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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
 
====Historical Books Online====
[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/n13/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842'']  Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/12/mode/2up page 13] in 1799 in Madras.
[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/n13/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842'']  Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00canniala#page/12/mode/2up page 13] in 1799 in Madras.


===Other===
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_(Royal_County_Down)_Regiment_of_Foot 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Irish_Rangers Royal Irish Rangers] Wikipedia


[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]
[[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]

Revision as of 15:01, 7 September 2010

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, know as the Royal Irish Rifles from 1881.

Chronology

  • 1793 raised as Sir Cornelius Cuyler's Shropshire Volunteers at Shrewsbury from men of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire as a volunteer corps
  • 1794 became the 86th (the Shropshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
  • 1795 absorbed personnel of 118th Regiment of Foot
  • 1806 became the 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot
  • 1812 became the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot to form The Royal Irish Rifles
  • 1947 grouped with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers into the North Irish Brigade
  • 1968 amalgamated with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot to form The Royal Irish Rifles
  • 1991 amalgamated with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the new The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment).

Service in British India

External Links

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot Wikipedia

Historical Books Online

Historical Record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842 Archive.org. Indian service commences page 13 in 1799 in Madras.