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82nd Regiment of Foot (1777)

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82nd Regiment of Foot
Active16 December 1777 – 1784
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1777–1784)
BranchArmy
TypeLine Infantry
Military unit

The 82nd Regiment of Foot was a British army regiment raised for service in the American Revolutionary War.

The regiment was raised in Lanarkshire, Scotland on 16 December 1777. It was sent to New York in August 1779 and then to establish and defend New Ireland in June 1779. It was sent to Wilmington, North Carolina in April 1781 and its light company was interned at Yorktown. It was disbanded in 1784.

References

  1. ^ "82nd Regiment of Foot". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2006. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
Regiments of foot 1740–1881

Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881.

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