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...This volume is a collection of articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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... He graduated from Harvard in 1748. On Jan. 28, 1755, he was commissioned Captain of the First Company of militia of Shrewsbury and Major in the “3rd regiment of militia in the county of Middlesex and Worcester. . . whereof Abraham Williams, Esq. is Colonel.” Early in 1758 he was commissioned Major in the regiment of Col. Wm. Williams, raised “for the general invasion of C...

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...Introduction: The Patriot Army at the Seige (sic) of Boston Chapter 1: Colonel John Glover’s Marblehead Regiment Chapter 2: Colonel William Prescott’s Regiment Chapter 3: Colonel Ephram Doolittle’s Regiment Chapter 4: Colonel Timothy Danielson’s Regiment Chapter 5: Colonel John Fellows’s Regiment Chapter 6: Colonel E...

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... a mortal. This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which ... ... in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the ... ...n had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment ... ... the room, good-naturedly tending his patient of the night before. The two officers, look- ing at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each othe... ...ounty town; or, worse still, in the East or West Indies, with a society of officers, and patronized by Mrs. Major O’Dowd! Amelia died with laughing at... ...- logue as indeed would have served to condemn a whole regi- ment of young officers. If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist m... ... consequence of the repeated visits of the aides-de-camp of the Sheriff of Middlesex, Rawdon and his wife did not go back to their lodgings at Brompto... ...of Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and assistant officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex—”One hundred and sixty-six, six and eight-pence, at the suit of M...

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... be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se, yet, rel... ... relation in the Peninsular army. Oh! yes: her only son was there. In what regiment? He was a trooper in the 23d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as ... ...3d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as she made that answer. This sublime regiment, which an Englishman should never mention without raising his hat ... ...y, I believe, not so many as one in four survived. And this, then, was the regiment—a regiment al- ready for some hours known to myself and all London... ... together. But I told her how these dear children of England, privates and officers, had leaped their horses over all obstacles as gaily as hunters to... ...our illustrations, by placing it in a separate paragraph. On a set day the officers of the army were invited by Cæsar to a banquet; it was a circumsta... ...; it was a circumstance expressly noticed in the invitation, by the proper officers of the palace, that the ban- quet was not a “coena,” but a “prandi...

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... says Mr. Pickwick, ‘appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly ex posed for sale in t... ...were imitating their example in other parts of it. The less aristo cratic officers of the 97th devoted themselves to the families of the less importa... ...nto an angle of the passage, ‘my name is Slammer, Doctor Slammer, sir—97th Regiment—Chatham Barracks—my card, Sir, my card.’ He would have added more,... ...ion to the local authorities—do not obtain the assistance of several peace officers, to take either me or Doctor Slammer, of the 97th Regiment, at pre... ...f several peace officers, to take either me or Doctor Slammer, of the 97th Regiment, at present quartered in Chatham Barracks, into custody, and thus ... ...nd review was to take place upon the lines. The manoeuvres of half a dozen regiments were to be inspected by the eagle eye of the commander in chief; ... ...quare book, with a parchment cover. ‘Here is the entry,’ resumed Dodson. ‘“Middlesex, Capias Martha Bardell, Widow , v. Samuel Pickwick . Damages #15... ... of an infu riated multitude, prohibited a pugilistic contest between the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam? A duel in Ipswich, ma’am? I don’... ...You will find them at the Great White Horse. You recollect the case of the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suf folk Bantam, Grummer?’ Mr. Grummer intimate...

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... a mortal. This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which ... ... in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the ... ...n had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment ... ... the room, good-naturedly tending his patient of the night before. The two officers, look- ing at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each othe... ...ounty town; or, worse still, in the East or West Indies, with a society of officers, and patronized by Mrs. Major O’Dowd! Amelia died with laughing at... ...- logue as indeed would have served to condemn a whole regi- ment of young officers. If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist m... ... consequence of the repeated visits of the aides-de-camp of the Sheriff of Middlesex, Rawdon and his wife did not go back to their lodgings at Brompto...

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...ticipation in any of its accents outward or inward, than others natives of Middlesex or Surrey, where the scene of his chief education lay. The climat... ...uary, 1805. Two months later, some eleven months after their marriage, the regiment was broken; and Captain Sterling, declining to serve elsewhere on ... ...ordination and co-ordination,—is so unspeakably impor- tant. Professions, “regimented human pursuits,” how many of honorable and manful might be possi... ... Letter itself may perhaps indicate. “To Anthony Sterling, Esq., 24th Regiment, Dublin. “Knightsbridge, 10th Nov., 1829. “My D... ... have shocked Augustus even more than the defeat of Varus. One of the four officers with Macnaghten was George Lawrence, a brother-in-law of Nat Barto...

