Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot

Cannon, Richard, 1779-1865Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
204K words
Chapters
21

Tags

English Originals Military Military ArchivesHistorical ReappraisalRegimental HistoryMilitary StrategyTeam CollaborationBritish ArmyMilitary CommandersGroup Biography19th Century

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot by Cannon. Author: Cannon, Richard, 1779-1865. Language: English. Class: UA: Military science: Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation. Release Date: Aug 8, 2017

Editor's review

This book is a regimental history of the Second Regiment of Foot, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, written by the nineteenth-century military historian Richard Cannon. It is an important reference work on the modern British Army's military institutions and regimental evolution. Its value lies not in battle narratives but in using regimental archives as a thread to present changes in establishment, stationing, personnel, and organization, making it a primary source for studying the organizational history of the British Army, colonial garrisons, and military system change. As a free public-domain eBook from Project Gutenberg, it gives readers low-cost access to the original text and is suitable for source retrieval and topical comparison. It is best read as an instrumental history book, alongside maps, chronologies, and other regimental histories for cross-reading; the prose is nineteenth-century English with long sentences and requires patience.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the table of contents and preface first to understand the chronological or organizational structure, then locate the needed chapters.
  2. Prepare a British historical chronology and maps, checking stationing, battles, and organizational changes as you read.
  3. Use the book as a retrieval tool: excerpt entries on organization and personnel by topic and build your own research cards.
  4. Read it alongside other regimental histories in the same series to compare different paths of organizational evolution.

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book about battle stories or about military organization? It records the evolution of the Second Regiment of Foot, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, based on regimental archives, focusing on changes in establishment, stationing, personnel, and organization rather than battle narrative. Readers wanting war stories will find it dry, while researchers can use it as a source reference.
How difficult is the English, and what background is needed? The original is nineteenth-century English with long sentences and military and administrative terminology. It requires good English reading ability and familiarity with basic British Army organizational vocabulary. It is advisable to read the table of contents and preface first to get used to the format, then consult chapters as needed.
As an eBook, how can it be read more effectively? Use the electronic version's search function to locate names, places, and organizational keywords; cross-check with chronologies and maps, and excerpt key entries onto cards. Using it as a reference book by topic is more efficient than reading it straight through.

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About the author

Cannon, Richard, 1779-1865 Author

Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a British military historian. Public information about him is limited, and few details of his life are systematically recorded. The library holds twenty-eight of his works, almost all of them historical records of British Army regiments, including the Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot; the Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars; the Historical Record of the Fourth, or the King's Own Regiment of Foot; the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot; the Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot; the Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons; the Historical record of the Seventh Regiment, or the Royal Fusiliers; and the Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment. These works trace regimental lineage, campaigns and organizational change in a well-ordered format with substantial documentation, typical of nineteenth-century British military histories, and remain useful references for the study of British Army regimental history.