Notes
The Marines: The Early Days
1 Britt Zerbe, The Birth of the Royal Marines, 1664â1802 (The Boydell Press, 2013), p22.
2 Ibid, p25.
3 Seymourâs 4th Foot, Saundersonâs 30th Foot, Villiersâs 31st Foot, and Foxâs 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 â part of The Duke of Lancasterâs Regiment; 30th Foot â part of The Duke of Lancasterâs Regiment; 31st Foot â part of The Princess of Walesâs Royal Regiment; 32nd Foot â 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: âwhether 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 immenseâ. 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), pp13â14 and 38 for a rĂ©sumĂ© 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, 1751â1815 (Navy Records Society), pp227â33.
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, 1774â75
1 Britt Zerbe, The Birth of the Royal Marines 1664â1802 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), p229. See also Thomas Boas, â For the glory of the Marinesâ. 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, 1771â1782, 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, âThe British expedition to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775â, The Journal of the American Military Foundation, I (1937), pp1â17; Major John Pitcairnâs Report to General Gage, 26 April 1775: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/account3_lexington.cfm.
8 âA circumstantial Account of an attack that happened, on the 19th April, 1775, on his Majestyâs Troops by a number of the people of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bayâ, in NDAR, vol I, p195. See also david H Fischer, Paul Revereâs 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 Kingâs Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776, ed Elizabeth E dana (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1924), p35.
11 Cyril Field, Britainâs sea-soldiers. A history of the Royal Marines and their predecessors (Liverpool: The Lyceum Press, 1924), vol I, p151.
12 Ibid.
13 âNarrative of Vice Admiral Samuel Gravesâ, 19 April 1775, in NDAR, vol I, p193.
14 Craig J Brown, Victor T Mastone and Christopher V Maio, âThe revolutionary war battle America forgot: Chelsea Creek, 27â28 May 1775â, The New England Quarterly, 86:3 (2013), pp398â432.
15 Vice Admiral Samuel Graves to General Thomas Graves, 25 May 1775, in NDAR, vol I, pp523â4.
16 General J Burgoyne to Lord Stanley, 25 June 1775, in C Field, vol I, pp154â6.
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...