The Royal Welch Fusiliers, formerly known as the 23rd Regiment of Foot, was a British Army infantry regiment which was active from 1689 to 2006. The regiment was first raised at Ludlow, Shropshire following the Glorious Revolution and served in the Williamite War in Ireland and the War of the Grand Alliance, in the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession, in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession, in Germany during the Seven Years' War, in North America during the American Revolutionary War (suffering heavy losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill), fighting in the Caribbean, Saint-Domingue, the Netherlands, and Egypt during the French Revolutionary Wars, served in Spain during the Peninsular War, in the Crimean War, in the Second Opium War, in the Sepoy Mutiny, the Third Anglo-Burmese War, the Second Boer War, in the Boxer Rebellion, on the Western Front of World War I, in France, South Asia, and Normandy during World War II, in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, in the Gulf War, and in the Yugoslav Wars. In 2006, the regiment merged into the Royal Welsh.
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