The 99th Regiment of Foot was an infantry

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of the

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, raised on 10 February 1794 by Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Douglas (died 30 Jun 1795) and numbered as the 99th Foot in October of the same year. Douglas was succeeded as commanding officer by Lieutenant-Colonel William Gardiner. Lieutenant-Colonel James Smith Baillie took command in September 1794 and Lieutenant-Colonel

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took command in November 1794. Between April and July 1794, the regiment was stationed on the

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. The regiment was dispatched to the West Indies, serving in

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and taking part in the capture of the Dutch colony of Demerara in 1796. They were disbanded in Demerara in 1797, with the men drafted into the

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