Excerpt from Publication Committee
This military expedition to Carthagena, the Spanish stronghold on the north coast of South America, is of interest in American history in that it was the first occasion to employ American troops outside their own Continent in a war between Great Britain and one of the most powerful European nations.
According to Smollett, the novelist (who served as a surgeons mate in one of Admiral Vernon's ships on this expedition and wrote an account of it), the suggestion to raise troops in America came from Colonel Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, a colony which was conspicuous for enthusiasm in answering the call for volunteers.
Directions were issued for raising four battalions of Americans, to be commanded by Governor Spotswood, who was appointed second in command of the British military force and Quartermaster General. His instructions for raising the regiment are dated 5 April 1740.
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