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72nd Regiment of Foot [1777-1783, 1794-1796] |
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| 1777.12.16 | 72nd Regiment
of Foot (Royal Manchester Voluntiers) raised by City of Manchester for service at Gibraltar |
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| 1783.09.09 | disbanded at Manchester | |||
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1794.04 | 104th
Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Voluntiers) raised for service in Ireland, reviving title of 72nd Regiment of Foot |
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| 1796 | disbanded | |||
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| 1795 | personnel transferred to 39th Foot at Spike Islandaaa | ||
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| 1777 | Col. Charles Mawhood | |
| 1781 | Maj-Gen. Charles Ross [to 1783] | |
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| 1794 | Col. Solomon Peter de l'Hoste | |
| 1795 | Lewes [to 1796] | |
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McGuffie, T.H. "The Royal Manchester Volunteers," The Manchester review, Summer 1955, p. 209-222 | |
