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    Dillon's Regiment (French: Régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite...
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    Lord Mountcashel, Butler, Feilding, O'Brien, and Dillon's Regiment, commanded by Arthur Dillon. The French reformed them and disbanded Butler's and Feilding's...
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    Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon (1705–1787) was an Irish peer and a soldier in French service. He was the colonel proprietor of Dillon's Regiment, an...
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    Viscount, was a Colonel in the French Army, but Dillon's Regiment was disbanded in 1793 due to the turmoils of the French Revolution. His son Charles, the...
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    Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) was an Irish Catholic aristocrat born in England who inherited the ownership of a regiment that served France under the Ancien...
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  • Arthur Dillon, Count Dillon (1670–1733) was a Jacobite soldier from Ireland who served as colonel of Dillon's Regiment in the Irish Brigade in French service...
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    Charles Dillon, 10th Viscount Dillon (1701–1741) fought in the War of the Polish Succession for France under Berwick as colonel-proprietor of Dillon's Regiment...
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    his second son, Arthur Dillon. Both fought in the Williamite war in Ireland, but the second, Arthur Dillon's was sent to France with the Irish Brigade...
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    Stuart (mostly foreign troops) Minorca Regiment Régiment de Roll (French royalist/emigre) Dillon's Regiment (French royalist/emigre) 6th Brigade, commanded...
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    stems from Arthur Dillon (1750–1794), a soldier with Lafayette's troops in the American War of Independence. Serving with Dillon's Regiment, of the Irish...
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    was a distant cousin of general Arthur Dillon (who also had a brother named Theobald). He entered Dillon's Regiment as a cadet in 1761, gradually rose to...
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    1776 Régiment de Dillon Raised 1690 → 1791: 87ème régiment d’infanterie de ligne Dillon Dillon 1720 Dillon 1734 Dillon 1762 Dillon 1791 Régiment de Clare...
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  • List of military units named after people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Saladin Brigade – named after Saladin. Dillon's Regiment (France) – named after Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon. Dimitrov Battalion – named after Bulgarian...
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    June 1813, Roll's regiment was fighting in the Peninsular War, forming a joint battalion with Dillon's Regiment (another foreign regiment in British service)...
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    of the city) each night at 8 pm and made its way to the city centre via Dillon's Cross. On 11 December, IRA commander Seán O'Donoghue received intelligence...
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    gone to France as the colonel of Dillon's Regiment with the Irish Brigade in April 1690 when Irish troops were sent to France in exchange for French troops...
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    Élisabeth Françoise was the daughter of the Irish French general Arthur Dillon, commander of the Régiment de Dillon, and the Martinique creole Laure de Girardin...
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    Paddy Mayne (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    the re-formed 1st SAS Regiment. He subsequently led the SAS with great distinction through the final campaigns of the war in France, the Netherlands, Belgium...
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    two additional regiments. 914th Grenadier Regiment 915th Grenadier Regiment (as reserves) 916th Grenadier Regiment 726th Infantry Regiment (from 716th Infantry...
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  • The Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The regiment consists of four battalions, three in the Regular Force and...
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  • Régiment de Dillon (1698–1733) (renamed Régiment de Lee) Régiment de Dorrington (1698– ) (renamed Régiment de Roth) Régiment de Dublin Régiment de Feilding...
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    Irish Legion (category Irish regiments in French service)
    the kings of France. He and his father had served in Dillon's Regiment, and his mother's father and several uncles served in Clare's Regiment. In August...
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  • the remaining three regiments or sending them back to Ireland. The remaining three regiments, Mountcashel's, O'Brien's and Dillon's, formed the Irish Brigade...
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    Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (15th...
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    Basil L. Plumley (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    the member of 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment. He fought in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment. He participated in the Battle of Ia...
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    Battle of Abukir (1801) (category France–United Kingdom relations)
    On the left, the Brigade of Guards, (formed from a battalion of each regiment) The Corsican Rangers, The Royals and 54th. The landing force totaled 5...
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    Siege of Savannah (category Sieges of the American Revolutionary War involving France)
    Company of Foix Regiment Grenadier Company of Dillon's Regiment Grenadier Company of Guadeloupe Regiment Chasseur Company of Guadeloupe Regiment Battalion of...
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    were integrated into the line infantry of the French Army. Although the remaining Irish regiments: Dillon's, Berwick's and Walsh's, lost their distinctive...
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    each numbering 300 men, were led by Arthur Dillon, Édouard Dillon, and the comte de Noailles. Arthur Dillon's column was accompanied by an advance guard...
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  • Michael Lally (brigadier-general) (category Irish expatriates in France)
    Scotland. On emigrating to France, Lally joined Dillon's regiment. In 1745, after ten years service, he was made captain in the regiment named after his uncle...
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