The History of the First West India Regiment

Coke; Bryan Edwards says the 8th.

17

Coke.

18

See next chapter.

19

In the Account of the Extraordinary Expenditure of the Army, from 25th December, 1795, to 6th December, 1796, is the following:

20

"The military force in St. Vincent consists at present of a regiment of infantry and a company of artillery, sent from England; and a black corps raised in the country, but provided for, with the former, on the British Establishment, and receiving no additional pay from the island." – Bryan Edwards, vol. i. p. 428.

21

The Army List for 1795 is dated January 1st.

22

Bryan Edwards.

23

Lowenstein's Rangers were Europeans. They were afterwards drafted into the 60th.

24

Return of killed, wounded, and missing, in the attack made on the enemy's batteries, May 3rd, 1796. Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm's Rangers: 3 rank and file, killed; 2 rank and file, wounded; 2 captains, 1 lieutenant, 7 rank and file, missing. Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm dead of his wounds. The names of the officers of Malcolm's returned missing, not known.

25

Raised in 1796. This corps became the 12th West India Regiment in 1799.

26

Bryan Edwards.

27

Bryan Edwards.

28

It is true that the 8th West India Regiment mutinied at Dominica, in 1802, but it was under conditions which, to a certain extent, extenuated it. For more than six months the men had been defrauded of their pay. Being utterly uneducated and all new negroes, they were ignorant of the proper methods of obtaining redress, and consequently showed their resentment by violence.

29

This does not appear in Brigadier-General Prevost's letter, but is mentioned in that of General La Grange.

30

"During a continued march of four days, through an exceedingly difficult country, that brave officer (Captain O'Connell) did not leave behind even one of his wounded men." – Bryan Edwards.

31

A summons to surrender.

32

A refusal.

33

See map of Guadaloupe.

34

Major Nathaniel Blackwell, 1st West India Regiment, was, by the Gazette of May 24th, 1808, promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of the 4th West India Regiment, for his services at the reduction of the Danish West India Islands. At this time he had not yet joined his new corps.

35

This island had been restored to France by the Treaty of Amiens.

36

The grenadier company of the 1st West India Regiment lost 1 rank and file, killed; 1 drummer, 18 rank and file, wounded; 1 subaltern, missing.

37

"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans," by an Officer.

38

According to Major-General Lambert's despatch to Earl Bathurst, the 5th West India Regiment was to cross the river with Colonel Thornton.

39

This officer was afterwards dismissed the service.

40

The British force employed in this expedition has been thus estimated:

Out of the ten officers who accompanied the regiment on this ill-fated expedition one was killed, two died from exposure, and five were wounded.