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Raised 20 November 1739 as Charles Douglass's Regiment of Marines, from
1740 Jame's Cochrane's Regiment: ranked as 48th Foot or 5th Marines by
1741 as part of the British response to the War of Jenkin's Ear, one of
6 regiments raised for the purpose.
1739 raised in England
1740 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth)
1741 St. Rupert's Bay, Dominica
1741 Jamaica
1741 Cartagena
1741 Jamaica
1741 Cuba
1741 Jamaica
1747 In ranked as 48th Foot or 5th Marines, and transferred
to Admiralty control.
Disbanded 4 November 1748.
Col Charles was killed in combat at Cartagena on 23rd March 1741.
He was succeeded by Col. Grant, who was killed on 9th April 1741, and
then Col. Daniel who died from disease at Cartagena Harbour on 25th
April the same year. Lt Col. James Cochran took command, surviving both
the war and the climate. and who
commanded til 1748. Cochran had come to Cartagena with Col
Douglass's marines in which the mortality among commanding officers was
so high that at the end of the Cartagena campaign in April 1741, he was
fourth commander to have led the regiment in five weeks. Thereafter they
became known as Cockran's Marines.
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