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Jacques Marcus Prevost

Augustine was then commissioned as a major, Jacques as a colonel and Jacques Marcus as a captain in the new Royal American Regiment, formed of German and Swiss settlers in the colonies by Great Britain after General Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars in 1755 and with the threat of war with France looming.


see also

Royal American

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