Talk:84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)

2nd battalion

Fryer in biography of Allen Maclean says it was Alexander Macdonald who was raising a regiment, and not John Small, and Maclean was advise about this by Gage (p.121)--Koakhtzvigad (talk) 10:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Campaign Participation

This article originally stated that the 84th (Royal Highland Emigrants) Regiment participated in the New York Campaign of 1776, the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777-1778 and the Penobscot Campaign of 1779. I have removed these parts of the article on the grounds that neither battalion of the Regiment participated in any of these three campaigns. Below are my authorities for doing so.

Darling, Anthony D., Red Coat and Brown Bess (1987); Museum Restoration Service; Bloomfield, Ontario. ISBN 0-919316-12-3. On p. 60, Darling gives the full British order of battle for the New York and New Jersey Campaign of 1776 and the engagements thereof, including the composition of the grenadier and light infantry battalions (which were made up of detached companies from the different regiments). The 84th (Royal Highland Emigrants) does not appear. On pp. 61-62, Darling gives the British order of battle for the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777-1778 and its various engagements, which does not include the 84th Regiment. On p. 62, Darling gives the British order of battle for the ‘Defense of Penobscot, Maine”, which details the 74th (Argyle Highlanders) Regiment and the 82nd (Duke of Hamilton’s) Regiment but not the 84th. On p. 57 (Footnote #11), Darling says that five companies of the 2nd Battalion served in America, while the 1st Battalion of the 84th never left Canada.

Katcher, Philip R. N., King George’s Army, 1775-1783: A Handbook of British, American and German Regiments (1973); Osprey Publishing Ltd; Reading, Berkshire. ISBN 0-85045-157-4. On pp. 72-73, Katcher gives a very quick summary of the 84th’s history, which does not mention the New York, Philadelphia or Penobscot Campaigns. His entries for the 74th (p. 70) and 82nd (p. 62) Regiments both say that they were at Penobscot in 1779.

Stewart, David, Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland; with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments. Two Volumes (1977 (first published in 1822)); John Donald Publishers; Edinburgh. In Volume 2 of his book, Stewart gives a history of both battalions of the Royal Highland Emigrants. On pp. 140-143, he describes the service of the 1st Battalion, giving most attention to Quebec, and says that they remained in Canada during the war. On pp. 143-145, he tells of how 5 companies of the 2nd Battalion served in Nova Scotia while the other five served in the Southern Colonies, mentioning Eutaw Springs. Nowhere is any participation in the New York, Philadelphia or Penobscot Campaigns mentioned. Stewart describes the service of the 74th Regiment on pp. 113-116, fully covering the Defense of Penobscot, and makes it clear that the 82nd Regiment (not the 84th) were also present.

Martin, David G., The Philadelphia Campaign, June 1777-July 1778 (1993). Combined Books; Conshocken, PA. ISBN 0-938289-19-5. On pp. 250-254, Martin gives the full British orders of battles for Brandywine and Monmouth, in neither of which the 84th Regiment appears.

Morrissey, Brendan, Monmouth Courthouse, 1778: The Last Great Battle in the North (2004). Osprey Publishing Ltd; Oxford. ISBN 1-84176-772-7. On pp. 82-84, Morrissey gives a full British order of battle for Monmouth, including the composition of the grenadier and light infantry companies. The 84th Regiment does not appear.

Stewart, Charles H., The Services of British Regiments in Canada and North America (1964). Department of National Defence Library, Ottawa. On p. 356, Stewart describes the service of the 1st Battalion, 84th, in Canada, and that of the 2nd Battalion; including the detachment that went to the South. There is no mention of either battalion participating in the New York, Philadelphia or Penobscot Campaigns. However, he does mention that five companies were “drafted to New York” by Lieutenant General Henry Clinton in 1776. When a unit was “drafted”, nearly all of the enlisted men were redistributed among other regiments. This happened to entire regiments - the 16th Light Dragoons and the 6th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 26th, 45th, 52nd, 59th and 65th Regiments of Foot in North America during 1775-1783. (Darling, Red Coat and Brown Bess, pp. 55-57). When an entire regiment was drafted, the officers and some of the N.C.O.s were retained and they returned to the United Kingdom to re-recruit. The 84th seems to have been unusual in being only partly drafted. It is possible, then, that some men who were drafted from the 84th served in the New York Campaign of 1776 but in different regiments. Flonto (talk) 13:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Kim Stacy 84th Regiment

Greetings. If you are the person working up the 84th page... Great Start! Since I retired last year, I have been working on the 84th ms. I will be happy to share what I have to date. As for the NY and PA participation, they were with the 2nd Lights. The books you mentioned were not privy to what is available today. There are many instances where the 84th was simply forgotten as they worked as independent companies are were brigaded as with the 2nd Light (there usual home as Clinton's Highlanders). RI is a great example. All of the experts and books claim the 84th was not there. BUT two companies had muster returns placed at RI and with the right dates. They got lost in the records. Keep up the good work!!! Kim Krob.stacy@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.244.183.86 (talk) 02:39, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Good work

Excellent article. When are you going to nominate it for an award? You (the main editors) should! --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 07:55, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

- Well, I don't know what the article looked like in 2010, but I'm afraid to say it's a bit of a mess in 2015 and a confusing read. There appear to have been too many hands at work. There's a lot of duplicated information. The structure needs to be revised and the information condensed. In places it appears to be more concerned with teh histoy of Nova Scotia during AWI period than the 84th Regiment, even if the two subjects are intimately connnected. JF42 (talk) 09:36, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

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