This is a Victorian-era regimental history, penned in 1853 by Richard Cannon, chronicling the Dorsetshire Regiment from its founding in 1702 through its service in the Napoleonic Wars and beyond. Cannon documents campaigns, battles, notable officers, and the steady accumulation of honors that marked the regiment's path across eight decades of imperial conflict. The book serves as both military chronicle and institutional memorial, preserving the names and deeds of soldiers who fought in colonial skirmishes and major European engagements alike. For historians of the British Army, genealogists tracing military ancestry, or readers drawn to the texture of 18th and early 19th-century warfare, this volume offers primary-source detail unavailable elsewhere. It captures the regiment's identity as it was understood by mid-Victorian military writers: proud, battle-hardened, and woven into the broader fabric of British imperial expansion.