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... and teach a Sunday school than this; or a sergeant’s lady and ride in the regimental waggon; or, oh, how much gayer it would be to wear spangles and ... ...of Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and assistant officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex—”One hundred and sixty-six, six and eight-pence, at the suit of M... ...this I might have been quite a different man. I didn’t do my duty with the regiment so bad. Y ou know how I was thrown over about the money, and who g... ...Captain Macmurdo, a veteran officer and Waterloo man, greatly liked by his regiment, in which want of money alone prevented him from attaining the hig... ...d gave a little gaiety to an otherwise very triste conversa- tion. The two officers laughed at Rawdon’s discomfiture. “I’m glad the little ‘un isn’t a... ...and put on a tight cravat and a trim buff waistcoat, so that all the young officers in the mess-room, whither Crawley had preceded his friend, complim... ...ited the Emperor’s tomb at Longwood, when to these gentlemen and the young officers of the ship, Major Dobbin not being by, he described the whole bat...

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...the steps of the maitre d’hotel. The noise of quick steps, an odor of wine and vi- ands, a clinking of crystal and plates, warned them that they were ... ...sty is about to pay me the honor of passing a day at Blois; I depend upon the 18 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 king, my nephew, not having to repent of t... ...aw this movement, and called M. de Saint Remy. “This is not the time for gossiping, but working,” said she, with the tone of an angry housekeeper. M. ... ...s” (Mazarin stole a furtive glance at the king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fail, — well, would you approve of... ...tions. I have no means of rewarding such services.” “Bah!” said Athos, laughing. “Your majesty is joking, have you not a million? Ah! why am I not pos... ...hat advice will you give him?” Athos fixed upon Monk a proud and resolute look. “My lord,” said he, “with this million, which others would perhaps emp... ...rotected might again stand in need of the protector, and would, conse- quently, not refuse him, such being the case, the petty sat- isfaction of trans...

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...t have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did.” The parish officers testified the truth of this story; but it seems, there had been a ... ...d, he would have liked them still less. ‘Is he recruiting for a—for a fine regiment?’ said Joe, glancing at a little round mirror that hung in the bar... .... ‘I believe he is,’ replied the host. ‘It’s much the same thing, whatever regiment he’s recruiting for. I’m told there an’t a deal of difference betw... ...can trust me then, and credit what I say. I believe I shall enlist in your regiment to night. The reason I don’t do so now is, because I don’t want un... ...ne way, and that a vast throng of persons were crossing the river from the Middlesex to the Surrey shore, in unusual haste and evi dent excitement. T... ...he lobby to the door of the House of Commons, where it was received by two officers of the house who rolled it up to the table ready for presentation—... ...that way, and that the flames would shortly reach them; and calling to the officers of the jail to come and quench the fire from a cistern which was i... ... preference. It chanced at that moment, that the justices of the peace for Middlesex pro claimed by public placard that they stood in need of a fe m...

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...und. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that an... ...marched through Chobham to deploy on the north side of the common. Several officers from the Inkerman barracks had been on the common ear- lier in the... ...e day, and one, Major Eden, was reported to be missing. The colonel of the regiment came to the Chobham bridge and was busy questioning the crowd at m... ...quadron of hussars, two Maxims, and about four hundred men of the Cardigan regiment started from Aldershot. A few seconds after midnight the crowd in ... ...e military authorities. The soldiers I addressed didn’t know anything; the officers were mysterious as well as busy. I found people in the town quite ... ...nyhow,” said the artilleryman. “They ‘aven’t seen that fire-beam yet.” The officers who were not actively engaged stood and stared over the treetops s... ...nd the bend, my fever and faintness overcame my fears, and I landed on the Middlesex bank and lay down, deadly sick, amid the long grass. I suppose th... ...ith the adjacent houses, and massacred an entire battalion of the Cardigan Regiment. No details are known. Maxims have been absolutely useless against...

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...ng as if from Marathon, appeared with an evening paper! “I say, you chaps, Middlesex all out for a hun- dred and five!” Under Flack’s pressure I becam... ...riend of his father’s, admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of o... ...E keeps ‘is side-arms awful: ‘e leaves ‘em all about An’ then comes up the regiment an’ pokes the ‘eathen out. All along o’ dirtiness, all along o... ...self human, mor- tal and human in the sight of all the world, the pleasant officers we had imagined would change to wonderful heroes at the first crac... ...in French, porters in blouses, workmen in enormous purple trousers, police officers in peaked caps instead of helmets and romantically cloaked, big ca... ...at prototype, was Herbert Spencer (who couldn’t read Kant); such are whole regiments of prominent and entirely self-satisfied contemporaries. They go ...

