[lighthall] LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GARRET FISHER 67 



On the 5th of September, 1764, he was commissioned lieutenant; 

 on the 12th December, 1770, adjutant; on the 23rd January, 1773, 

 captain; on the 26th of September, 1787, major. At that time the 

 regiment included a number of his Loyalist relatives. Cornelius 

 Cuyler — nephew of that staunch Loyalist, "the American Lady" — 

 was Lieutenant-Colonel; a lieutenant was Cornelius Cuyler, junior; 

 an ensign was "John Visscher." 



In 1790, the Fifty-fifth was quartered at Edinburgh Castle, where 

 Kay, the miniaturist and etcher of portraits, took a sketch of "Major 

 Fisher," accompanying the print of which, in Kay's "Original Por- 

 traits," is a brief word saying that the regiment was popular there 

 for the exemplary behaviour of its officers and men. (Kay's portraits 

 were very crude.) While there, it filled out its complement by drafts 

 from the 35th and was ultimately moved to Newcastle, whence in 

 time it was shipped to the Continent for active service. In after 

 days it was united with the 34th as "The Border Regiment," of 

 which the 55th became, and remains, the second battalion. On the 

 25th April, 1792, Fisher was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the 60th or 

 Royal Americans. 



On the 17th February, 1794, Fisher became the Lieutenant- 

 Colonel of the 9th Foot or East Norfolks. We now come to his 

 connection with events in Guadaloupe. 



A rare volume exists, by the Reverend Cooper Willyams, A.M., 

 entitled "An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies in the 

 Year 1794, under the Command of Their Excellencies Lieutenant- 

 General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice- Admiral Sir John Jervis, 

 K.B., Commanders-in-Chief in the West Indies, with the Reduction 

 of the Islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, Guadaloupe, Mariagalante, 

 Desiada, etc., and the events that followed those unparalleled suc- 

 cesses, and caused the loss of Guadaloupe." The author was a 

 member of the Expedition as Chaplain of H.M.S. Boyne, the flagship 

 of Admiral Jervis. The book, a wide quarto of over 200 pages, is 

 handsomely printed and illustrated by elaborate West Indian views 

 in mezzotint after drawings by the author. In some of these pictures 

 the Boyne can be distinguished, and perhaps Colonel Fisher and 

 General Grey. The copy belonging to the present writer was that 

 of the author himself, containing notes, corrections, hand-coloured 

 sketches, and extra blank pages. 



"In the latter end of 1793," writes Willyams, "His Majesty, 

 having determined to send a formidable armament to the West 

 Indies . . . Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Grey, Knight of the 

 Bath, was promoted to the rank of General in America, and Com- 



