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 The French Revolutionary Wars

• 1789 - Regiment is stationed in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Assisted laying out of foundation of college and parade.  French Revolution begins.

• 1790 - Relieved by the 55th Foot, marches to Hamilton, Scotland. Oct. 19, 261 privates and 21 NCO's drafted into 55th Foot.

• 1791 - Leaves Scotland for New Geneva, Ireland.

• 1792 - Quartered in Dublin, Ireland.

• 1793 - Republic of France declares war on Britain and Holland.  Nov, Grenadier Co (Capt. John Oswald) amalgamated into 2nd Grenadier Battalion under Lt. Col Cradock, Lord Howden.  Light Infantry Co (Capt. P.H. Petit) amalgamated into 1st Light Battalion under Lt. Col Charles Lennox (35th), command transferred to Lt. Col Eyre Coote.  Expeditionary Force leaves Cork under Sir Charles Grey for West Indies.

• 1794 - Lands in Barbadoes.  Feb 5, attacked Martinique which falls on March 20.ms before the storming of Fort Royal, "Grenadiers, this is St. Patrick's Day; the English will do their duty in compliment to the Irish, and the Irish in compliment to the Saint!  Forward, grenadiers!"  Island surrendered March 20.  April 1, 1st Lights land on St. Lucia and invest Morne Fortune and covering Cul-de-Sac.  Island surrenders on April 4, Prince Edward takes possession with the Grenadiers.  April 10, army lands at Guadaloupe with 2nd Batt. Grenadiers and 500 sailors at Gosier Bay under fire.  April 12, Fortress Fleur d'Epée stormed with bayonets exclusively. Operations commence for securing the rest of the island, hard marching and fierce skirmishing.  Island surrenders on April 20.  35th Flank Companies leave with Sir Charles Grey to Barbadoes and are ruined by sickness and disease.  May 5, Center Companies of the 35th Regiment arrive under Lt. Col Charles Lennox after 44 days at sea.  Lennox takes command of Flank Companies of 22nd, 23rd, 35, and 41st Reg'ts and army leaves for St. Domingo (Haiti) and arrive 2 days after its surrender to General John Whyte.  Disease is rampant, killing nearly 100 and incapacitating 150.  Brevet Lt. Col Archibald Macalister in command of the rest of the regiment and composite forces land at St. Kitts under Sir Charles Grey June 19 to battle French reinforcements.  July 2, General Symes takes 5 battalions to take Point-a-Petre but are betrayed by their guides and ambushed.  35th loses Capt. Charles Grove with total British casualities, either killed, wounded, or missing, numbering 491.  French recapture all but Ft. Matilda, garrisoned by a small force, including the 35th remnants.  General Prescott evacuated the besieged fort at 10pm on Dec. 10, into HMS Terpsichore without the French knowledge and escaped to Martinique.  After the British withdrawal, Victor Hugues set up the guillotine and murdered every anti-republican he can find.

• 1795 - Due to the enormous losses suffered by illness, the men were drafted and the remaining NCOs and officers were sent to England to recruit more soldiers, followed by the rest of the regiment thereafter.  They were sent shortly thereafter to Gibraltar under General Charles O'Hara and reinforced by the regiments already stationed there.  Illness from the West Indies had lingered, however,

• 1796 - The 35th Regiment is transferred to England in November, quartered with Lt. Col Colin Campbell (a Bunker Hill veteran) at Hilsea Barracks.

• 1797 - Lt. Col Colin Campbell retires on March 30 after 42 years of service.  The regiment marches from Hilsea to Leeds under Lt. Col John Oswald and trains the militia and volunteer corps.  Spain declares war on Britain.

• 1798 - 35th Regiment marches to Durham.  Flank Companies join a composite militia battalion and are encamped at Blyth, returning later in the year with new militia recruits in the regular ranks.  Irish Rebellion breaks out.

• 1799 - The regiment is stationed on the Isle of Jersey for a time, then back to England.  A second battalion is raised.  They join the Duke of York for the Holland Campaign and disembark on September 15.  The regiment would distinguish itself in action, though the campaign itself was not successful.  Napoleon Bonaparte becomes 1st Consul of the French Republic.

• 1800 - 1/35th leaves England for Minorca and onto Malta, which falls to British-Italian forces on Sept. 4th.  The 35th hoists the King's Colours over Valetta, Malta.  

• 1801-1802 -  Remains in Malta, despite Peace of Amiens deciding Malta should be returned to Knights of St. John, due to Napoleon's advances on Egypt.