Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot

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Cannon Richard. Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot

Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot

Table of Contents

PLATES

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

GENERAL ORDERS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION. TO. THE INFANTRY

Footnote

HISTORICAL RECORD

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

Footnote

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Richard Cannon

Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848

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In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, ample justice has generally been done to the gallant exertions of the Corps employed; but the details of their services and of acts of individual bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the various Regiments.

These Records are now preparing for publication, under his Majesty's special authority, by Mr. Richard Cannon, Principal Clerk of the Adjutant General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot fail to be useful and interesting to military men of every rank, it is considered that they will also afford entertainment and information to the general reader, particularly to those who may have served in the Army, or who have relatives in the Service.

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