History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) |
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45th regiment advance allies Amatola Antalo April army arrived artillery attack August Badajoz battle Beresford Bloemfontein bridge brigade British Buenos Ayres Busaco Cape Mounted Rifles Captain Parish capture cavalry centre chief Ciudad Rodrigo Colesburg colours column command corps Crauford depôt despatched detachment Dragoon drummers embarked enemy enemy's Ensign Fighting Third fire flank force Fort Beaufort Fort Cox Fort White French front frontier Fuentes d'Onoro garrison Guard guns Hare headquarters Hill infantry July Kaffirs killed King William's Town landed left wing Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant light company light division loss Magdala Major Major-General marched miles Mondego moved Natal Nive Nivelle occupied officers Orange River orders Orthéz Picton Plaza del Toros Portuguese position rank and file reached rear reserve battalion retired road Roleia route Salamanca Sandile sent sergeants Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Harry Smith Soult Talavera third division took Toulouse town troops Vimiera Vittoria Wellington whole Winburg wounded
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Page 92 - Beresford, who had again joined the army, crossed the river, drove in the enemy's posts, and invested Badajoz with the third, fourth, and light divisions, and a brigade of Hamilton's Portuguese; in all fifteen thousand men. Soult was then before...
Page 91 - The conduct of all parts of the third division, in the operations which they performed with so much gallantry and exactness on the evening of the 19th, in the dark, afford the strongest proof of the abilities of LieutenantGeneral Picton and Major-General M'Kinnon, by whom they were directed and led...
Page 102 - Very well ; observe what they are doing," was the reply. A minute or so elapsed, when the aide-de-camp said, " I think they are extending to the left.
Page 225 - England will appreciate and acknowledge your services ; on my part, as your Commander, I thank you for your devotion to your duty, and the good discipline you have maintained throughout.
Page 224 - Theodore, which poured down upon you from their lofty fortress in the full confidence of victory. " A host of many thousands have laid down their arms at your feet.
Page 32 - Whitelocke in making such an offensive and unusual demand, tending to exasperate the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, to produce and encourage a spirit of resistance to his Majesty's arms, to exclude the hope of amicable accommodation, and to increase the difficulties of the service with which he was intrusted, acted in a manner unbecoming his duty as an officer, prejudicial to military discipline, and contrary to the Articles of War.
Page 92 - M'Leod of the royal engineers, and Captain Thompson of the 74th, Lieutenant Beresford of the 88th, and Lieutenant Metcalf of the 45th, and they distinguished themselves not less in the storm of the place, than they had in the performance of their laborious duty during the siege.
Page 76 - Tyler not dead, nor dying, but wonderfully recovered from the severe wound he had received, and prepared with an excellent breakfast for Macpherson and some more of his companions, whom he had contrived to allure into a participation of the good cheer he had provided by the invitation to attend his dying moments.
Page 135 - Council feels that higher and more justly merited praise cannot be bestowed on those brave troops, than that, amidst the barbarous hosts whom they have fought and conquered, they have eminently displayed the virtues, and sustained the character, of the British soldier.
Page 72 - Douglas, in repulsing the last attempt of the enemy. Your Lordship was pleased to mention me as directing the gallant charge of the 45th and 88th regiments; but I can claim no merit whatever in the executive part of that brilliant exploit which your Lordship has so highly and so justly extolled. Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace of the 88th...