90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers)
[4] The following year the regiment was dispatched to support the French Royalist Lieutenant-general François de Charette in his struggle with the Republicans.[21] It then embarked for Ceylon in October 1835[22] and, after ten years on the island, sailed on to the Cape of Good Hope where it landed in April 1846 for service in the Seventh Xhosa War.[25] The regiment returned to England in June 1856 but then embarked for India in February 1857 to help suppress the Indian Rebellion.[26] It took part in the relief of Lucknow in November 1857,[27] an action which saw members of the regiment awarded six Victoria Crosses.Unveiled by Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, on 8 December 1896, one of its plaques reads:[1] The Regiment served with distinction at Mandora 1801, Martinique 1803, Guadeloupe 1810, in America 1814–5, South Africa 1846–7 and 1878–9, Crimea 1854–6, Indian Mutiny 1857–8 and on 1st July 1881 was formed into the Second Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)Another plaque states:[1] The last Regular Battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded on 14th May 1968 as part of national defence economiesRegimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881.
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