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45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot

October 22, 2023

The 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1741. The regiment saw action during Father Le Loutre's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War as well as the Peninsular War, the First Anglo-Burmese War and the Xhosa Wars. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in 1881.

45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
Badge of the 45th Regiment of Foot
Active1741–1881
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1741–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)
Branch British Army
TypeLine Infantry
RoleInfantry
SizeOne battalion (two battalions 1804–1814)
Garrison/HQGlen Parva Barracks, Leicestershire
Nickname(s)"Old Stubborns"
EngagementsFather Le Loutre's War
French and Indian War
American Revolutionary War
Peninsular War
First Anglo-Burmese War
Xhosa Wars

History Edit

Warburton's Regiment Edit

 
Warburton's (45th) Regiment's Camp, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1750

Prior to 1751, the Regiment was named after Colonel Hugh Warburton. The regiment was originally raised by Colonel Daniel Houghton as Houghton's Regiment in 1741 for service during the War of the Austrian Succession.[1] It was first posted to Gibraltar in 1745, before moving to Nova Scotia in 1747 for garrison duty under the command of Warburton. The regiment was ranked as the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1747 but was re-ranked the following year as the 45th Regiment of Foot in 1748. On 1 July 1751 the regiment officially adopted the numerical system rather being named after the commander.[1][2] The regiment fell victim to a raid on Dartmouth in May 1751 during Father Le Loutre's War when French monarchist (natives and Acadians) from Chignecto, under the command of Acadian Joseph Broussard, raided Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, destroying the town, killing twenty British villagers and torturing and mutilating a sergeant from the 45th Foot.[3] The regiment then defeated the French monarchists (French soldiers, natives and Acadians) at the Battle of Fort Beauséjour in June 1755.[4] The regiment also took part in the Siege of Louisbourg in July 1758 during the French and Indian War.[5]

The regiment also saw action in North America during the American War of Independence, fighting at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776[6] before returning to England in 1778.[7] In 1779 the citizens of Nottinghamshire petitioned for the regiment to have the county name included in the regimental name:[8] this was granted and the regiment became the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment.[1] In March 1786 the regiment embarked for the West Indies[9] and garrisoned Martinique, Dominica and Îles des Saintes during the French Revolutionary Wars.[10] In May 1801, on the home journey, some 150 French prisoners aboard the ship, the Windsor, overpowered the guard, locked the officers in their cabins and took possession of the ship.[11]

Notable soldiers Edit

Gallery Edit

Napoleonic wars Edit

In spring 1807 the regiment embarked on the disastrous British invasion of the River Plate:[16] it saw action at the Second Battle of Buenos Aires in July 1807 but, in the face of defeat, discipline collapsed and eleven men of the regiment completely disappeared.[17] However another unit of the regiment successfully charged the enemy, taking two howitzers and many prisoners.[18]

 
The Battle of Talavera, where the regiment won the nickname "Old Stubborns" in July 1809, by William Heath

The regiment embarked for Portugal in July 1808 to serve under General Sir Arthur Wellesley in the Peninsular War.[19] The regiment fought at the Battle of Roliça in August 1808,[20] the Battle of Vimeiro later that month[21] and the Battle of Talavera, where it won the nickname "Old Stubborns", in July 1809.[22] The regiment went on to fight at the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810[23] before falling back to the Lines of Torres Vedras.[24] It saw action again at Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811,[25] the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812[26] and the Siege of Badajoz in March 1812[27] before fighting at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812[28] and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813.[29] It then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of the Pyrenees in July 1813,[30] the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813[31] and the Battle of Orthez in February 1814[32] as well as the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814.[33] The regiment returned home in June 1814.[34]

The regiment was sent to Ceylon in January 1819[35] and to Burma in 1824 for service in the First Anglo-Burmese War.[36] It formed part of an army which advanced up the River Irrawaddy to the Kingdom of Ava[37] and then returned to England in March 1838.[38]

The Victorian era Edit

 
Soldiers of the 45th Regiment fire upon John Tom (who styled himself "Sir William Courtenay") and his followers after they had killed Lieutenant Bennett, 1838

In May 1838 the regiment took part in the Battle of Bossenden Wood, a skirmish between a small group of labourers from the Hernhill, Dunkirk, and Boughton area and a detachment of soldiers of the 45th regiment sent from Canterbury to arrest the marchers' leader, the self-styled Sir William Courtenay, who was actually John Nichols Tom, a Truro maltster who had spent four years in Kent County Lunatic Asylum.[39]

In November 1839 the regiment was involved in suppressing the Newport Rising which had been organised by Chartist protestors.[40]

