Bragg was at the
Battle of Blenheim in the
1st Foot Guards on 10 March 1702. He appears to have afterward served in the
24th Foot, distinguished in all Marlborough's subsequent campaigns under the command of Colonel
Gilbert Primrose, who came from the same regiment of guards. The English records of this period contain no reference to Bragg, but in a set of Irish military entry-books, commencing in 1713, which are preserved in the
Four Courts,
Dublin, his name appears as captain in Primrose's regiment, lately returned from Holland to Ireland; his commission is here dated 1 June 1715, on which day new commissions were issued to all officers in the regiment in consequence of the accession of
George I. On 12 June 1732 Bragg was appointed master of the
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, in succession to Major-General Robert Stearne, deceased, and on 16 December following he became lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Robert Hargeave's regiment, afterwards known as the
31st Foot. On 10 October 1734 he succeeded Major-General
Nicholas Price as colonel of the
28th Foot, an appointment which he held for twenty-five years, and which originated the name "The Old Braggs", by which that regiment was popularly known. As a brigadier-general Bragg accompanied Lord Stair to
Flanders, where he commanded a brigade. He became a lieutenant-general in 1747, and in 1751 was appointed to the staff in Ireland. He died at
Dublin, at an advanced age, on 6 June 1759. leaving the bulk of his fortune of £7,000 to Lord
George Sackville. ==References==