Author: John Louis Hubert Neilson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780266845263

Excerpt from The Royal Canadian Volunteers, 1794-1802: An Historical Sketch In those days a battalion was composed of ten companies of from thirty to forty files, and in war time fifty files a Grenadier company was always placed at the right of the line, and the Light Infantry Company or Skirmishers on the left. The other companies were numbered from one to eight. The although each provided with a Grenadier and a Light Company, seem to have had but six other companies, the average strength of which was seventy men, ' giving a total strength, of rank and file, of about six hundred. The Abb Bois, in his biographical sketch of Captain Dam bourges*, page 57, says that when the Regiment was disbanded, in 1802, it had still a strength of 600 men. We presume he refers to the rst Battalion only. The same authority also states that the motto of the Regiment emblazoned on its colors was Try us. It was, however, never gtven the opportunity of being tried under fire. Its uniform was scarlet, of the contemporary infantry cut, being Royal, its facings were doubtless blue; the men wore grey cloth breeches; the officers, white, with long black gaiters buttoned to above the knee. The head dress was a three-cornered hat with black cockade - except the Grenadier Company, which wore the usual tall, conical, highly decorated grenadier cap. The officers wore a cocked hat crosswise, with the tassels over the shoulders. The Officers' swords were straight, 38 inches long, the blade ornamented with blue and gold tracings, the hilt was of ivory and gilt metal 5 it was supported by a broad buff belt slung over the right shoulder a crimson silk sash was worn around the waist and knotted to the left; the gorgeret was of gilt meta], it bore the monogram gr. And royal arms, which also decorated an oval breast-plate on the sword sling. The men were armed with the old flint lock and bayonet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.