L. 593 Goff (Q. t Wet Highlanders) His- torical Records of the 91st Argyllshire High- landers, now the Isb Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent Services to 1881, with plates, 2 COLOURED, 8vo., cloth, 7s 6d 1891 HISTOEICAL EECOEDS OF THE 91sT ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS, SEEN -BY DATE DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. CONTENTS. PAGE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS ... ... ... xiii CHAPTER I. Raising of Regiment List of Officers Services at the Cape of Good Hope Return to England Guernsey Second Battalion raised Second Battalion go to Holland Bergen-op-Zoom Reduction of Second Battalion First Battalion to Hanover England Ireland ... ... 1 CHAPTER II. Peninsular War, August, 1808, to Retreat of Corunna England Walcheren Expedition England ... 27 CHAPTER III. Peninsular War, 1812, to affair at Aire, February, 1814 44 CHAPTER IV. Peninsular War Toulouse End of War England Ireland Ostend ... ... ... ... 57 vi ii CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. PAGE Waterloo Cambray Army of Occupation round Paris England Ireland ... ... ... 69 CHAPTER VI. Ireland Jamaica England Irelan d St. Helena Grahamstown, South Africa ... ... ... 78 CHAPTER VII. Detachment at St. Helena Removal of Napoleon's body Reserve Battalion formed ... ... 88 CHAPTER VIII. Wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson ... ... 100 CHAPTER IX. Kaffir War, 1846-47 Part taken therein by First Battalion ... ... ... ... ... 113 CHAPTER X. Kaffir War, 1846-47 Part taken therein by the Reserve Battalion ... ... ... ... 139 CHAPTER XI. Kaffir War, 1851-53 Reserve Battalion 173 CONTENTS. IX CHAPTER XII. PAGE " Redistribution of the Regiment The name Reserve Battalion" discontinued Depot companies' history to their absorption in 1857 ... ... ... 208 CHAPTER XIII. First Battalion England Ireland Malta Greece Ionian Islands ... ... ... ... 213 CHAPTER X1Y. India ... ... ... ... ... ... 232 CHAPTER XV. Dover Aldershot Princess Louise's Wedding Scotland Ireland ... ... ... ... 243 CHAPTER XVI. ... 259 England Natal Causes of Zulu War ... CHAPTER XVII. Zulu War, April to September, 1879 Cape Town Mauritius St. Helena Loss of Regiment's Number 273 CONTENTS. APPENDICES. MM A. COLOURS ... ... ... ... ... 299 B. DRESS ... ... ... ... ... 301 C. SUCCESSION LIST OF COLONELS ... ... 307 D. SUCCESSION LIST OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS ... 308 E. LIST OF CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES THE REGIMENT HAS TAKEN PART IN ... ... ... 309 F. LIST OF BATTLES INSCRIBED ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR ... ... ... ... ... 311 G. THE WATERLOO ROLL ... ... ... 312 H. THE REGIMENTAL RECORD BOOK ... ... 314 I. SERGEANT-MAJOR'S WALKING-STICK ... ... 315 K. TABLE SHOWING DURATION OF STAY OF THE REGIMENT IN DIFFERENT QUARTERS ... ... ... 317 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OFFICERS 319 . - , i , rZ -. FOBT AT EKOWE, MABCH, 1879. LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONS. THE COLOURS OF THE REGIMENT ... Frontispiece FOET AT EKOWE, MARCH, 1879 ... ... xi THE UNIFORM OF THE REGIMENT WHEN RAISED To face 1 DUNCAN CAMPBELL ... ... ... 2 THE CASTLE, CAPE TOWN ... ... ... 7 TOULOUSE, 1814. From an old print ... 63 DRESS OF THE REGIMENT IN 1822 ... ... 78 THE LADDER AT JAMES TOWN (TO THE FORT AT TOP OF CLIFF). From an old drawing 83 NAPOLEON'S TOMB, ST. HELENA ... ... 92 REMOVAL OF NAPOLEON'S BODY FROM ST. HELENA. Being a fac-simile reproduc- tion of a very old plate ... ... 95 MAP SHOWING SCENE OF WARS 1845-46, 1851-53 113 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE GRAHAMSTOWN, 1845 ... ... ... To face 117 THE MARQUESS OP LORNE ... ... 252 THE MARCHIONESS OP LORNE ... ... 252 EMBARKATION OF REGIMENT AT SOUTHAMPTON* 261 PORT NATAL ... ... ... ... 262 CETTWATO ... ... ... ... 267 MAP OP EAST ZULULAND ... ... ... 273 FORT PEARSON ... ... ... ... 275 RELIEF FORCE CROSSING A RIVER*... ... 277 GINGINHLOVO, 2ND APRIL, 1879. From a sketch by the Author ... ... 280 PORT DURNFORD (FROM THE ANCHORAGE)* ... 289 EMBARKATION OF CETTWATO AT PORT DURNFORD * 291 * From sketches which appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1879, reproduced by permission of the proprietors of that paper. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE CON- TENTS OF THE EECORDS OF THE XCI. HIGHLANDERS. 1794. Regiment raised and numbered 98th. 1795. Proceeded to the Cape. Assisted at the capture of Cape Town, and the rest of the Dutch possessions. 1796. Expedition to Saldanha Bay. 1798. Number of regiment changed to 91st. 1799. Quelled a mutiny of the garrison in Cape Town. 1801. The colours of the regiment altered on the occasion of the union between Great Britain and Ireland. 1802. The Cape given back to the Dutch. Part of the regiment embarked for England. 1803. Eemainder of the regiment, after delivering over the Cape, proceeded to England, leaving again in September for Guernsey. 