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The 42nd Regiment of Foot, also known as the Black Watch, was a Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army which was active from 1725 to 1881. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1715, the British government raised a militia in the Scottish Highlands from among local Whig clans in order to maintain public order in Scotland. The 42nd Regiment was nicknamed the "Black Watch" for their manner of dress. The regiment went on to serve in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession (first fighting at the disastrous Battle of Fontenoy in 1745), in North America during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, in Egypt during the French Revolutionary Wars, in Portugal and Spain during the Peninsular War, at the Battle of Waterloo during the Hundred Days, in Bermuda during the early Victorian era, in the Crimean War, and in India during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. In 1881, the regiment was merged into the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).

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