Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge

Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry.(Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire L.I.) Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge

A Regimental history of a British Army unit, originally called the 54th, then the 43rd Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry, later incorporated into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Formed in 1741, the Regiments first action came during the War of Austrian Succession when it defended the island of Minorca. The writer gives vivid and humane accounts of regimental life in its early years - including a fearsome punishment for cowardice known as riding the horse. The 43rd were present at Wolfes great victory at Quebec, and the author gives a colourful account of the battle, and of its next engagement in the American War of