HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH, OR THE WEST ESSEX REGIMENT OF FOOT:

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF

THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT IN 1755,

AND OF

ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES TO 1844.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.

LONDON.

PARKER, FURNIVALL, AND PARKER,

MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.

M.DCCC.XLIV.

LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.

THE FIFTY-SIXTH,

OR

THE WEST ESSEX

REGIMENT OF FOOT,

BEARS ON ITS REGIMENTAL COLOURS, THE WORD

“MORO,”

TO COMMEMORATE ITS GALLANTRY AT THE CAPTURE OF THE MORO FORT, AT THE HAVANNAH, IN 1762;

ALSO THE WORD

“GIBRALTAR,”

WITH THE

CASTLE AND KEY;

AND THE MOTTO

MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE,

TO COMMEMORATE ITS DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT IN DEFENCE OF THE FORTRESS OF GIBRALTAR DURING THE YEARS 1779, 1780, 1781, AND 1782.