The King's American Regiment, also known as the "Associated Refugees", were a

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regiment during the

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. The King's American Regiment was raised on

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in the

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in December 1776 by Colonel Edmund Fanning as the "Associated Refugees". It served in the 1777 attacks on

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and Fort Montgomery, the Southern Campaign 1780–1781, the 1780

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, the 1781 raids on Newport and

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, and the 1781 Campaigns in

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and

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. The regiment was brought into the American Establishment, on March 7, 1781, and renamed the "4th American Regiment of Foot". The regiment later joined the British Regular Army, on December 25, 1782, possibly as the "110th Regiment of Foot", and was disbanded in

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in 1783.

References

External links

The Loyalist Collection, University of New Brunswick

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