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Alan Cameron of Erracht, founder of the regiment Memorial in Inverness to the Cameron Highlanders who fell during the Anglo-Egyptian War. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) on 17 August 1793 at Fort William by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht, [2] [3] a cousin of Cameron of Lochiel. [4]
Thus the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada became simply, the Cameron Highlanders of Canada. In order to perpetuate the regiment's accomplishments during the First World War, the regiment was reorganized as three battalions: the 1st Battalion "43rd Battalion CEF", 2nd (Reserve) Battalion (174th Battalion CEF) and 3rd (Reserve) Battalion (179th ...
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Civil War - 79th Infantry Regiment History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, newspaper clippings, and national color for the 79th New York Infantry Regiment. Cameron Highlanders of the Northwest website. 79th New York Volunteer Infantry on Electric Scotland
Cameron was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1796. Devastated by fever, the 79th was eventually withdrawn from the West Indies and rebuilt in Guernsey 1798. Cameron again served under York in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. The 79th was in garrison in Houat in 1800, then joined Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt and Minorca ...
Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht raised the 79th or Cameron Highlanders in 1793. [1] He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant and led the regiment through the severe campaigns in Flanders from 1794 to 1795. [1] In 1797 the regiment was broken up and two hundred and ten men joined the Black Watch regiment. [1]
At the outset of the Civil War, James Cameron decided to serve as a matter of duty and he proceeded to Washington, D.C. [1] The 79th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, known as the "Highlanders" because its initial core militia companies were composed mostly of Scotsmen or men of Scottish descent, was one of the earlier units to arrive in Washington, D.C., after President Lincoln called for ...
The 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF was a unit of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force.It was organized at Valcartier on 2 September 1914 in response to the Great War and was composed of recruits from the 91st Regiment Canadian Highlanders, the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, the 72nd Regiment "Seaforth Highlanders of Canada", and the 50th Regiment "Highlanders".
79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army, raised in 1793; 79th Regiment of Foot (1757), a British Army unit that took part in the Seven Years' War; 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers), a British Army unit that saw service in the West Indies during the American Revolution