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Regiments / 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot [OLD THREAD]

« on: March 27, 2017, 08:52:33 pm »

45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
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Introduction

His most Britannic Majesty's 45th Regiment of foot was raised on the 26th March 2017 by Vegetarian. It is a semi-serious competitive regiment that is English speaking and accepts all nationalities , Recruits have to attend one Line-battle and one training before becoming an official member of the regiment, so that you show you are dedicated enough to be active. So far the 45th is lead by Colonel Nova and boasts a Centre Company led by Major Flibbitt and a Grenadier Company led by CSM Maskman. Also to boast is an experienced cadre of NCOs who are invaluable in keeping good order in the line, such as C/Sgt Hanselsmitch (Line) and L/Cpls Cookiez (Line) , R1bazz (Gren) and Django (Line).
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Regimental History

Early wars
The regiment was raised by Colonel Daniel Houghton as Houghton's Regiment in 1741 for service during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was first posted to Gibraltar in 1745, before moving to Nova Scotia in 1747 for garrison duty. The regiment was ranked as the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1747 but was re-ranked as the 45th Regiment of Foot in 1751. The regiment fell victim to a raid on Dartmouth in May 1751 during Father Le Loutre's War when Mi'kmaq and Acadia militia from Chignecto, under the command of Acadian Joseph Broussard, raided Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, destroying the town, killing twenty British villagers and torturing and mutilating a sergeant from the 45th Foot. The regiment then defeated the local militia at the Battle of Fort Beauséjour in June 1755. The regiment also took part in the Siege of Louisbourg in July 1758 during the French and Indian War.

The regiment also saw action in North America during the American War of Independence, fighting at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 before returning to England in 1778. In 1782 the citizens of Nottinghamshire petitioned for the regiment to have the county name included in the regimental name: this was granted and the regiment became the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment. In March 1786 the regiment embarked for the West Indies and garrisoned Martinique, Dominica and Îles des Saintes during the French Revolutionary Wars. In May 1801, on the home journey, some 150 French prisoners aboard the ship, the Windsor, overpowered the guard, locked the officers in their cabins and took possession of the ship.

Napoleonic wars
In spring 1807 the regiment embarked on the disastrous British invasion of the River Plate: it saw action at the Second Battle of Buenos Aires in July 1807 but, in the face of defeat, discipline collapsed and eleven men of the regiment completely disappeared. However another unit of the regiment successfully charged the enemy, taking two howitzers and many prisoners.

The regiment embarked for Portugal in July 1808 to serve under General Sir Arthur Wellesley in the Peninsular War. The regiment fought at the Battle of Roliça in August 1808, the Battle of Vimeiro later that month and the Battle of Talavera, where it won the nickname "Old Stubborns", in July 1809. The regiment went on to fight at the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810 before falling back to the Lines of Torres Vedras. It saw action again at Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811, the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 and the Siege of Badajoz in March 1812 before fighting at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812 and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813. It then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of the Pyrenees in July 1813, the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813 and the Battle of Orthez in February 1814 as well as the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814. The regiment returned home in June 1814.


The Battle of Talavera, where the regiment won the nickname "Old Stubborns" in July 1809, by William Heath

The regiment was sent to Ceylon in January 1819 and to Burma in 1824 for service in the First Anglo-Burmese War. It formed part of an army which advanced up the River Irrawaddy to the Kingdom of Ava and then returned to England in March 1838.

The Victorian Era
n May 1838 the regiment took part in the Battle of Bossenden Wood, a skirmish between a small group of labourers from the Hernhill, Dunkirk, and Boughton area and a detachment of soldiers of the 45th regiment sent from Canterbury to arrest the marchers' leader, the self-styled Sir William Courtenay, who was actually John Nichols Tom, a Truro maltster who had spent four years in Kent County Lunatic Asylum.

The regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1843 and saw action in the Seventh Xhosa War in 1846 and the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 before returning home in 1859. In 1866, the regiment became the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot. It took part in the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1867.

As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 45th was linked with the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot), and assigned to district no. 27 at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment to form the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby).

Battle Honours
The regiment's battle honours were as follows:
Louisburg
Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D'Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula
Ava
South Africa 1846-47

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Ranks
Officers
Colonel [Col]
Lieutenant Colonel [LtCol]
Major [Maj]
Captain [Cpt]
Lieutenant [Lt]
Ensign [Ens]

Warrant Officers
Serjeant Major [SjtMaj]
Company Serjeant Major [CSM]

Non-Commissioned Officers
Colour Serjeant [CSgt]
Serjeant [Sjt]
Corporal [Cpl]
Lance Corporal [LCpl]
Acting Lance Corporal [aLCpl]

Other Ranks
KingsGuard [Kgd]
Kingsman [Kgm]
Guardsman [Gdm]
Veteran [Vet]
Regular [Rgl]
Private [Pte]
Recruit [Rct]

Specialists
Invite/Mercenary [Inv/Merc]
Field Surgeon [Surgn]
Drummer [Dmr]
Fifer [Fifr]
Bugler [Bgl]

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If you would like to join the Regiment add Nova or maybe even maskman on steam!

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Regiments / 89th Regiment of Foot

« on: September 11, 2016, 03:44:42 pm »

89th Regiment of Foot

The 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army, formed on 3 December 1793.

Its nickname was 'Blayney's Bloodhounds'. The nickname stems from 1798 when the regiment was under the command of Lord Blayney and became known for its unerring certainty and untiring perseverance in hunting down Irish rebels during that year's rebellion.

