| 18th Light Dragoons | On 31 October he transferred to the | and it was during this period that he grew increasingly attracted to Kitty ... |
| 3rd Foot Guards | ... was mauled. In the second case, French cavalry caught some companies of the | in skirmish order and inflicted 100 casualties |
| Grenadier Guards | Waite joined the | at Caterham Barracks, but an allergy to a dye in the uniform obliged him t ... |
| The Duke of Wellington's | ... he former commanding officer and colonel of the regiment, the title "33rd ( | ) Regiment" was granted to the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the ... |
| 2nd Tennessee Cavalry | At 3:30, the Confederates in the | assaulted the bridge across the Tishomingo. Although the attack failed, it ... |
| 14th Light Dragoon | ... fine accomplishment for the British-Portuguese. One occurred when a British | squadron pressed home a frontal attack on a French artillery battery and w ... |
| Royal Anglian Regiment | ... of the Regiment from its 17th century origins to its incorporation into the | in 1964. There was an extensive and representative display of medals award ... |
| Rough Riders | ... ated in 1940, was first established by the decision of Theodore Roosevelt's | regiment (the first Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Spanish-American War ... |
| 5th Cavalry Regiment | ... (later Fort Francis E. Warren) until September 16, 1906. He then joined the | at Fort Wingate, New Mexico until October 24, 1907 |
| Lord Strathcona's Horse | ... ith introducing the Stetson-type hat, and when he left the force to command | and took the regiment to South Africa he also adopted the Stetson for this ... |
| Special Air Service | ... the Metropolitan Police handing control of the Iranian Embassy Siege to the | |
| Oppland Regiment | A Norwegian infantry regiment, the | , was formed in 1657 and Elverum became a garrison town. The area of popul ... |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ... r, the Tower is still home to the ceremonial regimental headquarters of the | , and the museum dedicated to it and its predecessor, the Royal Fusiliers. ... |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | ... on's Military Cross was put up for sale by his family. It was bought by the | for display at their museum in Caernarfon |
| 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons | ... e had his wealthy father buy him an officer's commission in the fashionable | . The 11th, commanded by Lord Cardigan, later involved in the Charge of th ... |
| SASR | ... alian waters, insisting on their disembarkment elsewhere, and deploying the | to board the ship. At the time of the incident, Tampa carried cargo worth ... |
| 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment | ... o the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated | took part in the Generals' putsch. Notable operations included the Suez Cr ... |
| Connolly Column | An independent 80-men-strong (mainly) Irish unit, known as the | , made up of people from both sides of the Irish border also fought. Sever ... |
| 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... ered out of the volunteer service but returned to the field as major in the | . He was captured at the Battle of Thompson's Station and spent 3 months i ... |
| Special Air Service | ... (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the nascent British | (SAS) Regiment. Inglis Hi-Powers made for Commonwealth forces have the Bri ... |
| Welsh Guards | ... rhaps the most visible use of the leek, however, is as the cap badge of the | , a regiment within the Household Division of the British Army |
| Royal Guernsey Light Infantry | ... ved in the British Expeditionary Force. Of these, about 1,000 served in the | regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916 |
| 6th (Inniskilling) | ... glish, the 1st (The Royals); a Scottish, 2nd ('Scots Greys'); and an Irish, | ; regiment of heavy dragoons. More than 20 years of warfare had eroded the ... |
| Honourable Artillery Company | ... eral occasions through the year gun salutes are fired from the Tower by the | , these consist of 62 rounds for royal occasions, and 41 on other occasion ... |
| Wild Geese | Many of the | , expatriate Irish soldiers who had gone to Spain, or their descendants, c ... |
| 73rd Regiment of Foot | ... sion in the army. Soon after, on 7 March 1787 he was gazetted ensign in the | . In October, with the assistance of his brother, he was assigned as aide- ... |
| 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment | ... s into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other cavalry squadrons, the | (Blackhorse) was thrown into the fight. The second heaviest losses were du ... |
| King's German Legion | ... hard of La Haye Sainte, which was garrisoned with 400 light infantry of the | . On the opposite side of the road was a disused sand quarry, where the 95 ... |
| 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry | ... a brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia. He raised a regiment, the | , and was appointed its colonel on May 2, 1861. Within a month, he ascende ... |
| Missouri State Guard | ... y Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory for Sterling Price and his | . Price did not hold the fort and instead continued a northern push into M ... |
| 8th Infantry | 6th Infantry, the 7th Infantry and the | |
| Honourable Artillery Company | ... an infantry regiment and with the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers of the | |
| Parachute Regiment | ... mbushed and killed eighteen British Army soldiers, sixteen of them from the | at Warrenpoint, County Down, in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambus ... |
