For other units with the same regimental number, see 53rd Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)

53rd Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)

53rd Regiment of Foot may refer to:*51st Regiment of Foot, aka 53rd Regiment of Foot, raised in 1754 and renumbered as the 51st in 1756*53rd Regiment of Foot, raised as the 55th and renumbered as the 53rd in 1756...

The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a 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...

 regiment

Regiment

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 founded in 1755. In 1881, as part of the Childers Reforms

Childers Reforms

The Childers Reforms restructured the infantry regiments of the British army. The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell reforms....

, it became The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

The King's Shropshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. The KSLI was amalgamated with three other county light infantry regiments in 1968 to became part of The Light Infantry...

 Regiment. Its traditions are currently held by the 3rd battalion of The Light Infantry

The Light Infantry

The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. It was formed on 10 July 1968 as a "large regiment" by the amalgamation of the four remaining light infantry regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade:...

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The 53rd was raised in 1755 as the 55th but was renumbered in 1757 to the 53rd. The regiment would see its first action when it arrived at Quebec City

Quebec City

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 in May of 1776 to help raise the siege of the city by Continental Army

Continental Army

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 troops during the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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