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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.
On 21 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete Hans-Joachim Graf von Blücher attempted to resupply his brother, Oberleutnant Wolfgang Graf von Blücher, with ammunition when the latter and his platoon were surrounded by members of the British Black Watch. Hans-Joachim, who had arrived early morning with the second wave of paratroopers on his first ...
Detail from a painting showing 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) recruits being reviewed on Glasgow Green, c. 1758 42nd Regiment of Foot at Fontenoy, 1745 A Sentry at Ease, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1892 Major General Andrew Wauchope c.1899 The Black Watch in the Battle of Magersfontein, Second Boer War, 1899 Black Watch firing rifle grenade in 1917
President Biden is set to give remarks Friday honoring American veterans and their families a day before the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Biden is attending a special live ...
The Black Watch fielded 25 battalions and lost 8,390 officers and other ranks during the course of the war. [9] The regiment's territorial components formed duplicate second and third line battalions. As an example, the three-line battalions of the 5th Black Watch were numbered as the 1/5th, 2/5th, and 3/5th respectively.
Watch live as Joe Biden marks Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, 11 November. It will be the president's first public appearance with Kamala Harris since last week's election ...
President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks and participate in a wreath-laying ceremony in observance of Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery at 11am ET.
CreteTV (Greek: Κρήτη TV, romanized: Kríti TV) is a Greek regional television station, based in Heraklion. Its terrestrial transmission covers the region of Crete, while it also transmits via satellite through the Cosmote TV and Nova network.