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Orders. Military records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing directives or commands issued by a military superior to a subordinate.

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

Military regulations, battalion orders and miscellaneous notes., 1788-[circa 1790.]

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Identifier: MS.13629
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Detailed regulations, circa 1790, for drill and manoeuvre exercises with Sepoy infantry and extracts from regulations dealing with courts martial, military funerals, etc. (folio 1). (ii) Botanical and medical notes and musings upon 'heroic vertue', circa 1790 (folio 56). (iii) Battalion orders at Tellicherry and Bombay for the 7th Battalion of Sepoys, 1788-1790 (folio 65 verso).

Dates: 1788-[circa 1790.]

Miscellaneous letters and documents., 1585-1901.

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Identifier: MS.150
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Lord Justice Clerk Bellenden to James VI, relating his interview with Queen Elizabeth, London, 1 March, 1584/1585. See 'Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, 1584-1585', pages 560, 564, 565. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of Francis Stewart, titular Earl of Bothwell, to Colonel William Urie, relating to an attack upon a sentinel, Dumfries, 1670. (Folio 3.)(iii) ‘Mr. Gidean Guthry his aco.ͭͭ of letters’,...
Dates: 1585-1901.

Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to affairs, chiefly Scottish and military, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries., 1667-1745.

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Identifier: MS.3741
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Orders and letters of Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay to Captain Robert Menzies, Younger of Weem (also known as Younger of Menzies and Fiar of Menzies), 1689-1690, relating to the Killiecrankie campaign and to Menzies's command as Lieutenant-Governor of Inverlochy and Fort William. From the Castle Menzies charter-room. They are extensively quoted in D P Menzies, "The 'red and white' book of Menzies" (Glasgow, 1894). (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates: 1667-1745.

Miscellaneous military papers of Patrick MacLeod., 1786, 1805-1817.

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Identifier: MS.19304
Scope and Contents The papers include a copy of the 1786 prospectus of the Brunswick military academy which the young soldier attended from 1791-1793 (folio 1). Most of the papers relate to the later years of Patrick MacLeod's life spent with the 78th Highlanders in Southern Europe and Egypt. Amongst them are MacLeod's Orders to his battalion prior to the Calabrian campaign of 1806; copies of his letter to Lieutenant General Mackenzie Fraser giving an account of the battle of Maida; lists of officers wounded...
Dates: 1786, 1805-1817.

Miscellaneous papers and letters chiefly connected with the two Jacobite risings., 1715-1746.

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Identifier: MS.3142
Scope and Contents The contents include:Printed matter relating to the '15 (folio 5): Declaration of Prince James Edward, 26 January 1716; plan of the capture of Preston; ‘Act for Appointing Commissioners to Enquire of the Estates of certain Traytors’ (Edinburgh, 1716);Letters of Sir Alexander Macdonald of Sleat and his wife, referring among other things to the kidnapping of Skye men for shipping to America, for which Sir Alexander was blamed, 1739, 1741 (folio 21).The...
Dates: 1715-1746.

Miscellaneous papers of Robert Kirk Dickson, chiefly typescript carbon copies of notes, speeches and other documents associated with his military career., 1941-1951.

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Identifier: MS.13587
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript carbon copies of official reports, 1942, by Robert Kirk Dickson from H.M.S. Manxman, with 'Chronological summary of the first commission of H.M.S. Manxman, 1941-2, written by R.K.D, in 1944 at the request of the Deputy Director, Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty' (folio 1);(ii) Typescript carbon copy of 'Boil down of Cossac (43) 28. Appreciation and Outline Plan for Operation Overlord', by Captain Robert Kirk Dickson,...
Dates: 1941-1951.