The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, formerly the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment that was active from 1685 to 1968. The regiment served in the Williamite War in Ireland, in Flanders during the War of the Grand Alliance, in the Caribbean and Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Caribbean during the War of Jenkins' Ear (suffering 90% losses in Colombia due to disease), in the Jacobite rising of 1745, in New York during the American Revolutionary War, in the Caribbean during the French Revolutionary Wars, in Spain during the Peninsular War, in South Africa during the Xhosa Wars, in India during the Sepoy Rebellion, in South Africa during the Second Boer War, in France and Gallipoli during World War I, in all theaters of World War II, in the Korean War, in the Cyprus Emergency, in the Aden Emergency, and in the Palestinian Civil War before merging into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968.
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