The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army which was active from 1685 to 1958, when it was merged into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. It was raised by Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort to defend Bristol against the Monmouth Rebellion in the West Country, and the regiment's first action was in Ireland at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. The regiment also fought in Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, put down the Jacobite rising of 1715, fought in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession, fought in Germany and Spain during the Seven Years' War, served in the Caribbean and Netherlands during the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in Spain during the Peninsular War, fought in India, Afghanistan, the Gold Coast, and South Africa during the 19th century, fought on the Western Front of World War I, spent World War II in India, Ceylon, and Burma (while other battalions served in Europe), and the regiment's battalions fought in the Malayan Emergency in Malaysia and the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya during the 1950s.
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