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Ranks.
Attached duties.
Captain-Lieutenant. [Cpt/Lt] This is a duty given to the senior subaltern of the first company to administrate it and command it in the Colonels absence. | Adjutant. [Adj] This duty, usually held by a lieutenant or captain, is given to the man who manages the regimental muster roll. | Drill Sergeant.[DSgt] The Drill Sergeant is the right hand man of the Regimental Sergeant Major and is given command of basic training of all new recruits, ensuring they are of the expected standard. |
Various Musician ranks. [Bug,Fif,Drm] Buglers, fifers and drummers. These men are the fellows who play rousing symphonies in battle. | Regimental Sapper [Sap] This appointment is given to a man of the battalion responsible for building field works like trenches, chevaux de frise and sandbags when the situation demands it. | Picket The men of the pickets are those who may, on occasion be selected to scout ahead of the battalion in order to identify the position of any enemy force. No special tags are worn in this post. |
History.
Formation and the early years. Raised in 1642 ,as a personal bodyguard for Charles I, by Archibald Campbell the 1st Marquis of Argyll it was originally known as the Marquis of Argyll's Royal Regiment. It was almost immediately dispatched to Ireland where it performed a variety of duties before the English Civil War a few years later where it found itself fighting against James Graham, the 1st Marquess of Montrose who fought on the side of Charles I. They remained in Ireland until 1649 when they returned to Scotland and became part of Charles II's Scottish Army, raised to fight against the English Parliamentary Forces. After the loss at the Battle of Worcester the regiment was ordered to be disbanded in 1651, it was reformed however nine years later on Charles II's return to the thrown, thence forth it was known as the Scottish Regiment of Foot Guards. In 1686 it was redesignated as part of the English army at which point it took precedence behind the other two Foot Guard regiments as the Third Regiment. It would not gain the official title of "Third Regiment of Foot Guards" until 1772. The regiment gained it's first battle honour at the siege of Namur in 1695 which is universally recognised as the most important engagement of the Nine Years war. Kings colours of the 3rd Foot Guards. | 18th Century. In 1709, a few years following the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, the regiment was deployed to Spain and in 1810 fought victoriously in the Battle of Saragossa. Their second and final engagement of the war however did not go as favourably for the Guards. On the 8th of December of the same year during the retreat from Madrid, the rearguard under Lord Stanhope found itself cut off in the town of Brihuega and though the men put up a valiant defence which saw them exhaust their supply's of gunpowder they were eventually overwhelmed. The regiment gained it's second battle honour during the War of the Austrian Succession at the battle of Dettingen, the last time a British army would be commanded by a King. The battle was suitably a victory. The regiment also fought in the battle of Fontenoy in 1745 which saw some greivous losses suffered by the regiment in the form of over 100 men and officers. This defeat saw the regiment sent back to Britain to recover from it's losses in the war, at the same time however occurred the second Jacobite Rebellion which the regiment, though the regiment only managed to fight in the ill fated Battle of Lauffeld in '47. The Long war of the Austrian Succession finally ended a year later. Seven Years War. In 1756 Britain once again found itself at war with the French, in a war though that would spread far further than any other before it, with battles fought across Europe, North America and Canada. The 1st battalion was part of the first expedition to Brittany though it was soon aborted before anything of consequence had occured. A second expedition was launched in August which landed near the port of Cherbourg in normandy, the Guards gallantly swept aside a few thousand French troops who had at least intended to oppose the landing. The town of Cherbourg itself surrended a few days later where a great number of French Warships and military facilities in the port were destroyed and would remain wrecked for many years. The 2nd Battalion however saw a much more successful service forming part of the Brigade of Guards dispatched to germany where they fought in the Battles of Villinghausen,Wilhelmsthal and finally the Battle of the Brucke-Muhle, all of which were victories. American War of Independence. In 1776 with the American Colonists in Philadelphia declared independence. In response 15 men were taken from each company of each Battalion of each Footguard regiment to form a composite Guards battalion. This battalion saw service at the battles of Brooklyn and the White Plains, Brandywine and even the great victory at Germantown. They also however found themselves in the victorious yet pyyrhic Battle of Guildford Couthouse which damaged the British force to such an extent that it was forced to retreat to Yorktown, the battle which quite disastrously ended the American War of Independence. |
The Scots Fusilier Guards, or 3rd regiment of Foot Guards, aims to become one of the most disciplined and skilled regiments of the community, aiming to perform in a manner reminiscent of the Guards regiments of the time. The Foot Guards have always set the standard for what the ideal regiment should try to be, and so it is that the 3rd aim to pursue this honoured tradition. However, we also aim to be open to our members, giving everyone their chance to advance through the ranks, to make themselves known and if they feel the need, offer constructive criticism to the Officers. Ambition, like honesty is something much appreciated here in the belief that for a regiment to succeed it must co-ordinate on every level.
