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The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot as the 1st and 2nd battalions; the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia became the 3rd (Reserve) and 4th (Extra Reserve) battalions and the ...
The formation of the regiment was prompted by the expansion of the army as a result of the commencement of the Seven Years' War.On 25 August 1756 it was ordered that a number of existing regiments should raise a second battalion; among those chosen was the 8th Regiment of Foot.
Carlisle Castle; garrisoned by the regiment in December 1745. The nucleus was provided by English officers and men from the Duke of Perth's Regiment, plus 39 Catholics recruited by John Daniel, of Kirkham, Lancashire. [4] Provisionally titled the "English Regiment," it was subsequently renamed "Manchester" to "please and content the town". [5]
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). Website. ISBN 9780190249632. Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0; History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German)
During the American Revolutionary War, Delaware raised several units of militia in support of the Patriot side of the war. In the War of 1812 , all of the Delaware volunteer units saw combat at Lewes , where they comprised the majority of an American force that drove off a Royal Navy squadron seeking control of the Delaware River. [ 5 ]
This category contains articles relating to the Manchester Regiment, extant between 1881 and 1958, and the units which formed it. The unit was merged into the King's Regiment in 1958. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Manchester Regiment .
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.
John Stark. John Stark was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire [1] (at a site that is now in Derry) in 1728.His father, Archibald Stark (1693–1758) [2] was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to parents who were from Wiltshire, England; [3] Stark's father met his future wife when he moved to Londonderry in Ireland. [4]