An Account of the Scottish Regiments, With the Statistics of Each, From 1808 ...
An Account of the Scottish Regiments, With the Statistics of Each, From 1808 ...
Mackerlie, P. H. (Peter Handyside)
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in his wars with the Leaguers, and was constituted a Regiment in January 1633. Returned from the Continent in 1661, and obtained rank in the British army from that date. Styled the "Royal Regiment" in 1684. Divided into 1st and 2d battalions in 1686. In 1804, the 1st and 2d battalions being in the West Indies, 3d and 4th battalions were embodied at Hamilton, near Glasgow. In 1812, styled "1st Regiment, or Royal Scots." In 1821, changed to " 1st, or the Royal Regiment of Foot." During the Penins...ular and Waterloo campaigns, this Regiment Digitized by VjOOQ IC 20 therefore had four battalions serving in diflferent parts of the world. In some of them there were many Scotsmen ; but we will confine ourselves to the 3d battalion, as it alone served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. The other battalions were then in the East and West Indies. By the Kegimental Kecord Book for the 3d battalion, from 1804 to 1817, the names of 1087 men are recorded, viz. : — 197 Scots, 404 English, 464 Irish, 22 Foreigners.
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