The Napoleon Series British Infantry Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 By Steve Brown 44th Regiment of Foot Secondary Title: East Essex Regimental History, 44th Regiment of Foot 1741: Raised as James Long's Regiment of Foot 1750: Halkett's Regiment of Foot 1751: Numbered as 44th Regiment of Foot 1782: Secondary title - East Essex 1803: 9 July - 2nd Battalion formed in Ireland 1816: 25 January - 2nd Battalion disbanded at Dover 1881: 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment 1958: 3rd Battalion, East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) on amalgamation with The Bedfordshire Regiment and The Hertfordshire Regiment 1964: 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment on amalgamation with 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) and The Royal Leicesterhire Regiment 1992: 3rd Battalion disbanded Service History and Demographics, 1st Battalion 44th Regiment of Foot 1793: Ireland - Dublin; September - Kilkenny; flank companies to Barbados 1794: Flank companies at Martinique, St Lucia and Guadeloupe; battalion companies in Ireland; April - Dublin; to England; Liverpool; June - to Flanders; Ostend; Malines; Breda; Boxtel; line of the River Waal 1795: Retreat to Bremen; Bremenlee; April - to England; Harwich; Durham; Newcastle Upon Tyne; November - to Barbados; storms in English Channel 1796: February - part of battalion Barbados; April - remainder of battalion arrived; capture of St Lucia; Morne Fortunee; La Vigie 1797: West Indies; June - fit men drafted into 87th Foot; to England; July - Portsmouth; Gravesend 1798: Bury St Edmunds; May - Canterbury; October - Portsmouth; to Gibraltar 1799: Gibraltar 1800: Gibraltar; October - to Egypt; Bay of Marmorice 1801: February - EGYPT; Aboukir; Alexandria; Cairo; seige of Alexandria; October - Malta; December - to England 1802: May - Bristol; to Ireland; Waterford 1803: Wexford; New Geneva; Waterford; October - to England; Portsmouth 1804: Winchester; April - Isle of Wight; August - Shorncliff; September - Fairlight; November - Battle 1805: Battle; April - Hilsea; May - to Mediterranean; Malta 1806: Malta 1807: Malta | 11% English/Welsh, 3% Scots, 86% Irish 1808: Malta; May - flank companies to Sicily; September - battalion companies to Sicily 1809: Sicily; June - Ischia; Procida; August - Sicily; Messina; Scylla; September - detachment to Ionian Islands 1810: Messina 1811: Messina; March - Salvadore dei Greci; August - to Malta 1812: Malta; June - five companies to Sicily 1813: Malta; February - battalion reunited; May - five companies to Sicily; Minorca; to east coast of Spain; Tarragona; September - remaining five companies to Spain 1814: Tarragona; March - Villafranca; Saragossa; April - to France; Bourdeaux; June - to North America; Chesapeake; Washington; BLADENSBURG; Baltimore; to West Indies; October - Jamaica; to Louisiana 1815: New Orleans; Fort Bowyer; to Ireland; May - Cork. Service History and Demographics, 2nd Battalion 44th Regiment of Foot 1803: July - formed in Ireland from Irish Army of Reserve Act men; Kilkenny 1804: Mallow; March - to England; April - Isle of Wight; August - Sandown; October - Guernsey 1805: Guernsey 1806: Guernsey 1807: Guernsey 1808: Guernsey | 8% English/Welsh, 1% Scots, 91% Irish 1809: Guernsey; August - Alderney 1810: Alderney; March - to Cadiz; Isla de Leon; September - to Portugal; Lisbon; Lines of Torres Vedras 1811: Torres Vedras; Fort Concepcion; Barba del Puerco; Nava de Aver; Caya; Portalegre; Guarda; Villa de Rey; Oliveirinha 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo; BADAJOZ; SALAMANCA; August - Madrid; Burgos; Villa Muriel; Castellegos; December - St Martinha 1813: February - fit men into four companies, remaining six to England; into Provisional Battalion with 2/30th Foot; June - to England; July - Portsmouth; Horsham; Brighton, Steyning; November - Ramsgate; to Flanders; Tholen 1814: Antwerp; Merxcem; March - Bergen-op-Zoom - most of battalion taken POW; May - Ostend; POWs released 1815: Ostend; April - Brussels; Quatre Bras; WATERLOO; advance on Paris; Army of Occupation 1816: January - Calais; to England; Dover; March - disbanded at Dover. Page 1 of 6 Placed on The Napoleon Series December 2014 The Napoleon Series Significant Militia/Volunteer Intakes: (militia units unless noted otherwise) 1799: 2nd Surrey 1801: 1st Devonshire 1804: Received Additional Fores Act men from County Kildare, County Wicklow, County Carlow, County Westmeath, King’s County and Queens County 1807: Queen's County 1808: County Down South 1810: County Tipperary 1811: Worcestershire 1812: West Kent; Worcestershire; County Wicklow 1813: 1st Lancashire; West Kent; County Clare; County Longford Colonels Charles RAINSFORD Born: Essex 1728 Regimental Service: Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel in Coldstream Foot Guards 5 March 1761; 2nd Major in 1st Foot Guards 1763; Colonel of 44th Foot 4 May 1781 Early Service: Served