The 104th Regiment of Foot (King's Volunteers) was a short-lived

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regiment of the

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active during the

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. On 10 August 1761 Patrick Tonyn, an officer in the

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, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and authorised to raise a regiment of foot. The regiment was duly formed by the regimentation of six independent companies as the 104th Foot in October 1761. The regiment served in

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before being disbanded in 1763.

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