Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment

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Cannon Richard. Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment

Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION. TO. THE INFANTRY

FOOTNOTES:

HISTORICAL RECORD —First Battalion

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HISTORICAL RECORD —Second Battalion

CONCLUSION

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SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

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Richard Cannon

Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849

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The feudal troops established by William the Conqueror consisted (as already stated in the Introduction to the Cavalry) almost entirely of horse; but when the warlike barons and knights, with their trains of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion of men appeared on foot, and, although these were of inferior degree, they proved stout-hearted Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary troops were employed, infantry always constituted a considerable portion of the military force; and this arme has since acquired, in every quarter of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the armies of any nation at any period.

The weapons carried by the infantry, during the several reigns succeeding the Conquest, were bows and arrows, half-pikes, lances, halberds, various kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour was worn on the head and body, and in course of time the practice became general for military men to be so completely cased in steel, that it was almost impossible to slay them.

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