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SIR MANLY POWER. English, March. At one time the regimental march past of the 57th Regiment (West Middlesex), until their local General ordered them to discontinue it as he considered it to be: “All drum and damned noise!” (David Murry, Music of the Scottish Regiments, 1994). The old 57th was amalgamated into The Middlesex Regiment in 1881, and in 1896 the 1st battalion was reauthorized to revert to “Sir Manly Power.”

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-'''SIR MANLY POWER.'''  English, March. At one time the regimental march past of the 57th Regiment (West Middlesex), until their local General ordered them to discontinue it as he considered it to be: “All drum and damned noise!” (David Murry, '''Music of the Scottish Regiments''', 1994). The old 57th was amalgamated into The Middlesex Regiment in 1881, and in 1896 the 1st battalion was reauthorized to revert to “Sir Manly Power.”  Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power (1773-1826) was a British military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He is chiefly remembered for leading a brigade of Portuguese troops under The Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War.
+[[File:Sirmanly.jpg|thumb|Sir Manly Power, after Henry Raeburn]]'''SIR MANLY POWER.'''  English, March. At one time the regimental march past of the 57th Regiment (West Middlesex), until their local General ordered them to discontinue it as he considered it to be: “All drum and damned noise!” (David Murry, '''Music of the Scottish Regiments''', 1994). The old 57th was amalgamated into The Middlesex Regiment in 1881, and in 1896 the 1st battalion was reauthorized to revert to “Sir Manly Power.”
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