92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry)

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92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry)
Active1760–1763
CountryUnion flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg  Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
BranchFlag of the British Army.svg  British Army
Type Infantry
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment
Gen. Sir Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross

The 92nd Regiment of Foot (Donegal Light Infantry) (1760–1763) was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in Ireland in 1760 by the Earl of Ross at his own expense to help counter the Spanish Invasion of Portugal of 1762, an offshoot of the Seven Years' War. [1]

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General Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross, known as Sir Ralph Gore, 6th Baronet from 1746 until 1764, subsequently as The Lord Gore until 1768 and then as The Viscount Belleisle until 1772, was an Irish soldier, politician and peer.

Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762)

The Spanish invasion of Portugal between 5 May and 24 November 1762 was a main military episode of the wider Seven Years' War, where Spain and France were heavily defeated by the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. It initially involved the forces of Spain and Portugal, before the French and British intervened in the conflict on the side of their respective allies. The war was also strongly marked by a national guerrilla warfare in the mountainous country, cutting off supplies from Spain, and a hostile peasantry that enforced a scorched earth policy as the invading armies approached, leaving the invaders starving and short of military supplies.

The Colonel-Commandant of the Regiment was General Sir Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross himself.

After being posted to the Iberian Peninsular in 1762 the regiment was disbanded in England following the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

Treaty of Paris (1763) 1763 treaty that ended the Seven Years War

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References

  1. "92nd Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2018-09-27.