King's Royal Rifle Corps

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The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised in the Thirteen Colonies in 1756 as the 62nd (Royal American) Regiment of Foot for service in the French and Indian War. The regiment was unique in that it consisted in large part of Swiss, German and Dutch Protestants along with American colonists recruited for their skill in unconventional warfare in wooded terrain; the British Parliament passed a special act to allow the regiment's recruitment of foreigners. Renumbered as the 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot in 1757, the regiment subsequently served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In 1815 the regiment was renamed the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps before being renamed again to the "King's Royal Rifle Corps" in 1830. It served in multiple conflicts of the Victorian era and both world wars before joining the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's...

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