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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.
86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot 1809–1812 [144] 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot 1812–1881 [145] 1794 Raised 1793 as Sir Cornelius Cuyler's Shropshire Volunteers, placed on regular establishment as 86th Foot in 1794. 1881: 2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles: Royal Irish Regiment: 87: 87th Regiment of Foot 1759–1763 (Keith ...
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 ...
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 ]
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]
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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.