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The History of the
Somerset Light Infantry
Volume 1:
1685-1914
Out of print since the 1930's (and with original copies
currently selling for over £300) this rare and
invaluable regimental history of the Somerset Light
Infantry is now available in an electronic format. The
original volume comprised twenty seven chapters in over
400 pages and charted in fascinating detail the history
of the regiment from its founding in 1685 until the dawn
of the First World War. The "Somersets", variously known
as the 13th Foot, Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light
Infantry, etc. were involved in so many famous and
exciting campaigns and battles that a brief listing is
given here:-
Formation
of the Regiment - 1685; The Revolution - 1688; Battle of
Killiekrankie - 1689: Battle of the Boyne - 1690; Siege
of Cork and Kinsale - 1692; Camarett Bay - 1694;
Bombardment of Havre - 1694; The War of the Spanish
Succession; Campaigns in Flanders; Siege of Venloo -
1702; Siege of Liége - 1702; Expedition to Portugal -
1704; The Siege of Gibraltar - 1705; The Siege of
Barcelona - 1705; The Siege of San Mateo - 1706;
Invasion of Valencia; Relief of Barcelona; Battle of
Almanza - 1707; Campaign in Catalonia; Action on the
Caya - 1709; Siege of Gibraltar - 1727; War with France;
Battle of Dettingen - 1743; Battle of Fontenoy - 1745;
Campaign in England and Scotland against Prince Charles
Edward; Action of Falkirk Muir and Battle of Culloden -
1746; Campaign in Flanders; Battle of Val - 1747; West
Indies - 1781-2; Campaign in St Domingo - 1793-95;
Corunna - 1800; The Invasion of Egypt - 1801; Aboukir
Bay; Defeat and Capitulation of the French - 1801;
Capture of Martinique - 1809; Capture of Guadaloupe -
1810; War with the United States; Campaign in Canada -
1813-14; Campaign in Burma - 1824-26; War in
Afghanistan; The Storming of Ghazni - 1839; Occupation
of Kabul; Campaign of 1840 - 1841; The Siege of
Jellalabad - 1841-2; Re-occupation of Kabul - 1842; The
Storming of the Heights of Truckee, India - 1845; The
Crimea - 1855; The Siege of Sevastopol; The Indian
Mutiny - 1857; Action at Azimghur - 1858; The Campaign
in Oudh - 1858; Mauritius - 1863; Pretoria - 1877; The
Campaign against Sekukini - 1878; The Zulu War; Battle
of Kambula; Battle of Ulundi - 1879; The Burmese War -
1885-6-7; The Mohmand Campaign - 1897; South African War
- 1899-1900; Battles of Spion Kop, Vaal, Krantz and
Relief of Ladysmith in Natal - 1900; India - 1899-1908;
Tientsin and Peking - 1911; India - 1913.
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