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The regiment was re-ranked as the 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in October 1798. [2] The regiment embarked for Holland in August 1799 and saw action at the Battle of Alkmaar in October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, an intervention which was aimed to overthrow the Batavian Republic, a French client republic. [9]
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 ...
92nd Regiment or 92nd Infantry Regiment may refer to: 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery; 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; American Civil War regiments. 92nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 92nd Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment
Since reforms in 1747 each infantry regiment carried two colours, or flags, to identify it on the battlefield: a king's colour of the union flag and a regimental colour of the same colour as the regiment's facings. The colours were regarded as talismans of the regiment and it was considered a stain on the unit's honour if they were captured.
The regiment was attached to District of the Kanawha, Department of the Ohio, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, Department of the Ohio, to February 1863. Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky , Department of the Cumberland , to June 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps , Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863 ...
Infantry units which remained in the British Isles during the war included the 2nd Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)), the 11th Foot (Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the 36th Foot at Herefordshire, the 39th Foot at East Middlesex, the 41st Foot ...
United States Colored Troops skirmishing in Dutch Gap, Virginia, 1864 Taylor, young drummer boy for 78th Colored Troops Infantry, in rags Taylor, young drummer boy for 78th Colored Troops Infantry, in uniform with drum Union soldier in uniform with family-recently Identified as Sgt Samuel Smith of the 119th USCT and family [1]
The 92nd Regiment of Foot, also known as the Yorkshire Rangers, was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in 1779 to provide garrison troops for the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War. [1]