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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.
42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1780-1786 and 1804-1812 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot - Became Light Infantry in 1803 - 2 Battalions 1804-1817 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1803-1816
The Canadian Fencibles first received scholarly attention when Scottish popular historian John Prebble featured the regiment's 1804 mutiny in his 1975 book Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt. Canadian historian Robert Henderson also explored the history of the unit in a series of articles, several of which appeared in Military Illustrated in ...
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 ]
history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans: with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart papers. Vol. 4. A. Fullarton and Co. pp. 378–381. Hitsman, J. Mackay (1999). The Incredible War of 1812. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 1-896941-13-3. Johnston, Winston (1998). The Glengarry Light Infantry, 1812–1816 ...
A Utah man is said to have killed his son following an argument on Christmas Eve, in which he accused him and his fiancée of "withholding information" about his wife’s alleged affair.
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The 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Memorial is a monument in Toronto's Queen's Park, in Ontario, Canada. [1] The monument was erected in 1923. [2]