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42nd Infantry Regiment (Poland)
42nd Regiment, 42nd Infantry Regiment or 42nd Armoured Regiment may refer to: United Kingdom * 42nd Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army up to 1881, known as the "Black Watch" * 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), a unit of the British Army Royal Engineers * 42nd Royal Tank Regiment, a World War II armoured unit of the British Army * 42nd Deoli Regiment, an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army United States * 42nd Infantry Regiment (United States), a unit of the US Army American Civil War regiments Union (northern) Army *42nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment *42nd Indiana Infantry Regiment *42nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment *42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment *42nd Ohio Infantry Regiment * 42nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment *42nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment Confederate (southern) Army * 42nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment * 42nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment * 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment Other nations * 42nd Armoured Regiment (India), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
42nd Regiment Of Foot
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 Highlanders or the Highland Regiment and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot. The 42nd Regiment was one of the first three Highland Regiments to fight in North America. In 1881 the regiment was named ''The Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)'', being officially redesignated ''The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)'' in 1931. In 2006 the Black Watch became part of the ''Royal Regiment of Scotland''. History Early history After the Jacobite rising of 1715 the British government did not have the resources or manpower to keep a standing army in the Scottish Highlands. As a result, they were forced to keep order by recruiting men from local Highland clans that had been loya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
