Sunday, 17 May 2015

17th MAY 1693 – ON THIS DAY IN RWF HISTORY

Employed as Marines, 1693

A letter, dated this day, from Queen Mary, ordered certain regiments, including the 23rd, to exchange their pikes for muskets and to proceed to Portsmouth to act as marines. The Regiment was divided between twelve men-of-war, a company to each.


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