The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1843 and saw action in the Seventh Xhosa War in 1846[41] and the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851[42] before returning home in 1859.[43] In 1866, the regiment became the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot.[1] It took part in the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1867.[44]

As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 45th was linked with the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot), and assigned to district no. 27 at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire.[45] On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment to form the Sherwood Foresters.[1]

Battle honours Edit

The regiment's battle honours were as follows:[1]

Colonels of the Regiment Edit

Colonels of the regiment were:[1]

  • 1741–1745: Brig-Gen. Daniel Houghton

45th Regiment of Foot – (1751) Edit

45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot Edit

45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot Edit

  • 1866–1868: Gen. Thomas Armstrong Drought
  • 1868–1876: Gen. Frederick Horn, GCB
  • 1876–1878: Lt-Gen. Henry Cooper
  • 1878–1881: Gen. Sir Daniel Lysons, GCB

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g . regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  2. ^ History of the 45th 1st Nottinghamshire regiment Sherwood foresters By Philip Hugh Dalbiac, p.7
  3. ^ Wilson, p. 16
  4. ^ Dalbiac, p. 8
  5. ^ Dalbiac, p. 9
  6. ^ Dalbiac, p. 11
  7. ^ Dalbiac, p. 12
  8. ^ Dalbiac, p. 13
  9. ^ Dalbiac, p. 14
  10. ^ Dalbiac, p. 18
  11. ^ Dalbiac, p. 19
  12. ^ "Winckworth Tonge". Hants County History. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  13. ^ Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia p.627
  14. ^ "Patrick Sutherland". Canadian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  15. ^ Dunlap, William (1840). "History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York, to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". p. 39.
  16. ^ Dalbiac, p. 22
  17. ^ Hughes, p. 212
  18. ^ Dalbiac, p. 45
  19. ^ Dalbiac, p. 48
  20. ^ Dalbiac, p. 52
  21. ^ Dalbiac, p. 53
  22. ^ Dalbiac, p. 62
  23. ^ Dalbiac, p. 61
  24. ^ Dalbiac, p. 76
  25. ^ Dalbiac, p. 79
  26. ^ Dalbiac, p. 87
  27. ^ Dalbiac, p. 93
  28. ^ Dalbiac, p. 103
  29. ^ Dalbiac, p. 111
  30. ^ Dalbiac, p. 117
  31. ^ Dalbiac, p. 119
  32. ^ Dalbiac, p. 125
  33. ^ Dalbiac, p. 127
  34. ^ Dalbiac, p. 129
  35. ^ Dalbiac, p. 132
  36. ^ Dalbiac, p. 133
  37. ^ Dalbiac, p. 135
  38. ^ Dalbiac, p. 140
  39. ^ Dalbiac, p. 143
  40. ^ "45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot". National Army Museum. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  41. ^ Dalbiac, p. 152
  42. ^ Dalbiac, p. 189
  43. ^ Dalbiac, p. 208
  44. ^ Dalbiac, p. 214
  45. ^ . Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 February 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2016.

Sources Edit

  • Dalbiac, Philip Hugh (1902). History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters). BiblioBazaar, LLC. ISBN 978-1-103-37521-9.
  • Hughes, Ben (2013). The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806–1807: How the Redcoats were Humbled and a Nation was Born. Praetorian Press. ISBN 978-1781590669.
  • Smith, Steve (2005). Wellington's Redjackets: The 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula, 1805–14. Barnsley: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-47-385175-7.
  • Wilson, John (1751). A genuine narrative of the transactions in Nova Scotia since the settlement June 1749 until 5 August 1751. A Henderson & others.

Further reading Edit

  • Wickes, H L (1974). Regiments of Foot. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-220-1.
  • Beckett, Ian FW (2003). Discovering English County Regiments. Osprey Publishing. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0-7478-0506-9.

