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Re: OOB Ireland: end of 1798 - early 1799.

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OOB Ireland 1798-99:

Cavalry:

4th Dragoon Guards:
Cannon. The Fourth; or, Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards, containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 - and of its subsequent services to 1838. 1839, pp. 37-43

5th Dragoon Guards:
Cannon. Historical record of the Fifth, or Princess Charlotte of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards - containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, with its subsequent services to 1838. 1839, pp. 46-48

6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabineers):
Cannon. Historical record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers. 1839, pp. 78-80

7th Dragoon Guards: “The Regiment was in Ireland when the Irish rebelled in 1798, as were consequently heavily engaged in policing duties throughout the rebellion.” : https://archive.org/details/cihm_48377 See pp.57-60.

5th Dragoons
Raymond Birt. XXII Dragoons 1760–1945: The Story of a Regiment. 1950. 349 p.

9th Dragoons
Cannon. Historical Record of the Ninth, or Royal Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lancers. 1841, pp. 24-29

22nd Light Dragoons:
“On 24 February 1794, William, Viscount Feilding raised the next regiment to use the title 22nd (Light) Dragoons; this regiment lasted slightly longer, being disbanded in 1802 with the onset of peace.”
Birt. XXII Dragoons, 1760-1945 the story of a regiment. 1950. 349 p.

23rd Light Dragoons:
“It was re-raised in 1794 by Colonel William Fullarton but disbanded a short time later in 1802.”

24th Light Dragoons:
“1794 – 1802. Raised by William Loftus. An Irish Regiment with a regimental motto of ‘Death or Glory” Disbanded 1802.“

Hompesch's Rifle Men [Hompesch's Dragoons 1798-1802]:
"HOMPESCH CHASSEURS WERE CUTTING EDGE UNIT IN THE BRITISH ARMY:
When formed by Baron von Hompesch and attached to the Duke of York's army during the War of the First Coalition, Hompesch's Chasseurs were put under the command of a Polish-born emigré officer who also commanded the Baron's Hussars:Francis de Rottenburg. Rottenburg was a cutting-edge thinker on light infantry tactics, and authored the first book on the subject.
De Rottenburg was raised in what is now Gdañsk in Poland. He spent almost a decade in the French army which came to an end with the French Revolution. In December 1795, de Rottenburg joined the British army, serving in Hompesch's Hussars, a unit of foreign-born troops. In 1794 he helped to establish Hompesch's Light Infantry (Chasseurs), which later became part of the 5th Battalion of the 60th Regiment of Foot, the first rifle-armed unit of the British Army. De Rottenburg rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the unit, and commanded it during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the capture of Suriname in 1799…" :
https://flintlockandtomahawk.blogspot.com/2015/08/hompesch-chasseurs.html
Hompesch's Regiment of Mounted Riflemen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hompesch%27s_Regiment_of_Mounted_Riflemen
British; Émigré and Foreign Troops,Corsican Rangers, Watteville's Regt, Roll's Regt and Hompesch's Mounted Rifles, Egypt, 1801:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/01/b9/dd/01b9dd7974c48c1422a5282349d15254.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/5b/26/385b26e1acb4cdefe80ac03e727ae485.jpg
“De Rottenburg actually was on leave for most of the rebellion and missed all the 5/60th's battles. Major George Lewis de Verna was in command until 20 July when de Rottenburg first arrived in Ireland.”

First Fencible Dragoons [Fencible Cavalry in Ireland]
Lord Roden's Roxborough Fencible Cavalry.
Robert Jocelyn 2nd Earl of Roden, 3rd Baron Newport, 6th Baronet of Hyde Hall (1756–1820):
https://www.sbwhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2nd-earl.pdf
Lord Roden, raised the 1st Fencible Light Dragoons in the town of Dundalk, which was later to become known as Lord Roden’s Fox-hunters. This regiment was placed on the Irish Establishment on 21st July.1794, and disbanded 7th October, 1800. :
http://irishfreemasonry.com/blog/?p=2254
The 1st Fencible Dragoons were formed in 1794 and disbanded in 1800. ... Alternatives names were 1st Fencible Cavalry/Dragoons/Light Dragoons.

