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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.
When the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, to become the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Fife, Forfarshire, and Perthshire were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot to form two battalions of the newly named Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). The 42nd became the 1st Battalion, and the 73rd became the 2nd Battalion.
42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1780-1786 and 1804-1812 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot - Became Light Infantry in 1803 - 2 Battalions 1804-1817 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1803-1816
42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot 1758–1861 [74] [75] 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) 1861–1881 [76] 1739. Six Independent Highland Companies raised 24 April 1725. The Earl of Craufurd's Regiment was formed 25 October 1739 by the regimentation of the independent companies. [74]
The Forty Twas – 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot later Black Watch [1] [3] [10] The Forty-Tens – 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (from an incident in India where the men were 'numbering', or calling out their position in the ranks: after they reached 'forty-nine' the next man called out 'forty-ten'.) [4]
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - regiment formed in 1881 from the 42nd/43rd Highlanders Regiment until 2006. Black Watch - the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland formed in 2006. Loudon's Highlanders - Highland regiment formed in the 18th century. John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun - founder of the above regiment.
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