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XXVlll HOUSE OF GORDON.
The test of the fighting qualities of the Gordons is not exhausted
by the number of men under arms actually bearing the name of Gordon.
Another useful inde.x which may be applied is the extraordinary energy
which the Gordons have displayed in raising troops. Everybody will at
once think of the Gordon Highlanders. But the regiment of to-day is
only one of a series of troops raised by the Gordon family. Putting
aside the unique achievement of "Chinese" Gordon, we get: —
1632 — George, 2nd Marquis of Huntly, 1710, raised a company for service in France.
1637 — Alexander (1656). son of Sir Alexander Gordon, of Navidale, raised a company
for service in Sivedcn,
1642 — George, 2nd Marquis of Huntly, 1710. sent 40 men to Irvine's Regiment lor
France.
1642 — William, of TuUoch, 1828 (with Robert Keith), raised men for Douglas's Regiment
for France.
1643 — John, of Craig, 1757 (with — Gordon, yr. of .^rradoul, and Donald Farquharson),
raised So men for service in France.
1650 — John, Earl of Sutherland, 833, raised 1000 men to assist Leslie.
1653 — Robert, 4th Viscount of Kenmure, 1180. raised men for Glencairn's rising.
1715 — Alexander, 2nd Duke of Gordon, 2053, and Alexander, of Auchintoul, 1658, 2054.
raised men for the first Jacobite Rising.
1745 — Lord Lewis, 2134. John, of Glenbucket, 2110. and John, of Avochie, 2115. raised
men for the second yacobite Rising.
1747— Robert, of the Gordonstown family, 1193, raised an Independent Company for
the H.E.I.C.
'759-^5— Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon, 164- raised the Sgih Regiment.
1775-83 — Alexander, 4th Duke, 164. assisted by his wife, Jane Maxwell, raised a company
of Fraser Highlanders for her brother Captain Max\vell.
1778-83 — the Hon. WiUiam, 1397, son of the 2nd Earl of .Aberdeen and cousin of the 4th
Duke of Gordon, 164i raised the 8is/ Regiment.
1778-83 — Alexander, 4th Duke, 164, raised the Northern Fencibles.
1790 — George, 5th Duke, 519. raised a company for the Black Watclt.
1793-96 — Alexander, 4th Duke, 164. raised the Northern Fencibles.
1794— Alexander, 4th Duke, 164. raised the looth Regiment, now 2nd battalion, Gordon
Highlanders.
1826 — Sir John Bury, of Park, 1018, raised a regiment of cavalry in Hyderabad, now the
20th Lancers (Gordon's Horse), Indian Army.
1846 — Major Patrick, Cairnfield family, 1142. raised the i^th Liidhiana Sikhs.
1857 — Lieut. John, 996, belonging to an English ecclesiastical family, raised, at Asigarh,
a body of Volunteers during the Indian Mutiny.
1857 — Col. W. G. Gordon-Cumming, Gordonstown family, 1534, raised the Bhecl Police.
1867 — Rev. Charles Menzies, Minmore family, 1690, raised 60 men for the Papal Zouaves.
Troops raised fy the Gordon Family.