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American Regiment

King's Royal Rifle Corps, British regiment known as the "American Regiment" when originally formed in North America



see also

First American Regiment

In 1786, Secretary of War Henry Knox ordered Col. Harmar to the outpost village of Vincennes to drive away the Kentucky militia, who fled at the approach of the First American Regiment.

The First American Regiment was the first peacetime regular army force authorized by United States Congress after the American Revolutionary War.

Royal American

Royal American Regiment, see King's Royal Rifle Corps, a British Army infantry regiment raised in colonial North America

Upper Rawdon, Nova Scotia

Some of the troops that assisted Lord Rawdon in the Siege of Ninety-Six were from the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) as well as the 2nd American Regiment.