External links Edit

  • Frank Burton 45th Regiment of Foot

October 22, 2023
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The 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment raised in 1741 The regiment saw action during Father Le Loutre s War the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War as well as the Peninsular War the First Anglo Burmese War and the Xhosa Wars Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 95th Derbyshire Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment in 1881 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of FootBadge of the 45th Regiment of FootActive1741 1881Country Kingdom of Great Britain 1741 1800 United Kingdom 1801 1881 Branch British ArmyTypeLine InfantryRoleInfantrySizeOne battalion two battalions 1804 1814 Garrison HQGlen Parva Barracks LeicestershireNickname s Old Stubborns EngagementsFather Le Loutre s WarFrench and Indian WarAmerican Revolutionary WarPeninsular WarFirst Anglo Burmese WarXhosa Wars Contents 1 History 1 1 Warburton s Regiment 1 1 1 Notable soldiers 1 1 2 Gallery 1 2 Napoleonic wars 1 3 The Victorian era 2 Battle honours 3 Colonels of the Regiment 3 1 45th Regiment of Foot 1751 3 2 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment of Foot 3 3 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot 4 References 5 Sources 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory EditWarburton s Regiment Edit nbsp Warburton s 45th Regiment s Camp Halifax Nova Scotia 1750Prior to 1751 the Regiment was named after Colonel Hugh Warburton The regiment was originally raised by Colonel Daniel Houghton as Houghton s Regiment in 1741 for service during the War of the Austrian Succession 1 It was first posted to Gibraltar in 1745 before moving to Nova Scotia in 1747 for garrison duty under the command of Warburton The regiment was ranked as the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1747 but was re ranked the following year as the 45th Regiment of Foot in 1748 On 1 July 1751 the regiment officially adopted the numerical system rather being named after the commander 1 2 The regiment fell victim to a raid on Dartmouth in May 1751 during Father Le Loutre s War when French monarchist natives and Acadians from Chignecto under the command of Acadian Joseph Broussard raided Dartmouth Nova Scotia destroying the town killing twenty British villagers and torturing and mutilating a sergeant from the 45th Foot 3 The regiment then defeated the French monarchists French soldiers natives and Acadians at the Battle of Fort Beausejour in June 1755 4 The regiment also took part in the Siege of Louisbourg in July 1758 during the French and Indian War 5 The regiment also saw action in North America during the American War of Independence fighting at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 6 before returning to England in 1778 7 In 1779 the citizens of Nottinghamshire petitioned for the regiment to have the county name included in the regimental name 8 this was granted and the regiment became the 45th 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment 1 In March 1786 the regiment embarked for the West Indies 9 and garrisoned Martinique Dominica and Iles des Saintes during the French Revolutionary Wars 10 In May 1801 on the home journey some 150 French prisoners aboard the ship the Windsor overpowered the guard locked the officers in their cabins and took possession of the ship 11 Notable soldiers Edit Winckworth Tonge 12 Horatio Gates 13 Patrick Sutherland 14 Gallery Edit nbsp Winckworth Tonge Old Burying Ground Halifax Nova Scotia nbsp Soldier of 45th regiment 1742 nbsp A grenadier of the 45th Regiment right 1751 by David Morier nbsp Horatio Gates 15 Napoleonic wars Edit In spring 1807 the regiment embarked on the disastrous British invasion of the River Plate 16 it saw action at the Second Battle of Buenos Aires in July 1807 but in the face of defeat discipline collapsed and eleven men of the regiment completely disappeared 17 However another unit of the regiment successfully charged the enemy taking two howitzers and many prisoners 18 nbsp The Battle of Talavera where the regiment won the nickname Old Stubborns in July 1809 by William HeathThe regiment embarked for Portugal in July 1808 to serve under General Sir Arthur Wellesley in the Peninsular War 19 The regiment fought at the Battle of Rolica in August 1808 20 the Battle of Vimeiro later that month 21 and the Battle of Talavera where it won the nickname Old Stubborns in July 1809 22 The regiment went on to fight at the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810 23 before falling back to the Lines of Torres Vedras 24 It saw action again at Battle of Fuentes de Onoro in May 1811 25 the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 26 and the Siege of Badajoz in March 1812 27 before fighting at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812 28 and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 29 It then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of the Pyrenees in July 1813 30 the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813 31 and the Battle of Orthez in February 1814 32 as well as the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814 33 The regiment returned home in June 1814 34 The regiment was sent to Ceylon in January 1819 35 and to