The following are missing in the whole from the last accounts: Col. Ellison's Regiment: Lieut. Appendices A. American Brush Huts. The Americans staged a further offensive with 4,500 soldiers under General Jacob Brown, Fort Erie was their first objective. 10 July - General Prescott is captured on Prescott Farm in Rhode Island along with his batman, Fuzilier Issac Carden. We soon learned that it was Colonel Hincks, who had just returned from three months' service with the 8th Massachusetts. This signaled the end of British control of the . . The invasion of Canada by American Generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold began in mid-1775. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 8th, or King's Regiment In the Center of their Colours, the White Horse on a Red Ground within the Garter, and Crown over it. Before dawn, Wayne sent a brief dispatch telling Washington, "The fort and garrison, with Col. Johnson, are ours. One day in August we saw a military man looking over the camp. The regiment was deployed to Gibraltar in 1756 and remained there until it . After serving in 1776 as an ensign and second lieutenant in the 5th Virginia (infantry) Regiment, he was appointed a captain in the 4th Continental Light Dragoons on January 21, 1777. The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, originally raised in North America as the Royal American Regiment and also, known as the Royal Americans, were recruited from British North America, in the Seven Years' War and for Loyalist service, in American Revolutionary War.Later, ranked as the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 . [1] LEONARD KING, RWPA #S42783. In March, 1779, the Light Infantry rejoined their respective regiments. Until the widening . Suppression of the Scottish Rebellions. Ancestry.com. General Orders, 22 July 1779 General Orders Head-Quarters Moores-House [West Point] Thursday July 22d 1779. The 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot, also referred to diminutively as the 8th Foot and the King's, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1685 and retitled the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 1 July 1881. April - August 1781. The 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1741 and amalgamated into The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881.. History. ___ T718, Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858, from Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury (23 rolls). The Regiment was officially formed in 1881 when the 44th and 56th Regiments of Foot were merged as part of the Childers Reforms but it can trace its history back over 100 years prior to this date. Newcomb's Regiment of Foot, 1776 (77) Nixon's Company of Horse, 1777 (78) An American officer, who has lately given to the public some interesting recollections of the siege of Paris, remarks that the sensation of being. Lee's letter to GW of 8 July has not been found, but it likely contained intelligence and observations similar to a letter from Lee to Joseph Reed, president of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council, written at Haverstraw, N.Y., on 6 July. Hugh McGough enlisted on April 15, 1776, and within a year had . 77th Regiment - Bombay Army. BF-17-xx. BF-17-ww. He was among 79 men who enlisted as privates in Captain John Marshall's Pennsylvania Rifle Company in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in March, April and May of 1776.