74th Regiment of Foot
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Infantry regiment of the British Army
The 74th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1758 to 1763.
It was formed raised in August 1756[1] at Newcastle upon Tyne as the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Regiment of Foot[2] and saw service in the British Expedition against Fort Louis.[3]
By an order signed on June 15th, 1758, the Battalion was renamed 74th Regiment of Foot.[4] After the success of the Goree expedition four companies of the new 74th were assigned garrison duty in Saint-Louis, Senegal. The others left in July 1758[5] and saw service in the Jamaica during the Second Maroon War.[2] They were disbanded in Jamaica in 1763.[1]
Uniform
Regimental Colonels
- 1758–1761: Maj-Gen. Hon. Sharrington Talbot
- 1761–1763: John Irwin
References
- 1 2 3 Franklin, Carl E. (2012). British Army uniforms from 1751 to 1783 : including the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence : including both cavalry and infantry, an illustrated guide to uniforms, facings and lace. Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-84884-690-6.
- 1 2 Chichester, Henry Manners; Burges-Short, George (1970). Records and Badges of the British Army. Muller. pp. 420 & 733. ISBN 978-0-584-10903-0.
- ↑ "1758 - British expedition against Fort Louis in Senegal - Project Seven Years War". www.kronoskaf.com. Project Seven Years War. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- 1 2 Lawson, Cecil C. P. (1941). A History of the Uniforms of the British Army. P. Davies. pp. 94–95.
- ↑ Todd, William (2001). The Journal of Corporal Todd, 1745-1762. Sutton Publishing for the Army Records Society. pp. 281 & 287. ISBN 978-0-7509-2778-9.
- "74th Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 18 July 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2016.