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The regiment was re-ranked as the 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in October 1798. [2] The regiment embarked for Holland in August 1799 and saw action at the Battle of Alkmaar in October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, an intervention which was aimed to overthrow the Batavian Republic, a French client republic. [9]
Although the 'Gordon Highlanders' had existed as the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot since 1794, the actual 'Gordon Highlanders Regiment' was formed in 1881 by amalgamation of the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot and 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.
92nd Regiment of Foot 1779–1783 [153] 1779 Raised 1779. Disbanded 1783. [153] 92nd Regiment of Foot 1794–1795 1793 Raised as George Hewett's Regiment of Foot 1793, numbered as 92nd in 1794, disbanded 1795. [153] 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot 1798–1861. 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 1861–1881 [153] 1793
{{Information |Description={{en|1=The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; designed in 1793 by weaver William Forsyth of Aberdeen. With thinner black bands and with black guard lines added around the yellow over-check, it later became the main Clan Gordon pattern. It is essentially the Black Watch tartan but with a yellow ...
The barracks, which were built on the site of a 12th-century castle, were completed in response to a perceived threat from France between 1764 and 1796. [1] In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot and the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. [2]
The 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881.
{{Information |Description={{en|1=The tartan of the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. With black guard lines added around the yellow over-check, it later became the main Clan Gordon pattern. It is essentially the Black Watch tartan but with a yellow over-check on green, and with the single black over-check on blue converted to double ...
92nd Regiment of Foot (1793-1795), a British Army regiment 1793–1795 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot , a British Army regiment, renumbered from 100th Regiment in 1798 Topics referred to by the same term