13th Regiment of Foot
By the late seventeenth century, each regiment of the standing army had been alloted a "rank" in the order of precedence. These numbers came to be increasingly used until a royal warrant of 1751 decreed that regiments should in future be known by their numbers only. Accordingly Pulteney's Regiment became the 13th Regiment of Foot.
The redesignated 13th Foot entered a thirty year period of garrison service in England, Ireland, Gibraltar and Minorca.
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