During the Napoleonic Wars the regiment served in Egypt in 1802, in Portugal and Spain in 1810, and in Java in 1811. When the regiment fought in the Peninsular War it was involved in the defeat at the Battle of Fuengirola of 1810. It particularly distinguished itself during the War of 1812 at the Battle of Crysler's Farm when it defeated several US regiments. It later fought in India and Burma in 1819-1826 during the Anglo-Maratha and Anglo-Burmese Wars, and in the Crimea in 1854-55.

The regiment amalgamated with the 87th Foot on 1 July 1881, to form the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Battle Honours

Egypt

Java

Niagara

Ava

Sevastopol

Roster

Officers

2nd Lieutenant Farts

Non Commissioned Officers

Regimental Sergeant Major Flasheart

Lance Sergeant Sir Alp

Rank and file

Private TheMadGolem

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Events / 13th LI Thursday Event (Cancelled)

« on: July 19, 2016, 12:03:37 am »

The 13th LI might be hosting a new AZW event on Thursdays at 8:00 British time

RULES

Don't Troll.

Respect Others and generally don't be a dick.

When 'Strategically withdrawing' stay together or we send the hounds after you.

Winchester Rifle is a big no no

Do not teamkill only regiment commanders can execute their own men

CLASSES

~~~Line Infantry-3/15-2/3 Slots depending on overall attendance~~~

Spoiler

May fire when 'Strategically withdrawing'
Must travel in line/Coloum
Must have 1 Officer (Max 2 officers)
No firing out of line unless running away.
May FiC but not RiC
May bring 1 combat sapper

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~~~Light Infantry-3/15-2 Slots~~~

Spoiler

May fire when 'Strategically withdrawing'
May have 5 man spacing
Must have 1 Officer (Max 2 officers)
May FiC and RiC
May bring 1 combat sapper

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~~~Artillery-3/10-1 slot~~~

Spoiler

Maximum 2 Cannon (Or 1 Cannon 1 Howitzer)
Must have 1 Officer (Max 2 officers)
Can have 1 combat sapper and 1 sapper)
Max 5 Arty Guards

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~~~Cavalry-3/10-1 Slot~~~

Spoiler

Must dismount to fire
Once dismounted same rules as Light Infantry
Must have 1 Officer

[close]

Regiments possibly attending.

~Line Infantry~

~Light Infantry~

13thLI

~Artillery~

~Cavalry~

Signup form

Code

[b]Regiment Name:[/b]
[b]Class:[/b]
[b]Detachment/Regiment leader steam name/link:[/b]
[b]Expected attendance:[/b]
[b]Weekly/one off[/b]
[b]Read and agreed to the rules[/b]

To get more info on this POSSIBLE event add https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198174899269

BE WARNED THIS EVENT IS A POSIBILITY NOT A CERTAINTY

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Regiments / 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot

« on: May 26, 2016, 08:09:28 pm »

13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot

Est. 26/5/2016

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Formation
The regiment was one of nine regiments of foot raised by James II when he expanded the size of the army in response to the Monmouth Rebellion. On 20 June 1685, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon was issued with a warrant authorising him to raise a regiment, and accordingly the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot was formed, mainly recruiting in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Original uniform of the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment in 1685

13th Regiment of Foot

By the late seventeenth century, each regiment of the standing army had been allotted a "rank" in the order of precedence. These numbers came to be increasingly used until a royal warrant of 1751 decreed that regiments should in future be known by their numbers only. Accordingly, Pulteney's Regiment became the 13th Regiment of Foot. The redesignated 13th Foot entered a thirty-year period of garrison service in England, Ireland, Gibraltar and Minorca.

13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot

It was at this time that the regiment's link to Somerset was first formed. On 21 August 1782, the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, Henry Seymour Conway, issued a regulation giving an English county designation to each regiment of foot other than those with a royal title or highland regiments. The intention was to improve recruitment during the unpopular war, and the Secretary at War, Thomas Townshend issued a circular letter to the lieutenants of each county in England in the following terms:

My Lord,
The very great deficiency of men in the regiments of infantry being so very detrimental to the public service, the king has thought proper to give the names of the different counties to the old corps, in hopes that, by the zeal and activity of the principal nobility and gentry in the several counties, some considerable assistance may be given towards recruiting these regiments".

The regiment duly became the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (the 40th Foot becoming the "2nd Somersetshire"). The attempt to link regimental areas to specific counties was found to be impractical, with regiments preferring to recruit from major centres of population. By June 1783, each regiment was again recruiting throughout the country, although the county names were to remain.

13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry)

In September 1822, the 13th Foot was moved to Chatham in Kent, where it was brought up to strength for service in India. While there, it was reconstituted as a light infantry regiment in December and was retitled as the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry).

13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot

The conduct of the 13th at Jalalabad was officially rewarded on 26 August 1842, when Prince Albert offered his patronage to the regiment and permitted his name to be used in its title, becoming the 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot. At the same time, the regimental facings were changed from yellow to (royal) blue, and the badge of a mural crown with a scroll inscribed "Jellalabad" was granted for display on the colours and uniform of the regiment. The unit was also honoured with the firing of a twenty-one gun salute at each army station it passed on its return to India.

The 13th Light Infantry returned to England in 1845 after 23 years of foreign service. Presented with new colours at Portsmouth in 1846, the regiment moved to Ireland in the following year, remaining there until 1850, before spending a year in Scotland. From 1851–1854, they were stationed in Gibraltar.

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13th Light Infantry in the Anglo-Zulu War

The 13th LI was part of both of Lord Chelmsford's Invastions of Zululand seeing action in both the Battle of Khambula and The Battle of Ulundi