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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.
It has also been used as a uniform tartan by the reconstituted Atholl Highlanders honour guard from 1839 onward. There is no evidence of use of this pattern by the original Atholl Highlanders army regiment (1777–83), and a portrait of John, 4th Duke of Atholl, in Highland dress with his family in 1780 does not show this pattern.
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]
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 ...
English: This is probably the drummers' plaid tartan of MacLeod's Highlanders (73rd, later 71st, Regiment of Foot, raised 1777–78), and possibly also of two closely associated units that used the same main tartan as MacLeod's: the original Seaforth Highland Regiment (78th, later 72nd, raised 1778), and the 78th (Highlanders) also known as the Ross-shire Buffs, raised 1793, before they ...
The regiment was originally raised in Scotland amongst highlanders keen on emigrating to Canada in 1803–4. The unit was to see service only in British North America, however, misunderstandings regarding the terms of enlistment and rumours that the regiment would be sent to India caused the recruits to mutiny in Glasgow.
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 ...