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James Smith (November 26, 1737 – April 11, 1813 [1]) was a frontiersman, farmer and soldier in British North America. In 1765, he led the " Black Boys ", a group of Pennsylvania men, in a nine-month rebellion against British rule ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War .
Lt Col Robert Smith: ... The Black Watch was the last British military unit to leave Hong Kong in 1997, ... James (1 January 1999). The Black Watch or, ...
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.
The Black Boys Rebellion, Smith's Rebellion or Allegheny Uprising, was an armed uprising between citizens of the Province of Pennsylvania and the British Army between March 5 and November 18, 1765. The nine-month uprising began when a wagon train loaded with illegal "warlike goods" was discovered at Pawling's Tavern (south of Greencastle ...
The first true Highland regiment of the British Army was the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) formed by amalgamation of the IHCs in 1739, and had its own consistent uniform tartan (known as Black Watch, 42nd, or Government tartan) by 1749 or 1757 at the latest. Some later Highland units also wore this tartan, while others developed minor ...
In May 1765, Smith's men intercepted another pack train headed to Fort Pitt. After an exchange of shots with Smith's men at a local farmhouse, in which one man was wounded, soldiers from the fort confiscated their weapons and returned to Fort Loudoun. In November, Governor John Penn decided to transfer Fort Loudon's garrison to Fort Pitt. James ...
The 73rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1780. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 42nd Regiment of Foot to form the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in 1881.
Captain James Duncan Millar, The Black Watch. ... Lieutenant-Colonel John Logan Wilson-Smith (372318), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). ... Lieutenant-Colonel ...