Second Fencible Dragoons [Fencible Cavalry in Ireland]

Ancient British Regiment

Berwichshire [Fencible] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Fencible_Cavalry

Cambridgeshire [Fencible]

Dumfrieshire [Fencible]

Laneashire [Lanarkshire?]] Lanark & Dumbarton

Lothian (Mid ) [Fencible]

New Romney (or Duke of Wales’ own) [Fencible]

Princess of Wales [Fencible]

Roxborough [Fencible]

Loyal Essex Regiment of Fencible Cavalry: “In 1797 when the French landed in Ireland, the Regiment moved to Ayr and were ferried to Ireland although the French had surrendered before the Regiment has reached the British Army lines.
They remained in Ireland until 1799 when they were disbanded no doubt to make way for the new provisional Cavalry.” : http://www.essexregiment.co.uk/cavfen.html
“In 1794 six troops of the 'Loyal Essex Regiment of Fencible Cavalry' (later to be renamed 'The Essex Light Dragoons') were formed from the Harlow area against threats of a French invasion with landings on the Essex coast.”
In October the 'Loyal Essex Fencible Infantry', ten companies strong, were raised by Major J. E. Urquhart, and served in .... : Robert George Ernest Wood, 1937- , Essex and the French wars, 1793-1815. Essex CRO Publications no. 70, 1977 - Great Britain - 1 portfolio ([8] p., [40] leaves of plates : ill.) ; 31 cm.

Infantry:

1st Foot Guards (3rd Bat.): “In 1798 the 1st battalion, having recruited its numbers, proceeded from Great Britain to Ireland.” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49570/49570-h/49570-h.htm https://archive.org/stream/historicalreco00cann See p. 163. Also: https://archive.org/details/originhistoryfi01hamigoog/page/n410

Coldstream (1st Bat.)
For Ireland 1798: https://archive.org/details/originandservic00mackgoog/page/n91

3rd Foot Guards (Detachment)
Maurice. The History of the Scots Guards: From the Creation of the Regiment to the Eve of the Great War. 2 vols. 1934. xxii, 410; xi, 394p., 49 leaves of plates (some fold.): ill. (some col.), facsims., frontis., maps, ports. :

1st Regiment (1st Bat.): “The [1st] battalion remained in Saint Domingo until May, 1797, when it returned to England a mere skeleton, and was ordered to North Britain to recruit. After serving in Ireland and Scotland, it again proceeded to the West Indies in 1801.” Page 73 of: Wetherall. An historical account of his majesty's First, or the royal regiment of foot. 1832. 225 p. : https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006866259
Reprint 2018.

2nd Regiment (1st Bat.):
Ireland 1798 starts at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070524528&view=1up&seq=403 to p. 323.
Davis. The history of the Second, Queen's royal regiment, now the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Vol. 3: 1715-1799.
Cannon. Historical record of The Second, or, Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot. 1839. pp. 46-47

6th Regiment (1st Bat.):
Cannon. Historical record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot. 1839, pp. 74-75: https://archive.org/details/cihm_48343/page/n113
Colin Campbell, 1754-1814. 6th Regiment (Royal Warwickshire) of Foot. :
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22822/lot/33/
Bio: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Campbell,_Colin_(1754-1814)_(DNB00)

13th Regiment (1st Bat.)
Cannon. Historical record of the Thirteenth, First Somerset, or the Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry. 1848, pp. 45-46

29th Regiment (1st Bat.):
Everard. History of Thos. Farrington's Regiment Subsequently Designated the 29th (Worcestershire) Foot, 1694 to 1891. 1891, pp. 222-232

30th Regiment (1st Bat.)
Historical Records of the XXX Regiment. 1887. :
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006971968
Does not appear to be in Ireland in 1798.
Bannatyne. History of the Thirtieth Regiment, now the First Battalion East Lancashire Regiment 1689-1881. 1923, pp.: http://www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk/histories-of-the-east-lancashire-regiment/

41st Regiment (1st Bat.):
Lomax. A History of the Services of the 41st (the Welch) Regiment, (now 1st Battalion the Welch Regiment) from Its Formation, in 1719, to 1895. 1899. 407 p. : https://books.google.com/books?id=ngIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41

