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While regiments were known by the name of their colonel, or by their royal title, the number of their rank was increasingly used. Thus, in the Cloathing Book of 1742, which illustrated the patterns of uniforms worn by the King's forces, the regiments of foot are designated simply by numbers.
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 ...
2.1 Foot guards. 2.2 Line infantry and rifles. 2.3 Airborne infantry. 2.4 Special operations. ... This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Armed ...
Regiments of Foot, (Infantry of the Line) are line infantry regiments part of the army.[2] [3]1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot - 4 Battalions from 1804-1816, then 3 until 1817 then 2
Pages in category "Regiments of Foot of the English Army" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
5th Regiment Falster Regiment of Foot: 1747 1 August 1976 merged into Danish Life Regiment: 6th Regiment Funen Life Regiment: 1614 1 November 1991 merged into Schleswig Regiment of Foot: 7th Regiment Jutlandic Regiment of Foot: 1675 1 November 1961 merged with King's Regiment of Foot into King's Jutlandic Regiment of Foot: 8th Regiment Queen's ...
The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry [1] [3] [10] (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments. [35]) Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars [1]
The regiment formed as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot during a rebellion in 1685 by the Duke of Monmouth against King James II. [1] After James was deposed during the "Glorious Revolution" that installed William III and Mary II as co-monarchs, the regiment's commanding officer, the Duke of Berwick, decided to join his royal father in exile. [2]