72nd Regiment or 72nd Infantry Regiment may refer to: * 72nd Infantry Regiment (France), former an infantry regiment of the

French Army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of France, along with the other components of the Armed Force ...

72nd Regiment of Foot (1758) The 72nd Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army from 1758 to 1763. It was formed on 28 April 1758 from the 2nd Battalion of the 33rd Regiment of Foot and took part in the Raid on Cherbourg in 1758 and the capture of Belle Isle in 1 ...

, former regiment of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

, 1758–1763 *

72nd (Hampshire) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery The Hampshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry cavalry regiment formed by amalgamating older units raised between 1794 and 1803 during the French Revolutionary Wars. It served in a mounted role in the Second Boer War and World War I, and in the air defenc ...

, a British Yeomanry unit. * 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders, a former unit of the British Army, 1778-1881 * 72nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, a former unit of the British Indian Army * 72nd Regiment "Seaforth Highlanders of Canada", Canadian reserve regiment ;American Civil War * 72nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 72nd Indiana Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army * 72nd Ohio Infantry, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army *

72nd Pennsylvania Infantry 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mytho ...

, a unit of the Union (Northern) Army

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