"Not So Easy, Lads: Wearing the Red Coat 1786-1797" Topic
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Tango01  | 19 Oct 2022 9:18 p.m. PST |
"First-hand unpublished eye-witness accounts of redcoats, particularly of redcoats in Georgian England, surface infrequently. Here the personal and public life in the letters of Serjeant Major William Roworth to his wife form the basis of one particular journey. A journey which was experienced by thousands of his fellow soldiers, played out over two and a half years, from June 1794 to January 1797. Roworth's 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot was just one of many destined for duty on the Continent, where it joined the Duke of York's army as reinforcements during the War of the First Coalition 1792–1797. The men had barely started service when the British were involved in a retreat, of some three hundred miles, that was as ignominious as it was disastrous. Fortescue likened it to the French retreat from Moscow and Moore's retreat to Corunna. Disease and sickness were rife and the loss of men, women and children in the appalling frozen conditions considerable…"
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