The 90th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry 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 ...

during the

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

History

The regiment was raised in Yorkshire in October 1779 and was posted to the Leeward Islands under the command of General Loftus Anthony Tottenham, arriving in January 1780. It returned to England in 1783 and was disbanded in Yorkshire the following year.

References

Military units and formations established in 1779 Military units and formations disestablished in 1784 Infantry regiments of the British Army Regiments of the British Army in the American Revolutionary War {{AmericanRevolutionaryWar-stub