'History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).' [‎390] (409/622)

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HISTOEY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
2nd Battalion 12th Regiment, who may be well calculated for
duties on board cruisers and boats, to the 1st Battalion of the
11th Regiment."*
In the following year we find the accompanying references
to the Marine Battalion. Extract from General Orders of the
7th of June, 1824. 64 In conformity with the General Order by
the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council at Fort
William, dated the 6th of May, 1824, and published to the
Army of this Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. on the 31st of May, the Honourable
the Governor in Council is pleased to notify that the Regiments
of European and Native Infantry are, from this date, divided
into two, numbered as regiments, and finally separated as
follows:—11th Regiment Native Infantry to form 21st, or
Marine, Regiment Native Infantry and 22nd Regiment Native
Infantry.
" The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct that
as a temporary arrangement until the pleasure of the Hon.
Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. be known, the second extra Battalion be
tranferred to the Line, under the designation of the 21st
Regiment of Native Infantry. The entire number of European
officers of the 21st, or Marine, Regiment, being removed to that
corps, the present 21st Regiment will, until further orders, be
termed the Marine Battalion of Native Infantry, and be com
manded by a major or captain, with an adjutant, interpreter,
and quartermaster.
u The Governor in Council is further pleased to autho
rize the 21st Regiment of Native Infantry being placed
in regard to strength of establishment, and in every other
respect, on the same footing as the other regiments of the
Line."
Three years later appears the following extract from General
Orders of the 26th of February. 1827 :— u The Hon. the
Governor in Council has received with great satisfaction, testi
monials of the highly meritorious services of a detachment of
the Marine Battalion, while employed in the late war in the
Burmese territory."
The detachment so honourably noticed, served on board the
Hon. Company's brig-of-war 'Vestal,' Lieutenant Guy, which
was employed during the whole of the war in the Burmese
Empire, under the immediate command of Commodore Ha^es,
who, in writing of their gallantry and good^ conduct, under
date the 2nd of October, 1826, says of the Marine Battalion :
" The corps in question is one of the oldest in India, and has
seen more arduous and more foreign service than any Native
llth Regiment Native Infantry, or that number may be completed by a draft
made in such a manner as wilfbe most advantageous to both Battalions.
* See Vol. I., p. 380.