Arriving on service in the Irish brigade of army of French king Louis of the Fifteenth, captain Richard Hennessy hardly assumed, that will glorify the name not on fields of battles, and in the stamp of the French cognac. Having got wound in fight at the Fontenua, the 26-year-old native of Ireland has been directed to restore health on river Sharant coast, in region Cognac.
The Irish Brigade wore red coats throughout the eighteenth century with different coloured facings to distinguish each regiment. In 1757 Bulkeley's Regiment had green facings, Clare's yellow Dillon's black and Roth's dark blue with white braiding.