Regiment was now assigned a number, based on precedence or seniority in theĪrmy list Colonel Peregrine Hopson’s Regiment became the 29th Regiment of Reforms driven by the increasing professionalisation of the military, each Names when transferred from one to another and were disbanded as soon as Previously, regiments were considered the property of their Colonel, changed The town of Halifax, Nova Scotia during Father Le Loutre’s War.Ī significant organisational change occurred in 1751 Of Aix-la-Chapelle returned Louisbourg to France in 1749, it helped establish The regiment remained in North America after the 1748 Treaty
In response, officers were ordered to carry swords and sideĪrms even off duty, leading to the nickname, the Ever Sworded. In 1746, 27 soldiers died in the Port-la-Joye Massacre, in part because Stronghold of Louisbourg in October 1745. Including the Siege of Gibraltar during the 1727-1729 Anglo-Spanish War.ĭuring the 1740-1748 War of the Austrian Succession, it wasīased in British North America and helped capture the French North American Winding down, it became part of the Gibraltar garrison. Mark Kerr became Colonel when Farringdon died in October 1712, but with the war
Of Ramillies in May 1706 and the siege of Ostend in June. Too late for the Blenheim campaign, it fought at the Battle While intended for the West Indies, a notoriously unhealthy posting,įarringdon’s protests meant instead it joined Marlborough’s army in Flanders in Ryswick, it was reformed in 1702 when the War of the Spanish Succession began
Years War by Colonel Thomas Farrington as Thomas Farrington’s Regiment of Foot. The regiment was formed on 16 February 1694 during the Nine Colonel Thomas Farrington Founding Colonel of the Regiment
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