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...the wide ocean in an open boat, by order of Fletcher Christian, one of his officers, at this very minute. Another flash of my fire, and ‘Thursday Octo... ...g great part of the storm, now poured upon deck, where no exertions of the officers could keep them, while their assistance might have been useful. Th... ...mocks, leaving the working of the pumps and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommon exertions. Ro... ...is informed by the serjeant that it is essential to his pros pects in the regiment that he should take out a single Gloucester cheese, weighing from ... ...es, we could have put away the knapsacks and hung up the hats of the whole regiment of Guides. Aforetime, M. Loyal was a tradesman in the town. You c... ...o’clock at night comes; and goes over, I think, to some flash house on the Middlesex side. He comes back, he does, as reg’lar as the clock strikes thr... ...had a mast with shrouds and stays set up for practice (as they have in the Middlesex House of Correc tion), it would be so much the better. At presen...

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...It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stations in the Himalayas for the hot weather; and though th... ... did the next best thing I left him alone. That summer the invalids of the regiment to which my friend belonged were ordered off to the Hills early, b... ...arch up into the hills to Kasauli or Dugshai or Subathoo. I dined with the officers the night before they left—they were marching at five in the morni... ...sar road, and ten miles distant from my house. By a mere chance one of the officers drove back for another good dinner at the Club (cooking on the lin... ...m. “I was wondering where that brute had gone to. He’s the best dog in the regiment,” said my friend. “I offered the little fellow twenty rupees for h... ...he first of the low winter clouds cuts off the well-known view and darkens Middlesex. On the south edge of it I can see a postal packet’s light plough...

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...gentleman—” “William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex,” he murmured. “Between this gentleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Pen... ...ntleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself.” “Thank you, miss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex... ...declaration of his principles, that as Mr. Carstone is about to rejoin his regiment, perhaps Mr. C. will favour him with an order on his agent for twe... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu... ...e noble house, the pictures of his forefa thers, strangers defacing them, officers of police coarsely handling his most precious heirlooms, thousands... ...e. It was now past one, as I saw by the clock against the wall. Two police officers, looking in their per fectly neat uniform not at all like people ...

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...tion to the Mediterranean. He had come home from Gibraltar, and joined his regiment only a few weeks before setting out with his friend Captain Herrie... ... going home with my Lady to dear Carminster.” “No, no, he remains with his regiment in town, unless he rides down later when he can have his leave of ... ... mother’s darling, Lady Belle, I may have leave of absence from her and my regiment, both at once, and go to meet Mr. Wayland if I like, or at any rat... ...City, the Strand was un- der the jurisdiction of justices of the peace for Middlesex, and they had so much more than they could do properly, that some... ...a billet been brought in from the widow of one of her father’s old brother officers who had heard of his being in town, and begged him to bring his da...

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... of the British army—met with much acceptance; and the effigies of Mr. Andrew Lang were admired in the Marquesas. There is the place for him to go whe... ... I am sure at least that I regard it so myself; for the civil servants of France have never appeared to any foreigner as at all the flower of their co... ...ches toiling under his bloodshot eye. 152 In The South Seas The fear of Nakaeia filled the land. No regularity of jus- tice was affected; there was n... ...coration. There was a table and a recess- bed, in which Mrs. Stevenson slept; while I camped on the matted floor with Johnnie, Mrs. Johnnie, her siste...

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...o baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may. A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and pres... ...hen he fell in love with her at a ball on board the Crippler, given to the officers of that ship when she lay in Plymouth Harbour. “The dear old Cripp... ...ommission was obtained and Richard re ceived directions with it to join a regiment in Ireland. He arrived post haste with the intelligence one evenin... ...assoon. The old girl bor rowed a bassoon from the bandmaster of the Rifle Regiment. I practised in the trenches. Got on, got another, get a living by... ... I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment—officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition.” “’Tis like... ...gentleman—” “William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex,” he murmured. “Between this gentleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Pen... ...ntleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself.” “Thank you, miss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu...

