Historical Record of the Sixteenth Or the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot
Historical Record of the Sixteenth Or the Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot
Richard Cannon
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1802 At the conclusion of the peace of Amiens in 1802, the limited service men were discharged ; and the regiment was completed from disbanded fencible and militia corps. 1803 War was resumed in 1803; and Lieut. -Colonel Fancourt having been removed to the Thirty-fourth regiment, the command of the SIXTEENTH devolved on Brevet Lieut. -Colonel Skinner. 1804 On the 7th of January, 1804, the regiment embarked from Monkstown, for the West Indies, and arrived at Barbadoes on the 26th of March. It wa...s immediately ordered to hold itself in readiness to proceed with the expedition under Major-Gencral Sir Charles Green and Commodore Samuel Hood, against the Dutch colony of THE BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. 27 Surinam, in Guiana, in South America. This colony was 1804 ceded to the Dutch, by King Charles II. , in exchange for New York, in North America ; it was captured by the British in 1799, and restored at the peace of Amiens in 1802. On the 7th of April, 1804, the expedition sailed from Barbadoes, and a landing was effected on the 26th of that month ; the SIXTEENTH were actively employed in operations, until the surrender of the colony on the 4th of May.
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