Light Bobs

Light Bobs

Light Bobs can refer to various things:

* a nickname for the British light infantry, first used during the American Wars of independence, and commonly applied to the Light Division during the Napoleonic wars. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=pzz9UFBtxywC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=%22Light+Bobs%22+&source=web&ots=B11YiDb2qB&sig=FfnniyCS5bcZflAlvt7qJDMY6Rw&hl=en Gavin K. Watt,"Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley: The St. Leger Expedition of 1777"] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=STcoJP7esp4C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=%22Light+Bobs%22+&source=web&ots=T4wE-1lFjZ&sig=s1180mZ4aGGHupxKGGccpMcfkKA&hl=en"Washington's crossing" by David Hackett Fischer] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=d7N-o1tG0aoC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22Light+Bobs%22+&source=web&ots=m6PDzo6-Pl&sig=TWn61N99Z9UqB_AAd9ULToF0M-0&hl=en "Wellington's Infantry" by Bryan Fosten] ]

* a nickname for the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot. [Wickes, H.L. (1974) "Regiments of Foot: A historical record of all the foot regiments of the British Army", p.77, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, ISBN 0850452201]

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