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52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1803 [20] 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1803–1821 [20] 1755 Raised as 54th Regiment of Foot 1755, renumbered 52nd in 1757 on disbandment of existing 50th and 51st Foot. [20] 1881: 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry: The Rifles: 53: 53rd Regiment of Foot (10th Marines ...
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The regiment was re-raised in New England as the 50th Regiment of Foot (American Provincials) in December 1754 for service in the French and Indian War but, following the disastrous loss of Oswego, it was disbanded in December 1756.
The 108th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1794 to 1796. It was raised in Ireland in May 1794 as the Earl of Granard's Regiment, and numbered as the 108th in November of the same year. [1] Shortly thereafter the 108th moved to Gibraltar for garrison duty.
The 72nd Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army from 1758 to 1763. [1] It was formed on 28 April 1758 from the 2nd Battalion of the 33rd Regiment of Foot and took part in the Raid on Cherbourg in 1758 and the capture of Belle Isle in 1761. After further service in Cuba the regiment was disbanded in 1763. [2]
The 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881.
The regiment was raised in Northern England by Colonel William Whitmore as the 55th Regiment of Foot for service in the Seven Years' War. [2] It was re-ranked as the 53rd Regiment of Foot , following the disbandment of the existing 50th and 51st regiments, in 1756. [ 2 ]