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32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot

32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot
32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot Badge.jpg
Badge of the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot
Active 1702-1881
Country

 Kingdom of England (1702-1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801)

 United Kingdom (1801-1881)
Branch  British Army
Garrison/HQ Victoria Barracks, Bodmin
Engagements War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Austrian Succession
Napoleonic Wars
Lower Canada Rebellion
Second Anglo-Sikh War
Indian Rebellion

 Kingdom of England (1702-1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801)

The 32nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1881.

The regiment was first raised by Colonel Edward Fox as Edward Fox’s Regiment of Marines in 1702 to fight in the War of Spanish Succession. Elements of the regiment joined the fleet which sailed from Spithead in July 1702 and saw action as marines at the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702. The marines returned to England in November 1702. The regiment also took part in the capture and defence of Gibraltar in July 1704 and suffered very heavy losses at the Battle of Almansa in April 1707. It was disbanded in 1713 but re-raised as Jacob Borr’s Regiment of Foot in 1714. It then served in Ireland from 1716 to 1734.


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