Difference between revisions of "96th Regiment of Foot"

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Also known as The Manchester Regiment

1824 formed as 96th Regiment of Foot at Manchester
1874 deemed to be successor of earlier 96th Regiment
1881 united with 63rd Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment
1958 amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) to form the King's Regiment.
2006 amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)

transferred to the 96th Foot in Hobart in 1848, and the regiment left for India in 1849. Archive.org

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 ===historical books online===
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/10/mode/2up  ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''] by Isaac Tyrell 1904, page 10 the author
-transferred to the 96th Foot in Hobart in 1848, and the regiment left for India in 1849.
+transferred to the 96th Foot in Hobart in 1848, and the regiment left for India in 1849. Archive.org
 [[Category:British Army Infantry Regiments]]