French Revolutionary Wars '89-03. The French Revolutionary Wars began in 1789 in an attempt to combat Revolutionary France following the fall of the Bourbon Monarchy. In 1793 the First Coalition, containing Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and a number of other smaller states alongside French Royalists was formed to stop the spread of revolutionary ideals and restore the Bourbons back on the throne of France. The 1st Battalion participated both in the Battle of Famars and the Siege of Valanciennes, both victorious in 1793. They also took part in the Battle of Ceasar's camp, a minor engagement, and the Siege of Dunkirk. In August of the same year the 1st battalions of each Guards regiments took part in the Battle of Lincelles. Just 1000 of the Guards were sent to recapture Lincelles from the French, it had fallen under the Dutch, which was garrisoned by a French force five times their number. The Guards advanced with the professionalism and valour that they so often embody, a feat considering the sheer amount of artillery and small arms fire thrown upon them. Yet despite taking grievous casualties the Foot Guards charged ferociously and swept the village of the French with the Bayonet, Lincelles was the 3rd's first Battle honour. But whilst the British forces in the war were largely successful the same unfortunately could not be said across the theatre which in the end saw victory for France. Though Britain remained at war with France the first coalition had ultimately failed. In 1798 however a second coalition was formed from Austria, Britain, Russia and a number of other smaller states. The war for the Scots Guards began in defeat with an unsuccessful raid on Ostend which saw the 1st Battalion light companies captured by the French. The regiment would soon see tides turned however when, after Nelsons all but destruction of the French fleet at the battle of The Nile trapping the French in Egypt until 1801. It was in that year that an expedition was formed under General Sir Ralph Abercromby. The force landed at Aboukir Bay in a successful amphibious landing despite French opposition. At the battle of Alexandria around 13 days later on the 21st of March the French gave battle, outnumbering the British force by 6000 they had a considerable advantage yet across the line the British force prevailed despite being outmaneuvered by French cavalry, just 1500 British were lost against the 4000 French casualties. Alexandria and Cairo were recaptured a short while later with the regiment gaining it's fourth battle honour with the Sphinx being placed on its colours and Egypt Superscribed below it. | The Napoleonic Wars. 1803-1815. With the Peace of Amiens temporarily ending the French Revolutionary Wars in 1802 hostilities once again flared up in 1803 with the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, though apart from a brief spell of service in Hannover in 1805 and being present at the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807 the regiment did little for a number of years. But on New Years day ,1809, the Battalion sailed for the Peninsula with 43 officers, 71 sergeants, 20 drummers, 1,214 men of the rank and file and 18 women. The regiment would serve under the Duke of Wellington in Spain and Portugal for five years during which time it would gain a further five battle honours and gain a reputation unsurpassed by few. It's first major action in the peninsula was the Passage at the River Douro against Marshal Soult's Army which ended in a well known and impressive victory which sent the French army in full retreat to Amarante. At Talavera in July the French were defeated but not without loss, it is recorded in the general orders that "the Charge made by the Brigade of Guards on the enemies' attacking columns was a most gallant one." The 1st battalion lost 24 men killed and 267 men wounded, though did gain a fifth battle honour. Meanwhile the 2nd Battalion was sent on the ill fated Walcheran expedition into Holland, and though without a single shot fired in anger throughout the battalion the losses were far graver than those at Talavera. In 1810 not long after it's return, though the illness had not yet fully subsided, three companies of healthy men were sent out with