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27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot

The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1689. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1881.

27th Inniskilling Regiment of Foot

1689-1881, became Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

 Kingdom of England (1689–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Line Infantry

Regiment

St Lucia Barracks, Omagh

The Skins[1]

Battle of the Boyne (1690)
Battle of Falkirk Muir (1746)
Battle of Culloden (1746)
Battle of Maida (1806)
Siege of Badajoz (1812)
Battle of Salamanca (1812)
Battle of Castalla (1813)
Battle of Vitoria (1813)
Battle of the Pyrenees (1813)
Battle of Ordal (1813)
Battle of Nivelle (1813)
Battle of Orthez (1814)
Battle of Toulouse (1814)
Battle of Waterloo (1815)

West Indies: St. Lucia on 24 May 1796

Napoleonic Wars: Egypt, , Waterloo

Maida

Peninsular War: , Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula

Badajoz

Martinique 1762, Havannah, St. Lucia 1778, South Africa 1835, 1846-47 (awarded to successor regiment in 1882 and 1909)

Battle honours won by the regiment were:[4]

1689–1702: Brig-Gen. Zachariah Tiffin

1702–1725: Gen.

Thomas Whetham

1725–1732: F.M.

Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth

1732–1737: Lt-Gen. Archibald Hamilton

1737–1761: Lt-Gen.

William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney

Colonels of the regiment were:[4]

Gates, David (2002). The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. London: Pimlico.  0-7126-9730-6.

ISBN

(2001). The Peninsular War 1807-1814. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-139041-7.

Glover, Michael

Hamilton-Williams, David (1994). Waterloo - New Perspectives: The Great Battle Reappraised. NY: John Wiley & Sons.  0-471-05225-6.

ISBN

Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (1974). Uniforms of Waterloo. NY: Hippocrene Books.  0-88254-283-4.

ISBN

Royle, Trevor (2014). . Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1781311882.

Britain's Lost Regiments

(1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Smith, Digby

Trimble, Copeland (1876). . William Clowes.

Historical record of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment from the period of its institution as a volunteer corps till the present time

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regimental Museum

1842 Roll of Honour, Durban Military Cemetery