The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was an infantry regiment in the British Army^[1]. A regiment is a Military unit, composed of a variable number of Battalions – commanded by a Colonel. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces.

History

Formation

It was formed as a fusilier regiment in 1685 by Lord Dartmouth, George Legge, from two companies of the Tower of London guard, and was originally called the Ordnance Regiment. Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock Musket called the fusil. The title of Earl of Dartmouth was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1711 for William Legge 2nd Baron Dartmouth, who was then Secretary of State for Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower) is a historic monument in central London Most regiments were equipped with matchlock muskets at the time, but the Ordnance Regiment were armed with fusils. The Matchlock was the first mechanism or "lock" invented to uncomplicate the firing of a hand-held firearm A musket is a muzzle -loaded Smoothbore Long gun, which is intended to be fired from the shoulder Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock Musket called the fusil. This was because their task was to be an escort for the artillery, for which matchlocks would have carried the risk of igniting the barrels of gunpowder. Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine Gunpowder is a an explosive mixture of Sulfur, Charcoal and Potassium nitrate (also known as saltpetre/saltpeter that burns rapidly producing volumes

American Revolution

The Royal Fusiliers played an active part in saving Canada from invasion by the army of the American Continental Congress during the autumn of 1775^[2] and winter of 1776. The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the Later, the regiment was sent to New York and participated in the occupation of Philadelphia, the Battle of Monmouth (1778), the capture of Charleston (1779), and the southern campaigns under the command of General Cornwallis. Prelude In May of 1778 The British commander General Clinton in Philadelphia faced with a war with France decided it was prudent to protect New York City and Florida Background From 1777 to 1778, the British had considerable success in the southern colonies namely in the Colony of Georgia with the Siege of The Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the central area of operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis ( 31 December 1738 &ndash 5 October 1805) was a British military commander and colonial

French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

The Royal Fusiliers formed part of the famed Fusilier Brigade in Wellington's Peninsular Army along with the 23rd Regiment of Foot (The Royal Welch Fusiliers) at the Battle of Albuhera on 16 May 1811. The Royal Welch Fusiliers were a Regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The Battle of Albuera (16 May 1811 was an indecisive battle during the Peninsular War. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1811 ( MDCCCXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

First World War

22 August 1914: "A" Company of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, resting in the town square at Mons. Mons ( Dutch: Bergen, Picard: Mont) is a Walloon City and municipality located in the Belgian

The Royal Fusiliers served with distinction in the First World War^[3], raising 76 battalions who wore the regimental cap badge. They served on the Western Front, in Africa, the Middle East and Macedonia. Members of the Royal Fusiliers won the first two Victoria Crosses of the war near Mons in August 1914, and the last two in North Russia. For the ancient Roman campaign see Battle of Mons Algidus. The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force Its war memorial is on High Holborn, near Chancery Lane tube station, surmounted by the lifesize statue of a World War One soldier, and its regimental chapel is at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate. A war memorial is a building monument statue or other edifice to celebrate a War or victory or (predominating in modern times to commemorate those who died or were injured High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London, England. Chancery Lane is a London Underground station in central London. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Holborn is an Anglican church in the City of London.

Jabotinsky (L) as an Officer and Ben-Gurion as a Private of the Royal Fusiliers uniform. Ze'ev Jabotinsky MBE (זאב ז'בוטינסקי Зеэв Жаботинский born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky on 18 October 1880

The 38th through 42nd Battalions of the regiment served as the Jewish Legion in Palestine^[4]. This article is about the British Army battalions known as the Jewish Legion or Zion Mule Corps, which fought in World War I against the

The 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion has no current links with the Legion of Frontiersmen, as the 25th Battalion was disbanded in 1918. The 25th (Frontiersmen Service Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment was a British Army unit that served during World War I. The Legion of Frontiersmen is a patriotic paramilitary organisation formed in Britain in 1905 and designed to bolster the defensive capacity of the British Empire

Second World War

The Royal Fusiliers were involved in many notable battles of the war, including Operation Shingle, or as it is now known, the Battle of Anzio. Operation Shingle ( January 22, 1944) during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Company C was ordered to hold the bridgehead against a Tiger I tank assault. Tiger I ( is the common name of a German heavy Tank of World War II. There were many casualties ^[5] , including Eric Fletcher Waters, father of Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters, who wrote the song "When the Tigers Broke Free" about the attack. Eric Fletcher Waters (born 1913 - died 18 February 1944 was a Soldier in the British Army during World War II. Pink Floyd are George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician " When the Tigers Broke Free " (also listed as When the Tygers Broke Free) is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters, describing the death of his father

Post 1945

On 23 April 1968 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Ft), The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (6th Ft) and the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th Ft) to form 3rd Bn. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was one of England's premier county Regiments and can trace its ancestry back to the year 1674 The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot and The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was an Infantry Regiment of The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British Infantry Regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF is an Infantry Regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division.

Nomenclature

The regiment became the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) in 1751, although a variety of spellings of the word "fusilier" persisted until the 1780s, when the modern spelling was formalised. In 1881, under the Cardwell Reforms when regimental numbers were abolished the regiment became The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).

References

Memorial Gardens

1. ^ English and Welsh Infantry Regiments: An illustrated Record of Service Westlake,R. (195) Stroud,GLS,UK Spellmount) ISBN 1873376243
2. ^ Recreated Royal Fuzileers c. 1775
3. ^ The 2nd City of London Regiment-Royal Fusiliers-in the Great War, 1914-19 Gray,W. E. (1929, London, Seeley,Service &Co)
4. ^ The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in 1914-1918
5. ^ Further details