The Second or The Queen's Royal Regiment
1680
  The Tangier Regiment of Foot
25th March
Large Moorish Army invests Tangier.
13th May
 Moors capture Kendall, Charle, Pole and Henrietta Forts.
2nd June
 Four new companies arrive from England. Governor’s regiment formed into two battalions.
30th July
 Two regiments of Guards, with Dumbarton’s Regiment, arrive in Tangier. Earl of Ossory appointed Governor; Sir Palmes Fairborne remains in command.
20th September
 Sortie and battle before Tangier. Forts retaken and refortified.
24th October
 Sir Palmes Fairborne killed. Colonel Sackville appointed Governor.
December
 Six months’ truce with the Moors. Earl of Plymouth appointed Governor and Colonel of the Governor’s Regiment.
Arrival of 2nd Tangier Regiment in two battalions under Piercy Kirk and Charles Trelawney.

The Monmouth Cap 1680

1681 - 1682
  The Tangier Regiment of Foot
1681
Kirke’s emissary to the Moors.
25th March 1682
 Kirke appointed Governor and Colonel of the Governor’s Regiment.

 

1683
  The Tangier Regiment of Foot
January
Treaty of Whitehall.
  Destruction of the Mole and fortifications of Tangier commences.
14th September
 Arrival of the English fleet.

 

1684
  The Queen's Regiment
20th February
Tangier Regiment returns home on the evacuation of Tangier, and on 1st May is designated The Queen’s Regiment, with seniority as Second in the Line.
  Four companies sent to Ireland.

 

1685
Monmouth’s Rebellion
  The Queen's Regiment
1st January 1685
The Queen’s Regiment redesignated The Queen Dowager’s Regiment on the death of Charles II and accession of James II.
10th June
 James Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme Bay and raises rebellion.
6th July
 Battle of Sedgemoor concludes Monmouth’s rebellion.


1686
  The Queen Dowager's Regiment of Foot
The Queen’s redesignated as The Queen Dowager’s Regiment.
Regiment at Plymouth, then to Kingston.
February
 Rochester.
Hounslow Camp; companies in Ireland return.
August
 Exeter and Taunton.

The Battle of Sedgemoor.

 

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