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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S14. 



85th Light Infantry — 3 rank and 

 file killed ; 2 captains, 1 subaltern, 

 26 rank and file, wounded. 



Royal Marines, 2nd Battalion, — 

 4 rank and file killed ; 10 rank and 

 file, wounded. 



Royal Marines, 3rd Battalion — 2 

 rank and file, killed ; 1 serjeant, 9 

 rank and file wounded. 



Detachments of Royal Marines 

 from the ships attached to the 2nd 

 Battalion — 2 rank and file killed ; 

 1 rank and file wounded. 



Detachments of Royal Marines 

 under the command of Captain 

 Robyns — 2 rank and file killed ; 



I captain, 9 rank and file wounded. 

 Total — 1 general staff, 1 subal- 

 tern, 2 Serjeants, 35 rank and file, 

 killed; 7 captains, 4 subalterns, 



II Serjeants, 229 rank and file, 

 wounded. 



Names of Officers Killed and 

 Wounded, 

 Killed. 

 General Staff — Major General 

 Robert Ross. 



21st Fusileers — Lieut. Grace. 



Wounded. 

 ^ist Fusileers — Brevet Major 

 Renny, slightly ; Lieut. Leavocq, 

 se\erely. 



44th Regiment — Brevet Major 

 Cruice, slightly ; Capt. H. Green- 

 shields, dangerously (since dead) ; 

 Capt. G, Hill, Lieut. R. Cruice, 

 Ensign J. White, severely. 



85th Light Infantry — Captains 

 W. P. de Bathe and J. D. Hicks, 

 Lieutenant G. Wellings, slightly. 



Royal Marines — Captain John 

 Robyns, severely. 



(Signed) 



Henry Debbeig, Major, 



A. D. A. A. General. 



Admiralty Office, Oct. 17, 1814. 

 Captain Crofton, acting Captain 

 of his Majesty's ship the Royal 

 Oak, arrived this morning at this 

 Office, with dispatches from Vice 

 Admiral the Honourable Sir Alex- 

 ander Cochrane, K. B. addressed to 

 John Wilson Croker, Esq. of which 

 the following are copies : — 



His Majest^s ship Tonnanl, 

 Chesapeake, Sept. 17, 



Sir, — I request that you will be 

 pleased to inform my Lords Com- 

 missioners of the Admiralty, that 

 the approaching equinoctial new 

 moon rendering it unsafe to proceed 

 immediately out of the Chesapeake 

 with the combined expedition, to 

 act upon the plans which had been 

 concerted previous to the departure 

 of the Iphigenia ; Major General 

 Ross and myself resolved to occupy 

 the intermediate time to advan- 

 tage, by making a demonstration 

 upon the city of Baltimore, which 

 might be converted into a real at- 

 tack, should circumstances appear 

 to justify it; and as our arrange- 

 ments were soon made, I proceed- 

 ed up this river, and anchored off 

 the mouth of the Patapsco, on the 

 11th instant, where the frigates and 

 smaller vessels entered, at a conve- 

 nient distance for landing the 

 troops. 



At an early hour next morning, 

 the disembarkation of the army 

 was effected without opposition, 

 having- attached to it a brigade of 

 600 seamen, under Capt. Edward 

 Crofton (late of the Leopard) ; the 

 second battalion of marines ; the 

 marines of the squadron, and the 

 colonial black marines. Rear Ad- 

 miral Cockburn accompanied the 

 General, to advise and arrange as 



