John Enys – Retirement

On 20 March 1800, John Enys retired from the active life of a soldier. He was give an expensive inscribed sword from the officers of the 29th Regiment in which he had served for all of his 25 years in the Army.



On 20 March 1800, John Enys retired from the active life of a soldier. He was give an expensive inscribed sword from the officers of the 29th Regiment in which he had served for all of his 25 years in the Army. This was not usually the case as officers would often move from regiment to regiment to advance their military career. John never married and after retirement moved to Bath, where he often took the waters to help with his rheumatism and died on 30 July 1818.

In 1976, his journal he kept while in North America was published under the title "''The American Journal of Lt. John Enys''".


Adapted from the Wikipedia article John Enys, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki








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