Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or, the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1845

Richard Cannon

CONTENTS. Year Page 1685 Formation of the Regiment 9 Names

GENERAL ORDERS.

PREFACE .

HISTORICAL RECORD

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.

BY COMMAND OF His late Majesty WILLIAM THE IV^TH.
and under the Patronage of
Her Majesty the Queen.

HISTORICAL RECORDS,
OF THE
British Army
Comprising the
History of every Regiment
IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE.
By Richard Cannon Esq^re.
Adjutant Generals Office, Horse Guards.
London
Printed by Authority:

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF

THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT
IN 1685,

AND OF

ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES
TO 1845.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.

LONDON:

PARKER, FURNIVALL, AND PARKER,

MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.

M.DCCC.XLV.

London:
Harrison and Co., Printers,
St. Martin's Lane.

THE FOURTEENTH,

THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

REGIMENT OF FOOT,

BEARS ON ITS REGIMENTAL COLOUR,

"TOURNAY"—"CORUNNA"—"WATERLOO"—
"JAVA"—"BHURTPORE,"

AND

THE ROYAL TIGER SUPERSCRIBED "INDIA,"

IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES ON THE
CONTINENT OF EUROPE, AND IN THE EAST INDIES.

Regimental badge

The Regiment also bears on the Caps of the Grenadiers and Drummers,
The White Horse, with the motto

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