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Transcribers Note:
Footnotes have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference.
There was a short list of corrections to certain dates provided by the printer. This version retains that table, but has made the suggested corrections.
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A HISTORY
OF THE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS .
Field Marshal H.R.H. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge K.G., G.C.B., G.C.H.,
Colonel Coldstream Guards 1805-1850.
FROM A PRINT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REGIMENT.
A
HISTORY
OF THE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
From 1815 to 1895 .
BY
LT. Col. Ross-of-Bladensburg, C.B.
LATE
Coldstream Guards .
Illustrated by
Lieut. Nevile R. Wilkinson,
Coldstream Guards.
London,
A.D. Innes & Co.
1896.
THIS HISTORY
OF
HER MAJESTY'S COLDSTREAM REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS,
FROM THE YEAR 1815 TO 1885,
IS, BY MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION,
HUMBLY DEDICATED TO
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN-EMPRESS
PREFACE.
The following pages are a continuation of Colonel MacKinnons Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards, from the victory of Waterloo down to the year 1885. They have been compiled with great care and much labour, and the reader will, I trust, feel justified in adding, with accuracy and marked ability.
The first few chapters deal with events that took place in France, after Waterloo, including the military occupation of the North-Eastern frontier by the Allies, up to the year 1818.
The period onwards to the Crimean War, although containing but few accounts of interest concerning the career of the Regiment, is valuable as continuing, to a considerable extent, the history of events in Europe so far as that is consistent with the subject of the present volume.
There is reference, nevertheless, to the part taken by the Regiment in the suppression of the Canadian rebellion.
From the date, however, of 1854, the subject assumes a different character, and is of absorbing interest to every Officer and man associated with the Coldstream Guards.
The events connected with that campaign have been carefully selected from thoroughly authentic sources; they are recorded in no spirit of vainglory or self-sufficiency, but as a true and faithful tale of the share which the Regiment took in that eventful war,illustrating, as it does, acts of gallantry, a noble and uncomplaining endurance of difficulties and hardships, and a strict performance of duty under very trying circumstances.
The accuracy of the record of the more recent Egyptian campaigns is of special value, from the fact of the author of this work having himself taken an active part in one of them.
The perusal of these records will be accompanied by the conviction which exists in the minds of all of us, that those who replace their gallant predecessors will, when their turn comes, deserve equally well of their country.
FREDK. STEPHENSON, General,
Colonel, Coldstream Guards.
1896.
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
I beg to return sincere thanks to the many members of the Coldstream Guards, past and present, who have helped me to compile the volume I now venture to issue to the public; and to assure them that, but for their assistance, it would have been far less worthy of their acceptance than even it is at the present time. It is not possible for me, in the short space at my disposal, to mention all by name to whom I am indebted in this respect. But I should fail in my duty did I not, at least, express my gratitude to General Sir Frederick Stephenson, G.C.B., and to General Hon. Sir Percy Feilding, K.C.B., for the interest they have shown in my work, and for the trouble they have taken to enable me to carry it out.
Major Vesey Dawson was indefatigable in compiling all that concerns the Nulli Secundus Club. Captain Shute prepared an Appendix on the Coldstream Hospital. Mr. Sutton spared no pains in supplying information which the Regimental Orderly Room affords; and Mr. Studd arranged materials that required considerable labour. Major Goulburn, Grenadier Guards, moreover, lent me the interesting Crimean Diary of the late Colonel Tower; and Colonel Malleson kindly looked through the proofs, and made many valuable suggestions.
I also offer my acknowledgments to Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, and to Messrs. Seeley and Co., for their courteous permission to use the maps in Mr. Kinglakes Invasion of the Crimea and in Sir E. Hamleys War in the Crimea .
Lastly, I must express the pleasure it gives me that my work is illustrated by so able and accomplished an artist as Mr. Wilkinson.
It only now remains for me to explain that as Colonel MacKinnons Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards does not contain illustrations of uniforms worn by the Regiment during the many generations of its existence, we preferred to give representations, not of the familiar figures of this century, but of those that are less known. Thus, though the following pages only describe events from the year 1815 to 1885, the plates generally refer to a more remote period of the history of the Regiment.
John Ross-of-Bladensburg ,
Lt.-Colonel.
October, 1896.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS.
PAGE
Flight of Napoleon from the field of WaterlooReaction in ParisNapoleons abdicationSurrender to Captain MaitlandProvisional Government set up in FranceAdvance of the Allies from WaterlooOperations of Marshal GrouchyAllies hope to cut the enemy off from ParisBlchers energy to secure that objectUnsuccessful efforts of the Provisional Government to obtain a suspension of hostilitiesThe Allies before ParisThe Prussians move round to the south of the cityCo-operation of WellingtonCapitulation of the capital, July 3rdAdvance of Austrians and RussiansWaterloo menThe Wellington pensionRank of Lieutenant granted to Ensigns of the Brigade of GuardsThe soldiers small account-book introduced into the British army
CHAPTER II.
MILITARY OCCUPATION OF FRANCE.
Termination of the warDifficulties of the situationThe Allies occupy ParisDissolution of the Provisional GovernmentEntry of Louis XVIII. into the capitalNew French Government formedBlcher and the Pont de JenaArrival of the Allied SovereignsReviews in FranceParis in the hands of the AlliesTreatment of the French by the Prussians; by the BritishThe wreck of the French Imperial forces disbandedLife in ParisThe Louvre stripped of its treasures of artProsecution of Imperialist leadersLabedoyre, Ney, LavalettePeace of Paris, November 20th
CHAPTER III.
OCCUPATION OF FRENCH FORTRESSES.
Organization of the Allied army of occupation, under the supreme command of the Duke of WellingtonReturn of the remainder to their respective countriesInstructions of the Allied Courts to WellingtonConvention relating to the occupation, attached to the Treaty of ParisPositions assigned to each contingent on the north-eastern frontier of FranceMarch from Paris to CambraiMilitary precautionsCamps of instruction and field exercisesReduction of the army of occupationDifficulties with the FrenchCongress of Aix-la-ChapelleEvacuation of FranceThe Guards Brigade leave Cambrai, after nearly three years' stay there, and embark at CalaisValedictory OrdersThe Coldstream sent to ChathamConclusion of military service in French territory
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