By Mike Chappell
The forces which Wellington led in Portugal and Spain and up into southern France among 1808 and 1814 accomplished a constant list of victory possibly unrivaled within the historical past of the British military. a few forty in step with cent of this volunteer military have been Irishmen – a impressive determine, given the hot unrest and bloodshed in eire. This publication info the checklist, and illustrates the uniforms and kit, of the 2 cavalry and 3 infantry devices boasting formal Irish id: the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 18th Hussars, twenty seventh (Enniskillen), 87th (Prince of Wales's personal Irish), and 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiments of Foot.
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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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