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The battalion, still under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace made another bayonet charge at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811 and drove the French Army from the village. [16] It went on to fight at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 [ 17 ] and scaled the walls of the fortress at the Siege of Badajoz in April 1812. [ 18 ]
Throughout the period of the 52nd's existence, the British Army comprised both infantry and cavalry line regiments, as well as the Household Divisions.The regiments of the line were numbered and, from 1781, were given territorial designations – "Oxfordshire" in the 52nd's case – which roughly represented the area from which troops were drawn.
76th (Hindustan) Regiment of Foot - Became Hindustan in 1806, last in 1812 - 1 Battalion; 77th Regiment of Foot - Became East Middlesex in 1807 - 1 Battalion; 78th (Ross-Shire Buffs Highlanders) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1793-1796 and 1804-1816; 79th (Cameronian Highland Volunteers) Regiment of Foot - Cameron Highlanders in 1804 2 ...
Historical Records of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. London: Richard Bentley & Sons. Carter, Thomas (1861). Medals of the British Army and How They were Won: The Crimean Campaign. Groombridge & Sons, London. Farwell, Byron (1981). Mr. Kipling's Army: All The Queen's Men. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393304442. Greenwood, Adrian (2015).
The battalion went on to fight at the siege of Badajoz in March 1812. [28] At the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812 Lieutenant William Pearce of the 2nd battalion captured the French Imperial Eagle of the French 62nd Regiment. [29] The battalion also took part in the siege of Burgos in September 1812 and then returned home in June 1813. [30]
The New South Wales Corps, later known as the 102d Regiment of Foot, and lastly as the 100th Regiment of Foot, was a formation of the British Army organised in 1789 in England to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, which had accompanied the First Fleet to New South Wales.
During the course of the battle in the early hours of 14 June 1982, men of the 2nd Battalion "wearing berets instead of helmets" launched a bayonet charge on the redoubtable Argentinian defenders, which resulted in bitter and bloody fighting, and was one of the last bayonet charges by the British Army. [15]
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.