Royal Welch Fusiliers
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royal-welch-fusiliers-162-7429638
title:
Royal Welch Fusiliers
text:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division, that was founded in 1689; shortly after the Glorious Revolution. In 1702, it was designated a fusilier regiment and became the Welch Regiment of Fusiliers; the prefix "Royal" was added in 1713, then confirmed in 1714 when George I named it the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers. In 1751, after reforms that standardised the naming and numbering of regiments,
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description:
Line infantry regiment of the British Army
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers
date created:
2002-06-24T13:15:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T20:16:02Z
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13
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