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Argolas · « **on:** April 13, 2017, 04:13:41 am »

39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot

About the 39th

What is the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot? We are a small Regiment who play in NA Events. We are a NA Regiment, but we have many EU Player's as Members. We make only Events at the week, because we have many EU Player's. We are a Line Regiment who speak Englisch and we play only for Fun. If you like to Join a Discipline NW Regiment, add a Officer or NCO on Steam.

Full Roster:

Officer

Colonel

Captain Herakles

Lieutenant

Non-Commissioned

Serjeant Major

Sergeant

LanceCorporal

Enlisted

Grenadier

Corporal

Private

Recruit

In 1782 the regiment took a county title as the 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot. The regiment sailed for the West Indies took part in the capture of Martinique in March 1794, the capture of Saint Lucia in April 1794 and the attack on Guadeloupe in June 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. The British troops at Guadeloupe were forced to surrender in December 1794 and were held in captivity for over a year.The regiment was reformed in Ireland the following year by absorbing the short-lived 104th Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers). The regiment participated in a task force under Major-General John Whyte to capture the Dutch settlements of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice in April and May 1796. The regiment moved to Suriname in October 1800 to Barbados in December 1802 and then returned to England in March 1803.
In 1803 a 2nd battalion was raised. The 1st battalion moved in Naples in January 1806 and to Sicily shortly thereafter. In 1807 a number of regiments had their territorial affiliations shuffled, with the East Middlesex title passing to the 77th Foot and the 39th taking the Dorsetshire title previously held by the 35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot to become the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot.

The regiment arrived in the British colony of New South Wales toward the end of 1825 and saw service guarding convicts and establishing settlements at Hobart, Sydney, Swan River Colony and Bathurst before leaving for India in July 1832. It saw action at various skirmishes in spring 1834 during the Coorg War and at the Battle of Maharajpore in December 1843 during the Gwalior Campaign. It embarked for the Crimea in spring 1854 and saw action at the Siege of Sevastopol in winter 1854 before returning to Canada in 1856 and moving on to Bermuda in 1859; it returned to England in 1864 and was posted back to India in 1869.

Contact

Leading of the 39th

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Written by Herakles