| Royal Warwickshire Regiment | ... ilne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the | and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He wa ... |
| 13th Demi-Brigade | ... ugh having a part in the Norwegian, Syrian and North African campaigns. The | was deployed in the Battle of Bir Hakeim. Reflecting the divided loyalties ... |
| King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) | ... lso worked as a coal miner, waiter and page boy. He first enlisted into the | , but his mother got him "unenlisted" as he was under age. He later re-enl ... |
| Rough Riders | ... inent of the returning quarantined soldiers were Theodore Roosevelt and his | . Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from Pres ... |
| SAS | ... , although they had received very little instruction in their use. The sole | trooper who had received training on the system, and was due to train othe ... |
| Batallón de San Patricio | ... n they sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-U.S. elements. The | , a battalion of U.S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican ... |
| Parachute Regiment | ... nit was really called '2eme PARA', a reference to the Second Battalion, the | of the British Army |
| Special Service Group | ... In 1979, at the request of the Saudi government, commandos of the Pakistani | were rushed to assist Saudi forces in Mecca to lead the operation of the G ... |
| 2nd South Carolina Regiment | ... l in the Continental Army. His brother Thomas was a captain in the American | who was killed in the Battle of Charleston, while his half-brother Alexand ... |
| Household Cavalry | Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the | . An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning ... |
| 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment | ... e fighting legionnaire as the 13th Demi-Brigade (D.B.L.E.) clashed with the | at Damas in Syria. Later, a thousand of the rank and file of the Vichy Leg ... |
| Royal Norfolk Regiment | ... was involved in the Le Paradis massacre, where 99 men of the 2nd Battalion, | were machinegunned, and any survivors finished off with bayonets |
| SAS | ... ed to turn to federal prisoner John Mason (Connery), a former MI6 Agent and | Captain who has been illegally detained for decades by Womack and his pred ... |
| Honourable Artillery Company | ... e most basic poverty. On the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for the | but saw no service before he was invalided out with a hand injury. He subs ... |
| Royal Fusiliers | ... iment of Fusiliers, and the museum dedicated to it and its predecessor, the | . Also, a detachment of the unit providing the Queen's Guard at Buckingham ... |
| 76th Regiment | ... d Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Buckingham. He was also transferred to the new | forming in Ireland and on Christmas Day, 1787, was promoted to lieutenant. ... |
| 2nd ('Scots Greys') | ... so called as it consisted of an English, the 1st (The Royals); a Scottish, | ; and an Irish, 6th (Inniskilling); regiment of heavy dragoons. More than ... |
| 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... etary of War Edwin M. Stanton promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the | who extended his enlistment beyond the agreed upon date. The Battle of Get ... |
| Bermuda Regiment | The only military units remaining in Bermuda, today, are the | , an amalgam of the voluntary units formed in the 19th Century, and army a ... |
| 1st Venezuelan Rifles | c. See articles | , Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Co ... |
| 33rd Regiment of Foot | ... yde Park and St. James's Park on 31 August 1850. He was also colonel of the | from 1 February 1806 and colonel of the Grenadier Guards from 22 January 1 ... |
| 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Shafter served as a 1st lieutenant the Union Army's | at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Fair Oaks. He was wounded at the Battle ... |
| Household Cavalry | To the north of the area, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the | , with a distinctive 33 storey tower by Sir Basil Spence. The Royalty and ... |
| carabinier | ... ermann, recognising the futility of the attacks, tried to reserve the elite | brigade from joining in, but eventually Ney spotted them and insisted on t ... |
| 7th Infantry | 6th Infantry, the | and the 8th Infantry |
| 9th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... correspondence with General Sturgis, Colonel Alex Wilkin, commander of the | gave several reasons for the loss of the battle. He stated that General St ... |
| Grenadier Guards | ... olonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot from 1 February 1806 and colonel of the | from 22 January 1827 |
| Gardes Françaises | ... Turenne too weak to attack, when a dispute for precedence arose between the | and the Picardie regiment. The royal infantry had to be rearranged in orde ... |
| King's German Legion | ... over eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the | , which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic ... |
| 71st Highland Light Infantry | ... rtuguese back under immense pressure, but a charge that included men of the | reclaimed the streets and buildings lost earlier in the day. As the sun sa ... |
| 5th Infantry | ... the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the | , th |
| 1st (The Royals) | ... eral Sir William Ponsonby, was so called as it consisted of an English, the | ; a Scottish, 2nd ('Scots Greys'); and an Irish, 6th (Inniskilling); regim ... |
| 1st Cavalry Regiment | ... anger Battalion under the command of Henry Dodge, which was expanded to the | in 1833 |
