Note 2 — Front matter
Reading edition
The 79th, or Draper's Regiment, lost in this siege, and encounters before it, thirty-four officers, whose names were inscribed on a beautiful cenotaph, erected on Clifton Downs by Colonel Sir W. Draper and which he dedicated as,
"Sacred to the Memory of those departed Warriors, Of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, By whose Valour, Discipline, and Perseverance The French land Forces in Asia were first withstood and repulsed."