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72nd Regiment of Foot [1745-1746, 1756-1763] |
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| 1745 | The Earl of
Berkeley's Regiment of Foot ranked as 72nd Foot |
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| 1746.01 | disbanded | |
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| 1758.04.28 | 72nd Regiment
of Foot formed by redesignation of 2nd Battalion, 33rd Regiment of Foot |
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| 1763 | disbanded | |
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| 1745 | raised | ||||||
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| 1746.01 | disbanded | ||||||
| 1756.09.01 | raised | aaa | |||||
| 1758.08.08 | French coast: Cherbourg | aaa | |||||
| 1758.09 | England | ||||||
| 1761.04 | French coast: Belleisle | ||||||
| 1761.06 | England | ||||||
| 1762.06 | West Indies: Cuba | ||||||
| 1763 | disbanded | ||||||
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| Uniform: | 1745-1746: 1758-1763: scarlet; facings: white; lace: white (2 red and 1 black stripe) |
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| 1745 | Augustus (Berkeley), 4th Earl of Berkeley [to 1746] | |
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| 1758.05.09 | F.M. Charles (Lennox), 3rd Duke of Richmond & Lennox, KG [to 1763; also R Horse Gds; MGO 1782-95] | |
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