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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.
The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
David Stewart of Garth CB FSA Scot FRSE FLS (12 April 1772 – 18 December 1829) was a Scottish soldier and later author and antiquarian, whose book, Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland [1] [2] published in two volumes by Archibald Constable and Co in Edinburgh in 1822, was responsible for largely creating the modern image of the Highlander, the ...
76th Regiment of Foot (MacDonald's Highlanders) 1777–1784 [120] 1756 Raised 1777, disbanded 1784. [120] 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot 1787–1812 [120] 76th Regiment of Foot 1812–1881 [120] 1787 Raised by Honourable East India Company for service in India. [120] 1881: 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Royal ...
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]
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The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1843 and saw action in the Seventh Xhosa War in 1846 [42] and the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 [43] before returning home in 1859. [44] In 1866, the regiment became the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot. [1] It took part in the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1867. [45]