
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) was the oldest British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1633 and active until 2006, when it merged into the Royal Scots Borderers. The regiment was raised during the Thirty Years' War, and it absorbed Scottish units in the Swedish army, totalling 8,000 men by 1635. The regiment served in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Franco-Dutch War, the Battle of Sedgemoor, the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, in North America during the Seven Years' War, in the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War, in the Haitian Revolution, in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the War of 1812, in the Peninsular War, in the British conquest of India, in the Crimean War, in the Opium Wars, in the Second Boer War, on the Western Front of World War I, in the Anglo-Irish War, in the Great Arab Revolt, in Europe and Burma during World War II, in the Korean War, in the Aden Emergency, in the Gulf War, and the Iraq War.