• The Royal Fencible American Regiment of Foot (or RFA) was a Loyalist battalion of infantry raised in 1775 to defend British interests in the colony of...
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  • fencible regiments during the Rebellion of 1798 where they fought in some pitched battles. The 3rd Argyllshire Regiment, who like some other fencible...
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    Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) (category Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Nova Scotia)
    New Brunswick) in November 1776. The fort's defenders, the Royal Fencible American Regiment led by Joseph Goreham, a veteran of the French and Indian War...
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    This is a list of British fencible regiments. The fencibles (from the word defencible) were British Army regiments raised in Great Britain and in the colonies...
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  • outbreak of war in 1812. The regiment, called at the time the Royal Newfoundland Regiment of Fencible Infantry, was significantly involved in the War of 1812...
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  • Hamilton Mackay (1914), An old highland fencible corps : the history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders, 1794-1802...
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    Also raised in Nova Scotia were the Royal Fencible American Regiment and the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment. The King's Orange Rangers defended Liverpool...
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    Joseph Goreham (category British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    Placentia in 1770. He also fought in the American Revolution, leading the Royal Fencible American Regiment and was also noted as the commander of British...
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  • Louisbourg. Fourteen other ranks of the Royal Fencible American Regiment took up land grants in Remsheg following the American Revolutionary War, as did the Westchester...
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  • The Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry, commonly known as the Canadian Regiment or the Canadian Fencibles, saw service in Upper and Lower Canada during...
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  • The Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps was formed in 1846, following the conclusion of the Northern War phase of the New Zealand Wars against Hone Heke....
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    John Breynton (category Royal Navy chaplains)
    he was Chaplain to the Royal Fencible American Regiment. He baptised many Blacks in Halifax who arrived after the American Revolution. He also purchased...
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    The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British...
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    Fort Beauséjour (category French forts in North America)
    335. In 1776, early in the American Revolutionary War, Fort Cumberland and its garrison of the Royal Fencible American Regiment repelled several rebel attacks...
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    Baylies of the Nova Scotia Fencibles Canadian units of the War of 1812 Military history of Nova Scotia Royal Fencible American Regiment Grandson of Otto William...
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    The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, also known as the Blues, or abbreviated as RHG, was one of the Cavalry regiments of the British Army, and part of the...
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  • The Royal Manx Fencibles was a fencible regiment of the British Army which was raised in the Isle of Man. Its duties included home defence, but it performed...
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    Battle off Liverpool, Nova Scotia (1778) (category Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War involving France)
    Sergeant and eight soldiers from the Royal Fencible American Regiment and the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment. Another privateer raid on Liverpool...
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    Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry is carried on in the Canadian Army by the Royal 22e Régiment. A modern re-enactment unit is the re-created Regiment of...
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  • Crean Brush (category Loyalists in the American Revolution from New Hampshire)
    was to be on the same terms, as to pay and gratuity, as the Royal Fencible American Regiment, a corps just organized. The result is to be inferred from...
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    4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards 1st (Royal) Dragoons...
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    monument The Royal Newfoundland Regiment of Fencible Infantry's lineage is perpetuated by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The 16th Infantry refers to a...
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    manned by the Loyalist Royal Fencible Americans. They repelled two assaults by Eddy's men, and were later joined by elements of the Royal Highland Emigrants...
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    Angle-irons – Royal Anglian Regiment (humorous malapropism) The Armoured Chavalry – Royal Tank Regiment The Armoured Farmers – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (raised...
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    from 1897) Royal Regiment of Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Horse Artillery Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Royal Scots (Lothian...
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    Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (category 1749 establishments in North America)
    John Adams; son Peter Jr. fought with Joseph Gorham in the Royal Fencible American Regiment against the Eddy Rebellion; another son was Benjamin Etter]]...
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    The Royal Nova Scotia Regiment (Nova Scotia Fencibles) was a battalion of infantry raised in 1793 to defend British interests in the colony of Nova Scotia...
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    The 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) was a British regiment in the American Revolutionary War that was raised to defend present day Ontario...
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    Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch (category Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    during the American War of Independence, he raised a regiment of Fencibles at Dalkeith, the South Fencible Regiment or 'Southern regiment of Fencible Men' on...
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    The 1st (Halifax-Dartmouth) Field Artillery Regiment, RCA, is a Canadian Army reserve artillery regiment. It is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at 73...
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