Burma in 1824 for service in the First Anglo Burmese War 36 It formed part of an army which advanced up the River Irrawaddy to the Kingdom of Ava 37 and then returned to England in March 1838 38 The Victorian era Edit nbsp Soldiers of the 45th Regiment fire upon John Tom who styled himself Sir William Courtenay and his followers after they had killed Lieutenant Bennett 1838In May 1838 the regiment took part in the Battle of Bossenden Wood a skirmish between a small group of labourers from the Hernhill Dunkirk and Boughton area and a detachment of soldiers of the 45th regiment sent from Canterbury to arrest the marchers leader the self styled Sir William Courtenay who was actually John Nichols Tom a Truro maltster who had spent four years in Kent County Lunatic Asylum 39 In November 1839 the regiment was involved in suppressing the Newport Rising which had been organised by Chartist protestors 40 The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1843 and saw action in the Seventh Xhosa War in 1846 41 and the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 42 before returning home in 1859 43 In 1866 the regiment became the 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot 1 It took part in the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1867 44 As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s where single battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom the 45th was linked with the 17th Leicestershire Regiment of Foot and assigned to district no 27 at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire 45 On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 95th Derbyshire Regiment to form the Sherwood Foresters 1 Battle honours EditThe regiment s battle honours were as follows 1 Louisburg Rolica Vimiera Talavera Busaco Fuentes D Onoro Ciudad Rodrigo Badajoz Salamanca Vittoria Pyrenees Nivelle Orthes Toulouse Peninsula Ava South Africa 1846 47 Colonels of the Regiment EditColonels of the regiment were 1 1741 1745 Brig Gen Daniel Houghton45th Regiment of Foot 1751 Edit 1745 1761 Gen Hugh Warburton 1761 Maj Gen Andrew Robinson 1761 1767 Maj Gen Hon John Boscawen 1767 1784 Gen William Haviland45th Nottinghamshire Regiment of Foot Edit 1784 1787 Maj Gen Sir John Wrottesley 8th Baronet 1787 1788 Lt Gen James Cuninghame 1788 1802 Gen James Whorwood Adeane 1802 1823 Gen Frederick Cavendish Lister 1823 1837 Gen Richard Lambart 7th Earl of Cavan KC 1837 1840 Lt Gen Sir William Henry Pringle GCB 1840 1847 Gen Sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean Bt 1847 1856 Gen Sir Colin Halkett GCB GCH 1856 1858 Gen Thomas Brabazon Aylmer 1858 1866 F M Sir Hugh Rose 1st Baron Strathnairn GCB GCSI45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot Edit 1866 1868 Gen Thomas Armstrong Drought 1868 1876 Gen Frederick Horn GCB 1876 1878 Lt Gen Henry Cooper 1878 1881 Gen Sir Daniel Lysons GCBReferences Edit a b c d e f g 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot regiments org Archived from the original on 10 June 2007 Retrieved 12 July 2016 History of the 45th 1st Nottinghamshire regiment Sherwood foresters By Philip Hugh Dalbiac p 7 Wilson p 16 Dalbiac p 8 Dalbiac p 9 Dalbiac p 11 Dalbiac p 12 Dalbiac p 13 Dalbiac p 14 Dalbiac p 18 Dalbiac p 19 Winckworth Tonge Hants County History 1 January 2013 Retrieved 23 May 2021 Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia p 627 Patrick Sutherland Canadian Dictionary of Biography Retrieved 25 May 2021 Dunlap William 1840 History of the New Netherlands Province of New York and State of New York to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution p 39 Dalbiac p 22 Hughes p 212 Dalbiac p 45 Dalbiac p 48 Dalbiac p 52 Dalbiac p 53 Dalbiac p 62 Dalbiac p 61 Dalbiac p 76 Dalbiac p 79 Dalbiac p 87 Dalbiac p 93 Dalbiac p 103 Dalbiac p 111 Dalbiac p 117 Dalbiac p 119 Dalbiac p 125 Dalbiac p 127 Dalbiac p 129 Dalbiac p 132 Dalbiac p 133 Dalbiac p 135 Dalbiac p 140 Dalbiac p 143 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot National Army Museum Retrieved 3 December 2020 Dalbiac p 152 Dalbiac p 189 Dalbiac p 208 Dalbiac p 214 Training Depots Regiments org Archived from the original on 10 February 2006 Retrieved 16 October 2016 Sources EditDalbiac Philip Hugh 1902 History of the 45th 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment Sherwood Foresters BiblioBazaar LLC ISBN 978 1 103 37521 9 Hughes Ben 2013 The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806 1807 How the Redcoats were Humbled and a Nation was Born Praetorian Press ISBN 978 1781590669 Smith Steve 2005 Wellington s Redjackets The 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula 1805 14 Barnsley Frontline Books ISBN 978 1 47 385175 7 Wilson John 1751 A genuine narrative of the transactions in Nova Scotia since the settlement June 1749 until 5 August 1751 A Henderson amp others Further reading EditWickes H L 1974 Regiments of Foot Osprey Publishing ISBN 0 85045 220 1 Beckett Ian FW 2003 Discovering English County Regiments Osprey Publishing pp 94 96 ISBN 978 0 7478 0506 9 External links EditFrank Burton 45th Regiment of Foot Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 45th Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Foot amp oldid 1165216327, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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