| Coldstream Guards | ... roops managed to enter its courtyard before the gate was resecured. The 2nd | and 2/3rd Foot Guards then arrived and repulsed the attack |
| Grenadier Guards | ... ere thought to have defeated the Grenadiers; they were awarded the title of | in recognition of their feat, and adopted bearskins in the style of the Gr ... |
| Special Air Service | ... siege took place in Knightsbridge, lasting several days. It ended when the | stormed the building on live television. In 1983, three Christmas shoppers ... |
| 52nd Light Infantry | ... retired with these Chasseurs in pursuit, but the latter were halted as the | wheeled in line onto their flank and poured a devastating fire into them a ... |
| East Lancashire Regiment | ... ly speaking, the 'Accrington Pals' battalion is properly known as the '11th | ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong compa ... |
| Minnesota's First Regiment of Volunteers | ... . With no previous military experience, Miller enlisted as a private in the | , and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and eventually "Brigadier General ... |
| 4th Infantry | ... he 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the | , the 5th Infantry, th |
| Paracommando Regiment | ... French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian | . Kamanyola Division units collapsed almost immediately. French units foug ... |
| 10th Royal Hussars | ... enlisted" as he was under age. He later re-enlisted as a drummer boy in the | of the British Army and in 1930 was posted to Lucknow, in the United Provi ... |
| Republican Guard | ... nd 159,000 personnel. In addition, there is a presidential force called the | , but it and the National Congolese Police (PNC) are not part of the Armed ... |
| Foreign Legion | ... Comoros at government request. France maintains a small maritime base and a | Detachment (DLEM) on Mayotte |
| First Foreign Cavalry Regiment | In September 1990, the | , the Second Foreign Infantry Regiment, and the Second Foreign Engineer Re ... |
| 7th Dragoon Guards | ... created the most famous cavalry action of the Battle of the Somme, when the | and the 2nd Deccan Horse attempted to capture High Wood. It is likely the ... |
| Special Air Service | ... lth to the plotters. British aristocrat Simon Mann, a former officer in the | , led the plot, which also included former members of the South African Ar ... |
| 1st Foot Guards | Maitland's | , who had defeated the Chasseurs of the Guard, were thought to have defeat ... |
| Second Foreign Infantry Regiment | In September 1990, the First Foreign Cavalry Regiment, the | , and the Second Foreign Engineer Regiment were sent to the Persian Gulf a ... |
| Special Air Service | ... Britain and Argentina. At the onset of the conflict soldiers of the British | had been clandestinely equipped with six missiles, although they had recei ... |
| 1st Washington Territory Infantry Volunteers | ... being 50 people in 1861. During the American Civil War, detachments of the | and 1st Oregon Cavalry were stationed here. In 1866, most of the fort burn ... |
| 6th Cavalry | ... of the Colony of Georgia. The base served largely as a cavalry post for the | . During World War I and World War II, it served a war-time induction and ... |
| British paratroopers | ... Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972), saw the killing of 14 unarmed civilians by | and a backlash of anti-British feeling in all parts of Ireland, including ... |
| 47th Infantry Regiment | ... , his brother-in-law, LTC Frederick Van Deusen (Commander of 2nd Battalion, | ), was killed when his helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta region ... |
| Tyneside Irish Brigade | ... n of two mines at La Boisselle. Here another tragic advance was made by the | of the 34th Division, which started nearly one mile from the German front ... |
| King's Own Royal Regiment | ... joined the British Army in 1895 and fought in the Second Boer War with the | , and served in major campaigns including the Battle of Spion Kop. He move ... |
| Royal Horse Guards | ... d Somerset, consisted of guards regiments: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the | (the Blues), and the 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards. The 2nd Brigade, also kn ... |
| 2nd Infantry | ... 2nd Artillery, the 3rd Artillery, the 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the | , the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry, th |
| 1st Cavalry Regiment (1855) | ... he San Antonio to El Paso Road. He was soon transferred to the newly formed | at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quarterm ... |
| East Lancashire Regiment | ... is father, whom he barely knew. His father had served in the 1st Battalion, | during the war and was often away from home. Bremner traveled to 's-Hertog ... |
| The Calgary Highlanders | ... ut the true intentions of the bombardment. The city itself was liberated by | in 1945 after a brief battle there |
| 6th BPC | ... Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, the Officer in Command of the | . Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also an honorary member |
| 71st Foot | ... hey had to do without senior officers. Eventually they were relieved by the | , a British infantry regiment. Adam's brigade was further reinforced by Hu ... |
| 79th Highland Regiment | ... ets. At first, the French had some success, wiping out two companies of the | and killing the regiment's commander, Lieut-Colonel Philips Cameron. But a ... |
| 2nd Virginia Cavalry | ... rp fight against Brig. Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's | was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements. ... |
| 92nd Gordon Highland Regiment | ... wept through the infantry lines (giving rise to the legend that some of the | clung onto their stirrups and accompanied them into the charge). From the ... |
