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Much larger numbers of troops of the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of the Foot arrived on troopship HMS Vulcan in January 1864, together with two companies of the 2nd Baloochees from the Bombay Native Infantry. A Royal Marine battalion arrived on 25 May 1864, aboard HMS Conqueror, bringing garrison troop numbers in that year to 1,700.
The regiment served as Marines aboard Royal Navy ships in 1703 (and again in 1718–18, April 1742 (details only), and 1756–57). In 1747 the regiment was known as the Royal English Fuziliers and was given the precedence of 7th in the Infantry of the Line. On 1 July 1751 it was redesignated as the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers).
At the former engagement, James Wolfe served as acting adjutant of the regiment. He later fought with it against the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746. In 1751, the regiment was given a new title, the 20th Regiment of Foot, reflecting its position in the line infantry order of precedence.
East Devonshire Regiment of Foot, 1782-1881 (Also known as) Date: 1782-1881: History: Prior to 1782: 20th Regiment of Foot. 1782-1881: 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot. 1881: became Lancashire Fusiliers. Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central) References: Swinson, Regiments and Corps..., 1972; NCA Rules: Name ...
The Staffordshire Volunteers, which had been raised in 1798, chose to be merged with the 80th Foot, which became the 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers). In the same year the 80th sailed back to India, again suffering shipwreck on the journey. They remained in India until 1817, fighting in the Second Anglo-Maratha War of 1803-1805 ...
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms of 1881, it became ...
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United States as 'The French and Indian War.'. Subsequently numbered the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment ...
