The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army. Originally the 43rd Highlanders they were renumbered to 42nd in 1749 on the disbanding of the existing 42nd Regiment, which was known as the "Highland Independent Regiment" and as "Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot".
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“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“And so on into winter
Till even I have ceased
To come as a foot printer,
And only some slight beast
So mousy or so foxy
Shall print there as my proxy.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)