Elgin's Regiment of Fencible Infantry or Elgin's Fencible Highlanders was raised in November 1794.
Major Thomas, Earl of Elgin, from the 12th Foot was Colonel of this fencible regiment with the permanent army rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. John Hepburn Belches was appointed to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment and Patrick Tyler to be a Major.
The regiment, was embodied in the Lowlands on 28 November 1794. It contained about 300 men from the Highlands. The regiment was posted to Ireland and was decommissioned on 15 October 1802.
Notes
- ^ McGuigan 2009.
- Chapman 1795, p. 616.
- Stewart 1822, p. 296.
References
- Chapman, A., ed. (September 1795), "Promotions Sequestrations etc", The Scots Magazine; Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, vol. 57, Edinburgh: James Watson and company, p. 616
- McGuigan, Ron (September 2009) , The Forgotten Army: Fencible Regiments of Great Britain 1793 - 1816: Regiments of Fencible Infantry 1793 - 1803, Napoleon Series
- Stewart, David (1822), Sketches of the character, manners and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland (2 ed.), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, p. 396