54th Regiment (1st Bat.):
“In 1797, the 54th proceeded to Ireland, occupying Birr during the troubles of 1798. Happily, the discipline of the Regiment saved it from the disgraceful proceedings of part of the garrison of Ireland in these wild and wretched times, when "soldiers designated by Sir Ralph Abercrombie as formidable to everybody but the enemy, were allowed to perpetrate horrible outrages with impunity." In 1799, quarters were successively occupied at Nenagh, Eoscrea, and Limerick. In the spring of 1800 the Regiment was ordered to Winchester; but before leaving Ireland it had obtained so many Volunteers from the Irish Regiments of Militia, especially those of Antrim, Carlow, Clare, Limerick, Louth, Mayo and Rosscommon, that a second battalion was ordered to be formed.”

60th Regiment (5th Bat.)
A regimental chronicle and list of officers of the 60th, or the King's, royal rifle corps. 1879, pp. 3, 14, 23, 37-38, 47, 129-134
“Four companies of the 5/60th (well 3 and a cadre - 327 effective rank & file) landed at Cobh on 20 April from the Medusa and Ulysses transports, along with the Hompesch Mounted Riflemen (358 effectives). The rest of the 5/60th had been formed on Barbados and the companies that landed in Ireland came from the Homspesch Chasseurs who had been on the Isle of Wight. The 5/60th went to Wexford and fought at Goff's Bridge, Lacken Hill and Vinegar Hill.”
5th Battn. 60th Regt. : http://5th60thrifles.co.uk/?page_id=259

68th Regiment (1st Bat.):
Vane. The Durham Light Infantry, the United Red and White Rose. 1914. xi, 334 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. : See:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011430827&view=1up&seq=50

100th Regiment (1st Bat.):
"The regiment was raised in Aberdeenshire by General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon as the 100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 10 February 1794. It embarked for Gibraltar in September 1794 and then moved on to Corsica in June 1795.From Corsica a detachment was sent to Elba in August 1796 and the whole regiment returned to Gibraltar in September 1796. The regiment returned to England in March 1798 but was then deployed to Ireland in May 1798 to help suppress the Irish Rebellion. The regiment was re-ranked as the 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in October 1798." : https://www.92ndregiment.eu/
Gardyne. The Life of a Regiment, the History of the Gordon Highlanders. 2 vols. 1901-1903. :
Vol. 1 1794-1815: https://archive.org/details/lifearegimenthi01gardgoog
Vol. 2 1816-1898: https://archive.org/details/lifearegimenthi00gardgoog

Corps of Invalids in Ireland

Royal British Artillery:
Duncan, Major Francis. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Vol II (1784-1815). 1879. 528 p. See pp. 75-87. : https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalre02duncuoft
Brigadier-General Paul A. Pakenham. GUNNER JAMES MAGEE, Defender of Values – The Artillery Corps – Óglaigh na hÉireann. September 2018 :
http://artilleryclub.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Gunner-Magee-Defender-of-Arty-Corps-Value
s-V-25-Sep-18-1.pdf

Bibliography:

List of British fencible regiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_fencible_regiments

FENCIBLE LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1794 to 1800. : https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Notes_and_Queries_-_Series_2_-_Volume_12.djvu/375

List of British fencible regiments explained. : http://everything.explained.today/List_of_British_fencible_regiments/

Ron McGuigan, Fencible Cavalry Regiments (of Light Dragoons) 1794–1799 at Napoleon Series: http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/fencibles/c_fencibles1.html

White. A bibliography of regimental histories of the British Army. 1992. viii, 331 p.

Steve Brown’s articles on the Napoleon Series has locations for many of the British Regular units for 1798.

British Artillery Companies and the Men Who Lead Them 1793-1815

British Cavalry Regiments and the Men Who Lead Them 1793-1815

British Infantry Regiments and the Men Who Lead Them 1793-1815

Farmer. The regimental records of the British Army: a historical resume chronologically
arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc. 1901. :
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001588966

The monthly army list corrected to 1 March 1799 records the location/station of the army units. It also includes the military staff for Ireland.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=YLpTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA45

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