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Notes
The Marines: The Early Days
1 Britt Zerbe, The Birth of the Royal Marines, 1664–1802 (The Boydell Press, 2013), p22.
2 Ibid, p25.
3 Seymour’s 4th Foot, Saunderson’s 30th Foot, Villiers’s 31st Foot, and Fox’s 32nd Foot. A succession of amalgamations, name changes, and cuts in the years between 1714 and the present day have seen these regiments becoming: 4th Foot – part of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment; 30th Foot – part of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment; 31st Foot – part of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment; 32nd Foot – part of The Rifles.
4 A Spanish coastguard cut off the ear of one Captain Jenkins, or so the captain claimed. Jenkins was brought before the House of Commons to exhibit his ear in a bottle. Winston Churchill wrote: ‘whether it was in fact his own ear or whether he had lost it in a seaport brawl remains uncertain, but the power of this shrivelled object was immense’. Winston Churchill, History of the English Speaking Peoples, Purnell, vol 5, chapter 2, p2104.
5 Zerbe, p44.
6 Ibid, p45.
7 Despite the imposition of a tariff on the price of commissions imposed by George I, who disapproved of purchase, there was a wide variation in the price of commissions. See Alan J Guy, Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of George II (Army Records Society, 1990), pp13–14 and 38 for a résumé of the system.
8 See also orders for the Officers of Marines on Board HMS Mars, 31 May 1799, in Brian Lavery (ed), Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1751–1815 (Navy Records Society), pp227–33.
9 See Andrew Lambert, The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 (Faber & Faber, 2012).
10 Admiral Carden in early 1915, at the start of the Dardanelles campaign.
11 Richard Brooks, The Royal Marines: 1664 to the Present (London: Constable, 2002), p10.
The Marines in Boston, 1774–75
1 Britt Zerbe, The Birth of the Royal Marines 1664–1802 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), p229. See also Thomas Boas, “ For the glory of the Marines”. The organisation, training, uniforms, and combat role of the British Marines during the American revolution (Devon, Pennsylvania: Dockyard Press, 1993).
2 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, The private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich: First Lord of the Admiralty, 1771–1782, ed George R Barnes and John Owen (London: Navy Records Society, 1932), vol I, p55.
3 General Thomas Gage to Vice-Admiral Samuel Graves, 17 February 1774, in Naval documents of the American Revolution (NDAR), (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1964), vol I, p31.
4 Major John Pitcairn to Lord Sandwich, 14 February 1775, in John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, vol I, p58.
5 Major John Pitcairn to Lord Sandwich, 4 March 1775, in John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, vol I, p60.
6 Ibid, p61.
7 Allen French, ‘The British expedition to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775’, The Journal of the American Military Foundation, I (1937), pp1–17; Major John Pitcairn’s Report to General Gage, 26 April 1775: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/account3_lexington.cfm.
8 ‘A circumstantial Account of an attack that happened, on the 19th April, 1775, on his Majesty’s Troops by a number of the people of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay’, in NDAR, vol I, p195. See also david H Fischer, Paul Revere’s ride (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
9 Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill. A city, a siege, a revolution (London: doubleday, 2013), p128.
10 John Barker, The British in Boston being the diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King’s Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776, ed Elizabeth E dana (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1924), p35.
11 Cyril Field, Britain’s sea-soldiers. A history of the Royal Marines and their predecessors (Liverpool: The Lyceum Press, 1924), vol I, p151.
12 Ibid.
13 ‘Narrative of Vice Admiral Samuel Graves’, 19 April 1775, in NDAR, vol I, p193.
14 Craig J Brown, Victor T Mastone and Christopher V Maio, ‘The revolutionary war battle America forgot: Chelsea Creek, 27–28 May 1775’, The New England Quarterly, 86:3 (2013), pp398–432.
15 Vice Admiral Samuel Graves to General Thomas Graves, 25 May 1775, in NDAR, vol I, pp523–4.
16 General J Burgoyne to Lord Stanley, 25 June 1775, in C Field, vol I, pp154–6.
17 Ibid, p155.
18 Richard M Ketchum, The battle for Bunker Hill (London: Cresset Press, 1963), p121. See also Richard Frothingham, History of the siege of Boston and the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill (Boston: Charles C Little and James Brown, 1896).
19 Samuel Gillespie, An historical review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its original institut...
