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...
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73rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1780. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 42nd Regiment of Foot...
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Black Watch (redirect from Black Watch of the Royal Highlanders Regiment)
in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot. It was known as...
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This is a list of numbered regiments of foot of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1881, when numbering was abandoned. Foot was the contemporary...
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Duncan Cameron (British Army officer) (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
joined the British Army in 1825. Commissioned into the 42nd Regiment of Foot, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel by 1854 and was a battalion commander...
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Regimental tartan (category Scottish regiments)
The first true Highland regiment of the British Army was the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) formed by amalgamation of the IHCs in 1739, and had...
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42nd Regiment, 42nd Infantry Regiment or 42nd Armoured Regiment may refer to: 42nd Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army up to 1881, known as the...
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John Small (British Army officer) (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) during the American Revolution. After the war, he settled with many of the men of the 84th Regiment in...
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captaincy in the 42nd Highland Regiment in 1771. He saw action during the American Revolutionary War; in 1775, he was appointed a major of the 53rd, and...
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Samuel McGaw (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
forces. McGaw was about 36 years old, and a lance-sergeant in the 42nd Regiment of Foot (later The Black Watch Royal Highlanders), British Army during the...
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Alexander Thompson (VC) (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
forces. Thompson was about 34 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 42nd Regiment of Foot (later The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)), British Army during...
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wing of the 42nd Regiment of Foot. A confused fight ensued in the ruins, in which the French troops were all either killed or captured with the 42nd taking...
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The colour had initially been captured by Sergeant Sinclair of the 42nd Regiment of Foot but after Sinclair fell in battle, a French officer recovered...
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James Abercrombie (British Army officer, born 1732) (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
Abercrombie was made Lieutenant of the 1st Foot. On 16 February 1756, he was promoted to the rank of Captain of the 42nd Foot. With this rank he served in...
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Ogilvy of Airlie and 4th Lord Ogilvy of Alith and Lintrathen. He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch). Between...
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as the 71st Regiment of Foot in 1786 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, raised as the 2nd Battalion, 42nd Regiment of Foot in 1780, re-numbered as the...
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James Davis (VC) (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
enlisted Davis was approximately 23 years old, and a private in the 42nd Regiment of Foot, later The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), British Army during...
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Duncan Campbell (died 1758) (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
Louis Stevenson in Scribner's Magazine December 1887. Campbell's 42nd Regiment of Foot Highlanders took many casualties in the ill-fated attack on Fort...
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(band), a rock band 42nd Regiment of Foot, the official title of the Black Watch regiment from 1739 to 1881 Black Watch, a type of tartan Search for "black-watch"...
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The Black Boys rebellion (category History of Pennsylvania)
of a letter from Carlisle, March 14, 1765". Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser. "Deposition of Sgt. Leonard McGlashan. 42nd Regiment of Foot,...
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the Ashantis after strong resistance. The attack was led by the 42nd Regiment of Foot. At Amoaful, one combat post-mortem pays tribute to the Ashanti...
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78th Fraser Highlanders (redirect from 78th Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders))
The 78th Regiment, (Highland) Regiment of Foot also known as the 78th Fraser Highlanders was a British infantry regiment of the line raised in Scotland...
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Robert Henry Dick (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
Regiment. He was a lieutenant in the 42nd Regiment of Foot in 1804. He served as an officer in the 42nd Regiment of Foot serving in the Peninsular War. He...
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enlisted in the British Army as an ensign in the 42nd Highlanders in March 1855, with promotion to the rank of lieutenant coming without purchase in August...
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attack was led by the 42nd Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant Mark Sever Bell won the Victoria Cross during the action. Victoria Crosses of the Ashanti War 1873-74...
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the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (also known as the Black Watch Regiment) and served under James Wolfe. He was wounded in the Battle of Carillon...
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Norman MacLeod (British Army officer) (category 42nd Regiment of Foot officers)
after, made lieutenant-colonel with the 42nd Highlanders. In 1781, he sailed with the battalion for the Cape of Good Hope but the expedition passed on...
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Duncan Millar (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
in the face of the enemy. He was 34 years old and a private in the 42nd Regiment, (later The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), British Army during the...
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Walter Landor Dickens (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
listed with the rank of lieutenant. He served in the 26th Native Infantry Regiment, and was attached to the 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) with...
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William Gardner (VC) (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Commonwealth forces. He was 37 years old, and a colour-sergeant in the 42nd Regiment of Foot (later The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)), British Army during...
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