Europe
During the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars the regiment raised a 2nd battalion. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Nieuport, Battle of Tournay, St. Lucia, Battle of Talavera, Battle of Salamanca, Battle of Vittoria, Battle of Nivelle and the Battle of Toulouse.
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“The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.”
—George Bush (b. 1924)
“In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europe has endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form ...”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)