Note 15 — HISTORICAL RECORD

The brass drums and the drum-major’s staff of the French Thirty-fourth Regiment were captured on this occasion, and are now used by the British Thirty-fourth Regiment; and Serjeant Moses Simpson, the individual who actually took the staff from the drum-major of the French Thirty-fourth Regiment, is, at the period of completing this historical record, (September, 1843,) in the situation of barrack-serjeant at Northampton, and has been presented by the officers of the Thirty-fourth Regiment with a handsome medal, in commemoration of his gallant conduct.