The Royal American Regiment

If one were challenged to name some famous regiments of the British Army, doubtless one would think first of the colorful Guards Regiments, so often photographed at Buckingham Palace, or of the romantically named and accoutered Black Watch with its kilts and pipers. But another regiment, unique and equally famous, calls for attention, a regiment whose esprit and conduct was destined to exert a mutating influence throughout the British Army, a regiment, moreover, whose roots strike deep into the Pennsylvania soil beside the Monongahela which in July of 1755 had been drenched with the blood of Braddock's fine soldiers, a regiment once known as the Royal Americans. 

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