at Fontenoy; served in Jacobite Rebellion; Governor of Chester 1776-1796; Governor of Gibraltar 1794-1795 Service 1793-1815: Governor of Tynemouth and Cliffords Fort 1795-1809 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel 5 August 1774; Major-General 29 August 1777; Lieutenant-General 20 November 1782; General 3 May 1796 Awards & Honours: MP 1772-1774, 1787-1788, 1790-1796 Died: London 24 May 1809. Sir Thomas TRIGGE Born: 1741 Regimental Service: Major in 12th Foot 17 November 1773; Lieutenant-Colonel 6 June 1778; Colonel of 68th Foot 25 March 1795; Colonel en Second RE 6 November 1804; Colonel of 44th Foot 27 May 1809 Early Service: Served in Germany 1759-1762; served at the Great Siege of Gibraltar; commanded ground troops at capture of Surinam 1799 and The Saints 1801 Service 1793-1815: Governor of Portsmouth 1790; Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar 1803-1804; Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance 1804-1814 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel 20 November 1782; Major-General 12 October 1793; Lieutenant-General 1 January 1798; General 25 September 1803 Awards & Honours: KB Died: London 11 January 1814. John Howard, Earl of SUFFOLK Born: 1739 Relations: Son of Captain Philip Howard, HM Marines Regimental Service: Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel in 1st Foot Guards May 1773; Colonel of 97th Foot 13 September 1782; Colonel of 70th Foot 16 August 1783; Colonel of 44th Foot 12 January 1814 Early Service: Served in North America 1779-1781 Service 1793-1815: Governor of Londonderry and Culmore 1806-1820 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel 17 November 1780; Major-General 28 September 1787; Lieutenant-General 26 January 1789; General 29 April 1802 Awards & Honours: 15th Earl of Suffolk in 1783; FRS Died: 23 January 1820. Lieutenant-Colonels William John DARBY Regimental Service: Major in 7th Foot 10 August 1780; Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 13 June 1789 Early Service: Served in American Revolution Service 1793-1815: Commanded 44th Foot 1789-1793 Retired: 26 November 1793. Robert RIDDELL Regimental Service: Major in 18th Light Dragoons 31 March 1793; Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 26 November 1793 (vice Darby) Service 1793-1815: Commanded 44th Foot 1793-1796 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel in West Indies 20 October 1796 Died: St Lucia 27 September 1796. David OGILVIE Relations: Second son of Sir William Ogilvie of Inverquharity Regimental Service: Major in 44th Foot 1794; Lieutenant-Colonel 1 September 1795 Service 1793-1815: Commanded 44th Foot 1796-1801; served in West Indies; served in Egypt, wounded at Alexandria Died: Died of wounds at Alexandria 4 April 1801. Page 2 of 6 Placed on The Napoleon Series December 2014 The Napoleon Series Charles BAILLIE Regimental Service: Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 27 August 1794; Lieutenant-Colonel in 101st Foot 22 October 1794 (on transfer from 67th Foot); on half-pay 1795; Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 18 January 1797 (vice Riddell); exchanged to Lieutenant- Colonel in 50th Foot 25 July 1798; Lieutenant-Colonel in 51st Foot 6 September 1798; Colonel of 3rd Ceylon Regiment 7 April 1804 Service 1793-1815: Served in Ceylon 1804-1810 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel 1 January 1800; Brigadier-General in Ceylon 31 July 1806; Major-General 25 April 1808 Died: 1810. Francis ERSKINE Royal Military Calendar Entry: No. 912 Regimental Service: Major in 50th Foot 1 September 1795; Lieutenant-Colonel in 96th Foot 2 January 1796; exchanged to Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 25 July 1798 (vice Baillie); exchanged to half-pay of 99th Foot 24 January 1799 Died: 7 June 1833. Christopher TILSON (CHOWNE) Royal Military Calendar Entry: No. 207 Born: Oxfordshire 1771 Relations: Took Chowne surname 14 January 1812 Regimental Service: Lieutenant-Colonel in 99th Foot 15 November 1794; to half-pay of 99th Foot; exchanged to Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 24 January 1799 (vice Erskine); Colonel of 76th Foot 17 February 1814 Service 1793-1815: Wounded in Egypt 1801; commanded brigades in Peninsula April to December 1809; commanded 2nd Division in Peninsula April to December 1812 Brevets & Staff Service: Brevet Colonel 1 January 1801; Brigadier-General in Mediterranean 25 March 25 March 1805; Major- General 25 April 1808; Lieutenant-General 4 June 1813; General 22 July 1830 Awards & Honours: LAGM (Tal) Died: London 15 July 1834. Kenneth MacKENZIE Royal Military Calendar Entry: No. 392 Born: Dundee 1754 Relations: Changed surname to Douglas in 1831 Regimental Service: Major in 90th Foot 13 May 1794; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 19 October 1798; Lieutenant-Colonel in 44th Foot 5 April 1801 (vice Ogilvie); exchanged to Lieutenant-Colonel in 52nd Foot Early Service: Served