Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

(Full set of volumes in The National Army Museum Library, Chelsea, London)

 

 

Sample extract from Index on items relating to The Battle of Camden, 16 August 1780:

 

 

British Forces in North America 1744-1781, Part 3

#(part 1 in vol 16, pages 3-23)

(part 2 in Vol 19, pages 163-166)

by C T Atkinson, pages 190-192, Extracts from PRO records (CO 5/7) on Provincial Troops, including the British Legion and Volunteers of Ireland, strengths in August 1778

 

British Legion

Brief description, Vol 54, page 161

Banaston Tarleton and the …., 63, pages 127-131, illustrated

 

Camden, Battle of, 1780

Contemporary reference and notes on, Vol 20, page 132 and footnote 11

 

Clinton, Gen Sir Henry (1738-1795)

Siege of Charleston, Vol 3, page 106

Bingham’s views on, Vol 26, pages 106, 107, 108

Narrative of his campaigns reviewed, Vol 35, page 169

 

Cornwallis, General Charles, 1st Marquis

Portraits, Vol 8, page 231, illustrated; Vol 31, page 98

Possibly colonel of a regiment for longest period, Vol 7, page 261

Refuses prizemoney, Vol 12, page 234

Surrenders at Yorktown, Vol 17, pages 71-76

Letters of 1780, Vol XX page 132

 

Fraser, Brig Gen Simon (? – 1777)

Burial of, at Saratoga, Vol 48, pages 63-65, illustrated

Commands British Advanced Corps in Canada (1776-1777), Vol 63, pages 91-98

Services during Burgoyne’s 1777 campaign, and death, Vol 63, pages 164-179

 

Organisation of the British Army in The American Revolution

By Edward E Curtis, noted, Vol 6, page 112

 

Royal Artillery

In North America (1777-1781) Vol 16, pages 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22

Col Sir Alexander Dickson’s diary of Serices in N America, with maps, Vol 8, pages 79-113

 

 

 

 

Uniforms

Some Notes on American Provincial Uniforms 1776-1783, by Albert W Haarmann, Vol 49, pages 141-151 (includes notes of uniforms for British Legion, page 146, and Volunteers of Ireland, page 151)

 

Volunteers of Ireland

Brief description, Vol 54, page 165

 

 

REGIMENTS

 

33rd Foot

In North America (1775-1782) Vol 16, pages 6, 7, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; Vol 19, page 165

In American War of Independence (1777 only), Vol 8, page 231

*Conceals Colours at Yorktown, Vol 53, page 124

 

Welch Fusiliers, Royal (23rd Foot)

Voyage to New York (1773), Vol 38, pages 49-56

In North America (1774-82), Vol 7, pages 83, 86, 87, 90, 101; (1777) Vol 8 page 231; Vol 9 page 29, Vol 16 pages 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; Vol 19, pages 163, 165

*Conceals Colours at Yorktown, Vol 53, page 124

 

71st Frasers Highlanders (1775-1783)

*Colours carried in America 1775-83, Vol 53, page 124

Composition, Vol 18, page 51

Mentioned, Vol 20, page 208

In North America (1776-81), Vol 8, page 231, Vol 16 pages 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

In American War of Independence (Brandywine), Vol 8, pages 235-238, Vol 9 pages 34-35; (Germantown) Vol 9, page 33

 

 

Notes:

 

# Copied in full and enclosed with Muster Rolls

 

* Extract from article ‘British Colours in the American War of Independence’

   by James D Geddes, Volume 53, 1975, pages 123-124

 

The Colour of the 71st (Fraser’s Highlanders) Regiment (1776-1783) is in the Scottish United            Services Museum.  (located in Edinburgh Castle)

 

Two of the Regiments which surrendered at Yorktown are believed to have concealed their Colours, i.e. the 23rd Regiment (1) and the 33rd Regiment (2).  Neither of these two colours is know to exist today.

 

(1)     ‘Records of 23rd Regiment by Boughton-Mainwaring

(2)     Milne, page 112