50th Regiment of Foot

50th Regiment of Foot

Three regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 50th Regiment of Foot:

*Henry Cornewall's Regiment of Marines, numbered as 50th Foot in 1747
*50th Regiment of Foot (American Provincials), or Shirley's Regiment, raised 1754
*50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot, formed as the 52nd and renumbered in 1756.


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