About
The 82nd is a NA based regiment that plays Napoleonic wars.
The leader is Crazy8headshot and the roster is small but we hope to grow very fast to accomplish our goals as a regiment. If you would like to join pm crazy8headshot or add him on steam.
Contact Info
crazy8headshot Steam account
Regimental InfoRanksOfficer Ranks:Colonel-Col
Major-Maj
Captain-Capt
Lieutenant-Lt
Ensign-Ens
NCO Ranks:Regimental Serjeant Major-RSM
Serjeant Major-SjtMaj
Colour Serjeant-CSjt
Serjeant-Sjt
Corporal-Cpl
Enlisted Ranks:Lance Corporal-LCpl
Kings man-Kgm Chosen man-Csm
Regular-Rgl
Private-Pte
Cadet-Cdt
Officers:
Col-crazy8headshot
Enlisted:
Csm-firemonkey
Csm-secruity
Csm-mothy
We know we are new but we hope to grow very fast. Thank you.
Regimental Flag and TagsTags: 82nd_Rank_Name
Ex: 82nd_Col_Crazy8headshot
Regimental Flag(May be changed in the Future):2nd Page 3rd row 2nd Flag
Brief History of the 82nd
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This regiment was raised in 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) by Major-General Charles Leigh. Leigh was part of the Prince of Wales’s entourage, which led to the regiment using the Prince’s badge and motto and the title ‘Prince of Wales’s Volunteers’. Two years after formation it was given the numeral 82 and moved to Gibraltar.
That same year it helped seize the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in the West Indies. There it faced a French force, a rebel slave army and deadly disease. By 1798 it had lost so many men that it had to return to Britain for two years. In 1800 it had recovered sufficiently to join the British force sent to support the abortive French Royalist landings on the French mainland at Quiberon Bay.
Briefly posted to Minorca for a year in 1801 and then to Ireland for five years in 1802, the regiment saw action again at Copenhagen in 1807. In the meantime, in 1804, the unit had raised a 2nd Battalion. This served as the regiment’s depot battalion and never left England before its disbandment in December 1815.
1st Battalion was sent to Portugal in 1808, fighting in the Peninsular War (1807-14) at Rolica (1808), Vimeiro (1808) and Corunna (1808). It then joined the Walcheren expedition to Holland the following year.
After a brief posting to Gibraltar, the regiment returned to the Peninsula in 1810, fighting at Barossa (1811), Tarifa (1811), Burgos (1812) and Vitoria (1813), and gaining a special commendation from Wellington for its conduct during the Pass of Maya action in 1813. By April 1814 it had fought its way into southern France.
Later that year it was sent to Canada for the closing stages of the War of 1812 (1812-15) against America, fighting at Niagara (1814). The regiment only embarked for Britain on 28 June 1815, ten days after Waterloo, but it did spent the rest of that year as part of the Army of Occupation in Paris.
It then sailed to Dover in January 1816, where it was immediately re-routed to Ireland. En route, the regiment lost 160 officers and men and 27 women and children in a shipwreck off the coast of Kinsale.
It moved to Mauritius in 1819 for 12 years and, after six years back in England and Ireland, it was posted to Gibraltar. The 1840s saw it garrisoning the West Indies and Canada. In 1855 it took part in the Crimean War (1854-56) where it briefly served at Sevastopol. The regiment was at Singapore when the Indian Mutiny (1857-59) began and it was sent to Calcutta (now Kolkata) before going on to take part in the second Relief of Lucknow (1857).
The 82nd left India in 1869, spending a year in Aden before landing in England in February 1870. It spent five more years in Ireland from 1875, but otherwise remained in England until 1881, when it amalgamated with the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot to form The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
