Elgin's Regiment of Fencible Infantry

Elgin's Regiment of Fencible Infantry or Elgin's Fencible Highlanders was raised in November 1794.^[1]

Major Thomas, Earl of Elgin, from the 12th Foot was Colonel of this fencible regiment with the permanent army rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. John Hepburn Belches was appointed to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment and Patrick Tyler to be a Major.^[2]

The regiment, was embodied in the Lowlands on 28 November 1794.^[1] It contained about 300 men from the Highlands.^[3] The regiment was posted to Ireland and was decommissioned on 15 October 1802.^[1]

Notes

1. McGuigan 2009.
2. Chapman 1795, p. 616.
3. Stewart 1822, p. 296.

References

• Chapman, A., ed. (September 1795), "Promotions Sequestrations etc", The Scots Magazine; Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, vol. 57, Edinburgh: James Watson and company, p. 616
• McGuigan, Ron (September 2009) [2003], The Forgotten Army: Fencible Regiments of Great Britain 1793 - 1816: Regiments of Fencible Infantry 1793 - 1803, Napoleon Series^{[better source needed]}
• Stewart, David (1822), Sketches of the character, manners and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland (2 ed.), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, p. 396