Military history of Somerset

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Somerset Light Infantry, Monmouth Rebellion, RAF Weston Zoyland, RAF Charmy Down, Battle of Sedgemoor, RNAS Yeovilton, West Somerset Yeomanry, Battle of Langport, ROF Bridgwater, 40th Regiment of Foot, Battle of Lansdowne, Battle of Cynwit, North Somerset Yeomanry, Taunton Stop Line, Somerset Military Museum, Battle of Peonnum, RNAS Charlton Horethorne, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, Siege of Taunton. Excerpt: The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles. Original uniform of the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment in 1685The regiment was one of nine regiments of foot raised by James II when he expanded the size of the army in response to the Monmouth Rebellion. On 20 June 1685 Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon was issued with a warrant authorising him to raise a regiment, and accordingly the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot was formed, mainly recruiting in the county of Buckinghamshire. The regiment remained in existence when William III came to the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Fernando Hastings took over the colonecy of the regiment, which accordingly became Hastings's Regiment of Foot. Hastings's Regiment first saw action at the Battle of Killiecrankie, where they failed to halt the advance of Jacobite rebels, although they were later defated at the Battle of Dunkeld. The regiment acconpanied William to Ireland in the following year, fighting in the decisive Williamite victories at the Boyne and Cork. The Jacobite struggles in Scotland and Ireland were part of a wider European conflict which became known as the Nine Years' War. In 1692 Hastings' Regiment sailed to Flanders, and in 1694 took part in the disastrous amphibious assault at Camaret on the French coast. In 1695 Colonel Fernando Hastings was found guilty of extortion, and dismissed. Sir John Jacob became the colonel, and it was as Jacob's Regiment of Foot that they returned to England at the end of the war in 1697. After a period of garrison duty in Ireland, Jacob's Regiment returned to Flanders in 1701. In the following year the colonelcy again changed, with Sir John Jacob choosing to retire. He sold the colonelcy to his brother-in-law, Lieutenant-General James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore, for 1,400 guineas. With the outbreak of the War of the