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From: "thommo" <>
Subject: Re: KING'S OWN ROYAL REGIMENT 18TH CENTURY
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:42:02 +1200


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Date: Monday, 2 August 1999 4:48 PM
Subject: KING'S OWN ROYAL REGIMENT 18TH CENTURY

>Thanks Laura and Ian happy to oblige,here goes part two.
>
>The War of the Spanish Succession started in 1702 and the regt was placed
on
>the Marine establishment in 1703,taking part in the capture and defence of
>Gibraltar ,and gained their second battle honour.
>Service on the eastern coast of Spain followed,with the regt at
>Barcelona1705,Alicante 1706,Marjorca 1706,Sardinia and Marjoca 1708,plus a
>few skirmishes.
>In 1710 the regt returned from the Marine to the Army establishment as The
>Queen's Own Regiment.
>At the end of August 1711,having been ordered to Canada,the expedition was
>wrecked during a gale in the St Lawrence River and over 200 of the regt and
>their families perished
>
>In July 1715 King George 1st conferred on the regt its new title of The
>King's Own Regiment.
>
>In 1745, the regt was known as Barrell's after General William Barrell,
>it also received the title 4th of foot(I think its known as the P.B.I.s
now,
>the poor bloody infantry)joined General Wade's army in pursuit of the
>Jacobite army of Charles Stuart.Fighting at Clifton Moor and
>Falkirk,preceded the battle of Culloden 16th April 1746.
>The regt remained in Scotland until 1751 and in that year it was so ordered
>that the K.O.R.R. was the fourth in seniority of the line of regiments.
>
>A second battalion was raised in 1756 which two years later became the 62nd
>foot(Wiltshire Regiment).
>
>Service in the West Indies followed for the K.O.R.R. with the gaining of
its
>third battle honour Guadeloupe in 1759,before a move to Boston in 1774.
>During the American War Of Independance it fought at Lexington,Bunker
>Hill,New York and Germantown.The regt went to Florida in November 1778 and
>then on to the West Indies.
>
>

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