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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]
{{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 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 ...
Since reforms in 1747 each infantry regiment carried two colours, or flags, to identify it on the battlefield: a king's colour of the union flag and a regimental colour of the same colour as the regiment's facings. The colours were regarded as talismans of the regiment and it was considered a stain on the unit's honour if they were captured.
The 92nd Regiment of Foot, also known as the Yorkshire Rangers, was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in 1779 to provide garrison troops for the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War. [1]
Colonels of the regiment were: [12] 1881–1890: (1st Battalion): Gen. John Thomas Hill (ex 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot) 1881–1884 (2nd Battalion): Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley (ex 92nd Gordon Highlanders) 1884–1895 (2nd Battalion only to 1890): Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB; 1895–1897: Lt-Gen. Charles Edward Parke Gordon, CB
The Kings's colour of Barrell’s Regiment of Foot that was carried at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. National Museum of Scotland, accession number M.1931.299.2 [1]. Prior to 1743, each infantry regiment of the British Army was responsible for the design and quantity of standards carried, often with each company having its own design.