108th Regiment of Foot (1761)
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- For other units with the same regimental number, see 108th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)
The 108th Regiment of Foot was an infantry
Infantry
Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...
regiment of the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
from 1761 to 1763.
It was raised in October 1761 from a cadre of the 31st Regiment of Foot, and was disbanded in 1763.