Military General Service 1793-1814, six clasps, Toulouse, Orthes, Nive, Nivelle, Pyrenees, Vittoria (Patrick Connor, 88th Foot) The 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers), were one of the eight Irish Regiments of the British Army, they served with distinction in Pictons 3rd Division in the Peninsular Wars, who later christened them 'The Devils Own' for their devastating bayonet charges and their hand to hand fighting skills, but along with this, they also had the reputation of being the worst plunderers in the British army, in the words of the military historian Arthur Bryant 'The 88th were a tough crowd from the bogs of Western Ireland with a bad reputation for filching Portuguese chickens and goats, but they were born fighters, and their Scottish Colonel Alexander Wallace, had made them one of the crack regiments of the army' 'Rangers of Connaught, it is not my intention to expend any powder this evening, we'll do this business with the cold iron' General Picton, 19th January 1812, before the storming of Cuidad Rogrigo
Military General Service 1793-1814, six clasps, Toulouse, Orthes, Nive, Nivelle, Pyrenees, Vittoria (Patrick Connor, 88th Foot) The 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers), were one of the eight Irish Regiments of the British Army, they served with distinction in Pictons 3rd Division in the Peninsular Wars, who later christened them 'The Devils Own' for their devastating bayonet charges and their hand to hand fighting skills, but along with this, they also had the reputation of being the worst plunderers in the British army, in the words of the military historian Arthur Bryant 'The 88th were a tough crowd from the bogs of Western Ireland with a bad reputation for filching Portuguese chickens and goats, but they were born fighters, and their Scottish Colonel Alexander Wallace, had made them one of the crack regiments of the army' 'Rangers of Connaught, it is not my intention to expend any powder this evening, we'll do this business with the cold iron' General Picton, 19th January 1812, before the storming of Cuidad Rogrigo
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