By Ron Field
The typical picture of the accomplice military in the course of the Civil struggle is ruled by means of a constrained variety of early pictures of officials and males donning the grey and butternut linked to the CS laws and quartermaster matters. This series of books examines a wider box: the unique uniforms of the kingdom and volunteer businesses which have been introduced jointly to shape the accomplice box armies, and the continued efforts to dress troops as wear-and-tear progressively diminished the initially wide variety of uniforms. A mass of data from modern records is illustrated with infrequent photos and meticulous colour reconstructions.
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As dawn broke the following morning the light troops of both armies began to stalk each other in the mists that cloaked the slopes, and as their musketry crackled the approach of the French infantry columns could be heard. One of them, numbering more than 6,000 men, began to climb LOwards a gully where it threatened to break into the British line belween lhe Connaughl Rangers and Lbe 1/45lh. As the fog cleared the fire of the mass of light troops preceding the French column began LO inOiCl casualties in the ranks of the Connaught Rangers.
In 1804 a 2nd Bn to lhc Connaughl Rangers was raised under lhe Additional Forces Act. Col. John Alexander \tVallace, an officer who would later command me 1/88th in the Peninsula. After being stationed in Scolland and England tile ,,",h 35 2/88lh relurned LO Ireland in 1807, being slalioned in Connaughl where many recruits were obtained from lrish Militia regiments. 1809 Field-Marshal William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, from a portrait made in old age. Having commanded the Connaught Rangers.
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