A History of the Lancashire Fusiliers Formerly Xx Regiment volume 1

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A History of the Lancashire Fusiliers Formerly Xx Regiment volume 1
Benjamin Smyth
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of the regiments swollen by volunteers from militia battalions, General Bunbury says: ''If only throe months had been gained for them to know something of their oflficers and ser. I, '^cants, and the ways of the reg-iments into which they had entered, the mi-n would probably have done their duty well ; but such was not the case, and one cannot be surprised that, with the exci-ption of the XX and 40th Kovci- ments, the suddeniy-creati-d h. Illalions proved unlii lo meet a brave and 1 88 HISTORY ...OF THE XX REGIMENT.
After a brief stay at Barham Downs camp, they marched on the morning of August 25th, to Deal, where they embarked. The regiment was all on board by eleven in the morning, and sailed by three in the afternoon — no drunkenness, no ab- sentees, and no confusion.^ The two battalions ot the XX (each 774 strong) and the 63rd regiment formed the 6th brigade (Major-General, the Earl of Cavan) in the division commanded by Major- General Don. Of the embarkation at Deal, Lieu- tenant-Colonel Steevens, in his Reminiscences of My Military Life, says: "The division consisted of about four (}) thousand men, and everything was so well arranged, the boats being all ready for us on our arrival on the beach, that from the time the division stepped into the boats, it took only twenty minutes before all were on board.


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