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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]
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]
An ensign of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot with regimental colour, attended by a colour sergeant armed with a spontoon, 1813. The colours, flags, of a British Army infantry regiment serve to identify the unit and mark a rallying point for its troops.
92nd Regiment of Foot 1779–1783 [153] 1779 Raised 1779. Disbanded 1783. [153] 92nd Regiment of Foot 1794–1795 1793 Raised as George Hewett's Regiment of Foot 1793, numbered as 92nd in 1794, disbanded 1795. [153] 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot 1798–1861. 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot 1861–1881 [153] 1793
Colonels of the regiment were: [12] 1881–1890: (1st Battalion): Gen. John Thomas Hill (ex 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot) 1881–1884 (2nd Battalion): Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley (ex 92nd Gordon Highlanders) 1884–1895 (2nd Battalion only to 1890): Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB; 1895–1897: Lt-Gen. Charles Edward Parke Gordon, CB
92nd Regiment or 92nd Infantry Regiment may refer to: 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery; 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot;
The Kings's colour of Barrell’s Regiment of Foot that was carried at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. National Museum of Scotland, accession number M.1931.299.2 [1]. Prior to 1743, each infantry regiment of the British Army was responsible for the design and quantity of standards carried, often with each company having its own design.
The 92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry) (1760–1763) was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in Ireland in 1760 by the Earl of Ross at his own expense to help counter the Spanish Invasion of Portugal of 1762, an offshoot of the Seven Years' War.