| King's German Legion | ... ain crossroads mark the mass graves of British, Dutch, Hanoverian and KGL ( | ) troops. A monument to the French dead entitled L'aigle Blessé ("The Woun ... |
| Highland Light Infantry | ... t Trenches and a push towards Grandcourt. Ninety men of the 16th Battalion, | (the "Glasgow Boys Brigade" Pals battalion) were cut off in Frankfurt Tren ... |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ... north-east of the White Tower. The building is now the headquarters of the | . The popularity of the Chartist movement between 1828 and 1858 led to a d ... |
| 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment | ... d all the cavalry companies of the Army of the Shenandoah, organized as the | . He was promoted to colonel on July 16 |
| 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) | ... ne 30, 1777 under the command of Captain Hawker, four British ship with the | arrived on the scene under the command of Major Gilfred Studholme. When th ... |
| 33rd Regiment | ... which was common in the British Army at the time), he became a major in the | in 1793. A few months later, in September, his brother lent him more money ... |
| Texas Brigade | ... ood, who gained recognition during the Civil War as the commander of Hood's | |
| Royal Horse Artillery | ... jacent squares during the charges. Captain Mercer, who commanded 'G' Troop, | , thought the Brunswick troops on either side of him so shaky that he kept ... |
| Ulster Defence Regiment | On 29 August 1982, Murphy killed Jim Galway (33), a part-time | (UDR) soldier from the Lower Shankill area who had been passing informatio ... |
| Highland Light Infantry | ... ught in Northern France with the 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion of the | |
| 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards | ... s: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), and the | . The 2nd Brigade, also known as the Union Brigade, commanded by Major-Gen ... |
| Virginia Regiment | ... Years' War (1756–1763). A militia from several British colonies, called the | , was led by then-Lieutenant colonel George Washington |
| 52nd Light Infantry | ... etreated with these Chasseurs in pursuit, but the latter were halted as the | wheeled in line onto their flank and poured a devastating fire into them a ... |
| The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada | ... oldiers were quickly deployed from nearby Toronto, many of them coming from | |
| Royal Fusiliers | ... officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and joined the British Army | as an ordinary soldier. More than once he returned to the battlefield when ... |
| Special Air Service | ... dom fighters" who want Transylvania to become a homeland for the undead. As | troops mass for an assault, vampire/journalist Kate Reed is invited into t ... |
| 58th Regiment of Foot | ... wo years. On 30 January 1791 he became a captain and was transferred to the | |
| Duke of Wellington's Regiment | Priestley served during the First World War in the 10th Battalion, the | . He was wounded in 1916 by mortar fire. In his autobiography, Margin Rele ... |
| King's German Legion | ... y with 150 guns. Of these, 25,000 were British, with another 6,000 from the | . All of the British Army troops were regular soldiers but only 7,000 of t ... |
| Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum | The | was, until 2011, housed in a part of what was the Shirehall, close to the ... |
| SAS | ... iscovered that they were not as safe as he had been led to believe. His ex- | bodyguards tested one of the cars in the desert in July 1977, by firing at ... |
| Glasgow Highlanders | ... in Ayr. In the First World War he fought in Northern France with the 9th ( | ) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry |
| 1st | ... d by Major-General Lord Edward Somerset, consisted of guards regiments: the | and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), and the 1st (King ... |
| Tank Corps | ... ege in England. After the outbreak of the First World War, he served in the | as a tank commander in France, and was awarded both the Distinguished Serv ... |
| Flight of the Wild Geese | ... ups of young men who had left Ireland during what would become known as the | in the 17th century. In addition, many Irish fought as soldiers in South A ... |
| King's German Legion | ... was only achieved by the efforts of the Light Division and the British and | cavalry |
| 65th Infantry Regiment | ... ere assigned to the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry" which was renamed the | of the United States Army by the Reorganization Act of June 4, 1920. The 6 ... |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | ... gfried very hard. He was commissioned into 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve), | as a second lieutenant on 29 May 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st ... |
| Joint Task Force 2 | ... (SERT), were transferred to the Canadian Forces, creating a new unit called | (JTF2). JTF2 inherited some equipment and SERT's former training base near ... |
| Bermuda Regiment | Today, the only military unit remaining in Bermuda is the | , an amalgam of the voluntary units originally formed toward the end of th ... |
| 2nd Vermont Brigade | ... al George J. Stannard, a Union Army hero of the Civil War. Stannard and his | broke Pickett's charge and beat back troops from Florida and Alabama. He w ... |
| 52nd Regiments of Foot | ... nteers, the Loyal American Regiment, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the 57th and the | . By the end of the day, both forts had fallen to the British, who burned ... |