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My English ancestor Jacob Horle (1790-1839) was in the 9th Regiment of Foot 1st or 2nd Battalion between the years of 1810 - 1820. I know he served in Canada around 1814-1816. I'm trying to find any information about the details of his service (and also the service of his old brother James Horle who likely served with him).
Thank You! -- Chris Rubeo
A quote regarding Jacob Horle's Regiment:
" Few days elapsed after the termination of the war in Europe, before the veterans of the NINTH were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to North America, where hostilities had commenced between Great Britain and the United States. From Bayonne, the regiment marched to Bordeaux, where it arrived on the 22nd of May (1814), and encamped seven miles below the town, until the 3rd of June, when it embarked in transports, but was removed on the following day to the York and Vengeur, seventy-four gun ships, in which it sailed for Canada. Arriving in the river St. Lawrence, the regiment was removed on board of transports, in which it proceeded to Quebec, from whence it continued its course up the river, and on the 22nd of August arrived at Montreal. After halting a week at Montreal, the NINTH marched up the country into cantonments on the left of the St. Lawrence, below Prescot, where they were stationed when the unsuccessful attack was made on the Americans near Plattsburg. In October the NINTH proceeded to Kingston. In the meantime many men had joined the second battalion at Canterbury, from prisoners of war and from sick absent, and two strong detachments arrived in America to join the first battalion. On the 20th of February, 1815, the second battalion marched from Canterbury to Chatham; in the summer it was removed to Sheerness, and it was afterwards encamped in the Isle of Sheppy.
Meanwhile peace had been concluded between Great Britain and the United States: and Napoleon Buonaparte had quitted the Isle of Elba, returned to France, and reascended the throne of that kingdom. These events occasioned the regiment to be ordered to return to Europe, where all the nations were arming to dispossess Buonaparte of the throne of France. Although the NINTH had no opportunity of signalizing themselves in action, during their stay in Canada, yet they displayed the valuable qualities of firm discipline, and unshaken fidelity to their Sovereign, country, and colours. In some corps desertion prevailed to a considerable extent, and tempting rewards awaited such soldiers as should reach the territory of the United States, which could be accomplished with little risk; but, notwithstanding all the temptations and facilities for desertion, not one soldier of the Ninth forsook his colours, an honourable boast, which only two corps, the NINTH and eighty-eighth, could make."
