, Allen
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, Boston 1925.

French, Allen
The First Years of the American Revolution
, New York 1934.

Gates, David
The British Light Infantry Arm, c. 1790–1815
, London 1987.

Garden,
Alexander Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War in America
, Charleston 1822.

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Navies and the American Revolution 1775–1783
, London 1996.

Glover, Richard
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1795–1809, Cambridge 1963.

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Memoir of General Graham, With Notices of the
Campaigns in Which he was Engaged from 1779 to 1801
, Edinburgh 1862.

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of American History
, vol. 4 (January–March 1910).

Grant, Alistair Macpherson
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, London [1930].

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Nathaniel Greene
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Hadden, Lieutenant James M.
A Journal Kept in Canada and Upon Burgoyne’s
Campaign
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Hagist, Don
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Revolution
, Baraboo
WI
2004.

Hamilton, Alexander
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Hanger, George
The Life, Adventures and Opinions of Col George Hanger, written
by Himself
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Hargreaves, Reginald
The
Bloodybacks
; the British Serviceman in North
America and the Caribbean 1655–1783
, London 1968.

Harvey, Edward
A New Manual and the Platoon Exercise: With an
Explanation
, London 1764.

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Henley, David
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Major General Heath, Commanding the American Troops for the Northern
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of Ill Treatment of the British Soldiers &c
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Hughes, Thomas
A Journal by Thos Hughes, For his Amusement, and Designed
only for his Perusal by the time he attains the Age of 50 if he lives so long
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Hunter, A.
The Journal of Gen. Sir Martin Hunter
, Edinburgh 1894. This provides an excellent insight into the 52nd Light Company (2nd LI battalion), notably during the 1777 campaign.