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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.
76th (Hindustan) Regiment of Foot - Became Hindustan in 1806, last in 1812 - 1 Battalion; 77th Regiment of Foot - Became East Middlesex in 1807 - 1 Battalion; 78th (Ross-Shire Buffs Highlanders) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1793-1796 and 1804-1816; 79th (Cameronian Highland Volunteers) Regiment of Foot - Cameron Highlanders in 1804 2 ...
The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
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]
76th Regiment of Foot (MacDonald's Highlanders) 1777–1784 [120] 1756 Raised 1777, disbanded 1784. [120] 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot 1787–1812 [120] 76th Regiment of Foot 1812–1881 [120] 1787 Raised by Honourable East India Company for service in India. [120] 1881: 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Royal ...
[41] [42] The 12th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 60th Brigade in the 20th (Light) Division in July 1915 for service on the Western Front [31] and took part in most of the same battles as the 10th and 11th battalions. The 12th battalion also took part in the action at Pietre, part of a subsidiary attack on the ...
92nd Gordon Highlanders at Edinburgh Castle, 1846. The regiment embarked for Jamaica in April 1819; [39] many of the troops died from yellow fever, before the regiment returned home in 1827. [40] The regiment embarked for Gibraltar in 1834 and went on to Barbados in 1841 [41] before returning home again in 1844. [42]