James Marsh (British Army officer) explained

James Marsh
Death Date:	12 June 1804
Allegiance:	United Kingdom
Branch:	British Army
Rank:	General
Battles:	American Revolutionary War

General James Marsh (died 12 June 1804) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Marsh commanded the 43rd Regiment of Foot at Rhode Island in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.^[1] He remained in that post until October 1787 when he was asked to raise the 77th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot.^[2] He was promoted to major-general on 18 October 1793, to lieutenant-general on 9 January 1798 and to full general on 25 September 1803.^[3]

He served as colonel of the 77th Regiment of Foot from 1787 until his death in 1804.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Brigade Dispatch, Volume XXIV, No. 3 (Summer 1994). 16–18. 26 February 2017.
2. Web site: 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot . regiments.org . 30 July 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20061229235241/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/077-787.htm . 29 December 2006 .
3. Haydn's Book of Dignities (1851) p. 320.