The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, formerly the 10th Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment which was active from 1685 to 1960. The regiment was raised by John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath and served as the garrison of Plymouth; the regiment fought in the Low Countries during the War of the Grand Alliance, in Germany and France during the War of the Spanish Succession, in America during the American Revolutionary War, in Egypt during the French Revolutionary Wars, in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, in India during the British conquest of India, in Yokohama during the Boshin War, in Sudan during the Mahdist War, in South Africa during the Second Boer War, on the Western Front of World War I, and in Europe during World War II. In 1959, the regiment merged into the Royal Anglian Regiment.