two companies of the Coldstream to form a composite battalion for the reinforcement of Cadiz, at the time besieged by the French. In 1810 the 1st Battalion fought in the Battle of Busaco, here a British Portuguese army of 50,000 defeated a larger French army with little difficulty before marching to the Lines of Torres Vedras, a series of fortifications defending Lisbon, here the French were once again defeated. Next year the composite battalion participated in the battle of Barossa outside Cadiz, landing behind the besieging French the 4000 strong British force swiftly attacked, defeated and routed the French force of 10,000 in just two hours. The report states "how gloriously the Brigade of Guards maintained the high character of His Majesty's Household Troops." And so the regiment was awarded it's sixth battle honour. A short while later the 1st Battalion fought in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro which saw another British victory and another battle honour for the Guards |
Battle of Barossa.
Napoleonic Wars history, continued. In May, the 1st Battalion took part in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro and saw the regiment gain another, seventh battle honour being the second one that year. In 1812, the following year, the 1st Battalion gained Salamanca as yet another battle honour for the regiment. By now the French were fully on the backpedal with the Guards participating in a number of minor engagements before the French were sent from Spain once and for all. At the Battle of the River Nive the hardest of the fighting fell on the Guards Brigade where for their services they gained yet another battle honour. At the crossing of the Adour a handful of Coldstream and Third Guards were the first to cross supported by the rather unnerving rocket batteries behind them. Now all that remained was the siege of Bayonne where the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards successfully repelled the final sortie of the French. And though their losses were many this action effectively ended the Peninsula War, and with it the battle honour of Peninsula. Waterloo. At the climax of the Napoleonic Wars it would now be the turn of the 2nd battalion to show it's mettle on behalf of the regiment. At Waterloo itself the 2nd battalion was on the ridge just behind Hougoumont, with its light company in the farm buildings alongside those of the Coldstream and two company's of the First Foot Guards. For much of the day from eleven in the morning till eight in the evening did the foot guards much frustrate the 30,000 Frenchmen determined to capture the farmhouse. | Sergeant A Fraser 2nd Battalion, engaging Colonel Cubieres at Hougoumont. |
The third attack came from the east of the farm, at the orchard. A few companies of the 3rd Guards subsequently confronted the French troops and, after some hard fighting, drove them from the orchard and back into the woods. The fourth attack soon came, this time with the use of a fearsome howitzer, and thus, the Grenadier Company of the 3rd Guards was sent into the woods to destroy the howitzer, but were faced with a superior French force and were forced out of the woods. The 3rd Guards were then sent to repulse the French from the orchard which they duly did, driving the French back into the woods once more.
Further attacks occurred on the farm, and the gallant defenders never wilted in the face of such French attacks, and held the farm against all odds, even when the farm was set ablaze by howitzer fire, the defenders still repulsed all French attacks. The elite Guards had proven their professionalism and valour once more in the field, and contributed greatly to the British and Allied victory at Waterloo, gaining the praise of the Duke of Wellington in the process. The defenders of Hougoumont suffered over 1,000 men killed or wounded during the Battle for Hougoumont, with the 3rd Guards suffering well over 200 men killed or wounded; while the French suffered many thousands of casualties in their numerous attempts to capture the farm. Napoleon was defeated and as before, he was exiled, this time to the British territory of St. Helena, where he would remain until his death in 1821.
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