92nd Regiment of Foot (1779)
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The 92nd Regiment of Foot was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in 1779 to provide garrison troops for the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War. The colonel-commandant of the regiment was Lt-Col. Hon. James Stuart-Wortley, second son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. After spending several years stationed in Jamaica, the regiment was disbanded in England after the Treaty of Paris in 1783.


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