71st Regiment of Foot (1745)

For other units with the same regimental number, see 71st Regiment of Foot (disambiguation).
71st Regiment of Foot
Active1745–1746
Country Kingdom of Great Britain
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
EngagementsJacobite rising of 1745
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment		John Manners, Marquess of Granby

The 71st Regiment of Foot, or Granby's Regiment, was a regiment in the British Army from 1745 to 1746.

History

In response to the Jacobite rising of 1745, the regiment was raised in Rutland by Lord John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.[1] Lord Manners' son, John, Marquess of Granby, received a commission as colonel of the regiment.[2] The new regiment was nicknamed "The Leicester Blues"[3] and received the rank 71st.[4]

Granby's Regiment was the only one of its type that raised the full quota of 780 recruits.[1][5] It was declared "half complete" on November 4 and ready to move three days later.[6] The ten regiment's companies were scattered: six at Leicester, two at Loughborough and two at Harborough but on November 12, the regiment was to be assembled at Newcastle upon Tyne.[7] Then, to prevent any Jacobite attempt to reach London, it went either to Lichfield or Warwick.[4]

In December, the regiment was part of Cumberland's Army that successfully besieged Carlisle.[8]

On January 9, the regiment was ordered to Newcastle, as the Jacobite Army stayed in the North.[4] Even though the regiment was never moved northwards beyond Newcastle, the young Marquess of Granby went to the front as a volunteer on the Duke of Cumberland's field staff and saw active service in the last stages of the insurrection, being present at the Battle of Culloden.[1]

In Newcastle the regiment mutinied because they had not been paid but Granby paid the money owed out of his own pocket before they were due to be disbanded.[1]

The regiment was ordered back to Leicester on 27 June 1746 and disbanded in the second half of August[4][7] or on December 25.[3]

Uniform

A contemporary portrait of its colonel and a surviving grenadier cap indicate that Granby's Regiment had blue coats with red facings.[4][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d White-Spunner, Barney (2006). Horse Guards. Macmillan. p. 232. ISBN 978-1405055741.
  2. ^ Massie, Alastair W. (2004). "John Manners, Marquess of Granby". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17958. Retrieved 29 April 2012. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Manners, John (1721-1770)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. ^ a b c d e Reid, Stuart (2012). Cumberland's Culloden Army, 1745-46. Men-at-arms. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-847-3.
  5. ^ Manners, Walter Evelyn (1899). Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of John Manners Marquis of Granby. Macmillan & Company. pp. 17–26.
  6. ^ Atkinson, C. T. (1944). "Jenkins' Ear, the Austrian Succession War and the 'Forty-Five: Gleanings from Source in the Public Record Office". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 22 (91): 280–299. ISSN 0037-9700.
  7. ^ a b c Cormack, Andrew (2004). "The Noblemen's Regiments Raised for Service in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 82 (332): 279–290. ISSN 0037-9700.
  8. ^ Reid, Stuart (1996). 1745: A Military History Of The Last Jacobite Uprising. New York: Sarpedon Publishers. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-885119-28-5.
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