Active 1776-1783 Allegiance British Army | Country Great Britain Size regiment (1,000) | |
Branch associators, then British provincial unit, then renamed 4th American Regiment, then American Establishment, and then British Establishment Type infantry, artillery, (auxiliary troops) | ||
The King's American Regiment was a British provincial regiment which was raised for Loyalist service, during the American Revolutionary War.
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Regiment formed
The "King's American Regiment" was raised, in the Province of New York, in December, 1776, by Colonel Edmund Fanning, as the "Associated Refugees".
Campaigns
The King's American Regiment served in the 1777 attacks on Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, the Southern Campaign 1780-1781, the 1780 Siege of Charleston, the 1781 raids on Newport and Richmond, Virginia, and the 1781 Campaigns in Province of Georgia and East Florida.
Regiment disbanded and resettled in British Canada
The King's American Regiment was brought into the American Establishment, on March 7, 1781 and renamed the "4th American Regiment". The regiment later, joined the British Establishment, on December 25, 1782, possibly as the "110th Regiment of Foot" and disbanded, in British Canada, in 1783.