Historical Record of the Seventieth, or, the Surrey Regiment of Foot

This is the official 19th-century history of the 70th Regiment of Foot, the Surrey Regiment, from its birth in 1758 to 1848. Written by Richard Cannon as part of the British Army's historical records project, it documents nearly a century of service across the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and imperial deployments worldwide. Cannon draws on official reports, orders, and correspondence to reconstruct the regiment's movements, engagements, and key personnel, the colonels who commanded, the battles where they fought, the distant garrisons where they served. The result is a meticulously compiled institutional record rather than a narrative driven by individual drama. For military historians, Regency enthusiasts, and scholars of British imperial history, it offers a window into how the army chronicled its own past: factual, regimented, and steeped in the military culture of its time.