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Pages in category "British military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On 30 April 1782, the War Office notified Sir Guy Carleton, Commander in Chief of British forces in North America, that due to the death of Lieutenant General Fraser, the two battalions of the 71st were to be formed into two distinct units, the 71st Regiment under the command of Colonel Thomas Stirling of the 42nd Regiment, and the Second 71st Regiment under the command of the Earl of ...
This category includes individuals who died from any cause attributable to the American Revolutionary War, including disease, which was the primary killer. Military personnel who were killed in action or died of wounds received in battle are in the subcategory Category:Military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War.
The 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) was a British regiment in the American Revolutionary War that was raised to defend present-day Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada from the constant land and sea attacks by American Revolutionaries. [1]
Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a Scottish brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the New York and New Jersey campaign and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton. He was born in Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and studied medicine at the University of ...
Pages in category "Military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.
A set of bagpipes, believed to have been played at the mustering of the regiment in 1778 by one Piper MacCorquodale are in the collection of the National Museums of Scotland. [5] After the war, many of the soldiers settled in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.