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...ner had escaped, and a gigantic warrior in the uniform of a colonel of the regiment of Artois glaring over me with pointed sword. 28 Thackeray “Rends... ...and Cross of St. Louis, the title of Count, the command of a crack cavalry regiment, the l4me Chevaux Marins, were the bribes that were actually offer... ...here stood the horrid linnen- cart, with ‘Mary Blodder, Laundress, Ealing, Middlesex,’ wrote on the bord, and waiting till my abandind old parint shou... ...gustus de la Pluche, Esquire, to be Deputy Lieutenant.’” “‘North Diddlesex Regiment of Y eomanry Cavalry. “‘James Augustus de la Pluche, Esquire, to b... ...ilver spurs and tassels, set off to admiration the handsome persons of the officers of our corps. We wore powder in those days; and a regulation pigta... ...diality, and I speedily became a prime favorite with himself and the other officers of the corps. Jowler was the most hospitable of men; and gratifyin... ...erb, “are you up to snuff?” arose out of the above circum- stance; for the officers of my corps, none of whom, except my- self, had ventured on the st... ..., until we received a strange document from Higgs, in London—which begun, “Middlesex to wit. Samuel Cox, late of Portland Place, in the city of W estm...

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...ry is good, when the proper tests are prescribed for the qualifications of officers, the proper rules for their pro motion; when the business is conv... ...which, so far as depends on the despot, there is no positive oppression by officers of state, but in which all the collective interests of the people ... ...country does the representative body undertake, by itself or its delegated officers, to prepare the estimates. Though the supplies can only be voted b... ...ir political clas 107 J S Mill sification. The notion that Yorkshire and Middlesex have rights apart from those of their inhabitants, or that Liverp... ...edience to orders. A government thus supported, by keeping its Hun garian regiments in Italy and its Italian in Hungary, can long continue to rule in...

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...vy Council?—or the Lord Mayor and Common Council of London—the Sheriffs of Middlesex—and the Twelve Judges? As to the court physi- cians, though three... ...e of Maida in Calabria. They com- posed a force equal to about six English regiments of infan- try on the common establishment. Every man of these fou... ...-in-chief presided, assisted (as Napoleon) by his whole staff. Many of the officers were strongly for having the whole put to death: they used the ver... ...bout the proper course: ‘massacre without mercy’ was his proposal. But his officers thought otherwise: they were brave men; ‘and,’ says Robertson, ‘th... ...ying that it did turn out unhap- pily. We need not doubt that the merciful officers were oth- erwise rewarded; but for this world and the successes of...

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..., or rather is conducted, six miles through the woods to the Merrimack, at Middlesex, and as we did not care to loiter in this part of our voyage, whi... ...en men are about to do hot and dirty work. If I should ask the minister of Middlesex to let me speak in his pulpit on a Sunday, he would object, becau... ...n asylum. By noon we were let down into the Merrimack through the locks at Middlesex, just above Pawtucket Falls, by a se rene and liberal minded man... ...med notable service as a captain of rangers in the French war; commanded a regiment of the New Hampshire militia at the battle of Bunker Hill; and fou... ...avid M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “distinguished and brave” officers.—”Major Andrew M’Clary, a native of this town [Epsom], fell at the... ...rnton, perhaps, we met a soldier lad in the woods, going to muster in full regimentals, and holding the middle of the road; deep in the forest, with s...

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... with him at Sir Alexander Macdonald’s, where was a young of- ficer in the regimentals of the Scots Royal, who talked with a vivacity, fluency, and pr... ...nd, in 1702, written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. Johnson. ‘It is sad stuff, Sir, miserably written... ...d one night, as late as at eleven o’clock, he accompanied the Major of the regiment in going what are styled the Rounds, where he might observe the fo... ...walking among the tents, and observing the difference between those of the officers and private men, he said that the superiority of ac- commodation o... ...the camp were, from the gentlemen of the Lincolnshire regiment, one of the officers of which accommodated him with a tent in which he slept; and from ... ... Newhaven and Johnson carried on an argument for some time, concerning the Middlesex election. Johnson said, ‘Parliament may be considered as bound by... ... went with Messieurs Dilly, to see some friends at Bedford; dined with the officers of the militia of the county, and next day pro- ceeded on my journ...

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...re the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle. Excellent institutions, and gentle, kind-heart... ...of intelligence 87 Charles Dickens equally interesting. Besides these two officers, there was a little thin old man, with long grizzly hair, crouched... ...Lord Mayor’s facetiousness, but more at his own; the constables and police-officers were (as in duty bound) in ecstasies at Mr. Hobler and the Lord Ma... ...r knowl- edge thus: We went over the House of Correction for the county of Middlesex shortly after, to witness the opera- tion of the silent system; a... ...n the captain, who was reported to have once passed through Spain with his regiment, and who must be well acquainted with the national music. He was i...