1804. Regiment returned to England. A second battalion raised. 1805. First Battalion ordered to Hanover. 1806. First Battalion returned to England. Inspected by H.E.H. the Duke of York. Embarked for Ireland in December. 1807. Landed at Cork. Quartered at Mallow and Cashel. 1808. Quartered at Cashel, Enniscorthy, Dublin, and Bandon. Embarked for the Peninsula. Battles of Roleia and Vimiero. Retreat to Corunna. XIV CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 1809. Battle of Corunna. Return to England, leaving one company under Captain Walsh, which was engaged at Talavera. The regiment took part in the expedition to Walcheren, returning to England in December. 1810. Stationed at Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Ashford. 1812. Embarked for the Peninsula, and joined the army at Villafranca. 1 813. Battle of Vittoria. Affair at Pampeluna. Battles of Nivelle and Nive. Second Battalion went to Holland, and was present at attack on Bergen-op- Zoom. 1814. Battles of Orthes and Toulouse. Returned to Ireland in June. 1815. To Belgium. Battle of Waterloo. Affair at Cambray. March to Paris. 1816-17. Remained in France. 1818. Returned to England in November. Proceeded to Ireland in December. 1819. Quartered in Dublin. 1820. To Enniskillen. 1821. To Scotland en route for Jamaica. 1822-31. In Jamaica. 1831. To England. Stationed at Portsmouth and Ox- ford. 1832. At Bolton, Manchester, and Mullingar. 1833-34. Naas and Fermoy. 1835. To St. Helena. 1839. To Algoa Bay, leaving three companies at St. Helena. 1840. Outpost duties in Kamrland. St. Helena detach- ment took part in disinterment of the body of the Emperor Napoleon. 1841. Outpost duties in Kaffirland. 1842. Reserve Battalion formed at home and sent to the Cape. Wreck in Table Bay of the Abercrombie Robinson. St. Helena detachment rejoined head- quarters. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. XV 1843. Reserve Battalion joins First Battalion in Kaffirland. Detachments of both battalions proceed on the expedition against Tola. 1844. In detachments on Kaffir frontier. 1845. New colours presented First Battalion by Colonel Hare. 1846. Kaffir War. Block Drift. 1848. First Battalion to England. Stationed at Gosport. Reserve Battalion at Boem-plaats. 1849. Reserve Battalion at head-quarters, Grahamstown. First Battalion at Gosport. 1850. Beginning of second Kaffir War. First Battalion moved from Gosport to Dover. 1851. Second Kaffir War. Various actions. First Battalion Preston, Liverpool, Manchester to Belfast. 1852. Second Kaffir War continued. Loss of the Birken- head. First Battalion to Enniskillen. 1853. Second Kaffir War concluded. To Fort Beaufort. 1854. First Battalion to Dublin. Reserve Battalion, head- quarters, Fort Beaufort. First Battalion to Cork. Embarked for Malta in December. 1855. Reserve Battalion to England. Redistribution of the regiment. First Battalion to Greece. 1856. Kaffir War medals presented for 1846, 1847, 1850, 1851, 1852. Reserve Battalion reviewed by Queen Victoria. First Battalion to Greece. 1857. Reserve Battalion merged into First Battalion, which went from Greece to the Ionian Islands. 1858. To India. A wing employed against the insurgent Rohillas. 1859-63. At Kamptee. 1863. Kamptee to Jubbulpoor. 1864. Restoration of Highland name and dress. 1866. Jnbbulpoor to Dumdum. 1867. Dumdum to Hazaareebagh. 1868. To Kamptee. To England. Quartered at Dover. 1869. New colours presented. 1870. To Aldershot. XVI CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. a detachment 1871. H.R.H. Princess Louise's marriage ; present at the ceremony. To Aberdeen and Fort George. 1873. To Edinburgh. 1874. To Newry. 1875. To the Curragh. 1876. To Enniskillen and Londonderry. 1877. To Belfast. Old colours burnt at Inverary. 1878. To Dublin. 1879. To Aldershot. Embarking for Znlu War in February. Zulu War. Battle of Ginginhlovo. Cape Town, with detachments at Mauritius and St. Helena. 1880. Head-quarters at Cape Town, with detachments as in 1879. 1881. Mauritius detachment rejoined head-quarters. Zulu medals presented. South Africa added to names on the colour. HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE 91si ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. CHAPTER I. Raising of Regiment List of Officers Service at the Cape of Good Hope Return to England Guernsey Second Battalion raised Second Battalion go to Holland Bergen-op-Zoom Reduction of Second Battalion First Battalion to Hanover England Ireland. IN the year 1794 George III. expressed a desire 1794. to the Duke of Argyll, and several other Scotch noblemen and gentlemen, to raise an Argyllshire regiment. A letter of service, dated the 10th of February, 1794, was granted, the chief terms of which were as follows : The regiment to be completed within three months. 1 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE 1794. The corps to consist of one company of grena- diers, one of light infantry, and eight battalion companies; the establishment being 1102 officers and men, not