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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.
English: The tartan of the band (musicians) of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) used at least as early as 1780 through to c. 1865, and also used by the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders bandsmen from c. 1830s to c. 1865 (both later switched to regular Black Watch tartan for musicians). The pattern is Black Watch with the black replaced by red.
Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (née Maxwell; 1748 or 1749 – 14 April 1812) was a Scottish Tory political hostess. Together with her husband Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon , and son George, Marquess of Huntly (the future 5th Duke of Gordon ), she founded the Gordon Highlanders , a British Army infantry regiment which existed until 1994.
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The battalion then embarked for North America for service in the War of 1812. [21] It saw action on the Canadian frontier in 1814 which later earned the battle honour 'Niagara'. [22] The battalion left for home in June 1815 but, shortly after arriving in England, it embarked for Ostend from where it marched to Paris. [23]
The regiment was originally raised in Scotland amongst highlanders keen on emigrating to Canada in 1803–4. The unit was to see service only in British North America, however, misunderstandings regarding the terms of enlistment and rumours that the regiment would be sent to India caused the recruits to mutiny in Glasgow.
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