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.
They
fought at the Battle of Roucoux (October
1746) and the Batlle of Lauffeld or Val
(July 1747). In both cases, the allied forces were defeated by the French. The
regiment returned to England in 1747 and it entered a thirty-year period of
garrison service in England, Ireland, Gibraltar and Minorca, returning to
the British Isles Feb 1776. Sent to the Barbados Nov 1780 and returned to the
British Isles in 1782.
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