History of The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment

Chapter 1	THE EARLIEST DAYS 1689-1755 30th Foot 40th Foot 47th Foot 59th Foot
Chapter 2	SEVEN YEARS WAR 1756-63 Louisburg Quebec
Chapter 3	AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1755-83
Chapter 4	FIRST COUNTY TITLES 1782 30th (The Cambridgeshire Regiment) 40th (2nd Somersetshire Regiment) 47th (The Lancashire Regiment) 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire Regiment)
Chapter 5	THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1793-1802 81st and 82nd Regiments The Mediterranean and Egypt The West Indies Holland
Chapter 6	THE NAPOLEONIC WARS 1803-15
Chapter 7	THE PENINSULA WAR 1808-14 Antwerp The East Indies
Chapter 8	WATERLOO 1815
Chapter 9	WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES 1812-1814
Chapter 10	OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE 1815 1854 3rd Mahratta War1817-18 t Persian Gulf 1819 1st Burmese War 1825-26 Bhurtpore 1826. 1st Afghan War 1839-42 Maharajpore 1843 Australia 1854
Chapter 11	CRIMEAN WAR 1854-55
Chapter 12	SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN 1856-81 China 1857 The Indian Mutiny 1857 The Maori Wars 1860-66 The Fenian Raid 1866 2nd Afghan War 1878-80
Chapter 13	ARMY REORGANISATION 1873 & 1881
Chapter 14	SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902
Chapter 15	FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-18 France and Flanders 1914-18 East Africa 1914-16 Gallipoli 1915 Egypt and Palestine 1915-18 Mesopotamia Macedonia
Chapter 16	BETWEEN THE WARS 1918-1939
Chapter 17	SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-45 Dunkirk 1940 Singapore1942 Madagascar 1942 Tunisia 1943 Italy 1944 Normandy 1944 Holland and Germany 1944-45 Burma 1944-4
Chapter 18	THE POST-WAR YEARS 1945-70 Reductions 1945-49 Malaya 1950’s The Lancashire Regiment (PWV) 1958 Aden 1967
Chapter 19	THE QUEEN’S LANCASHIRE REGIMENT 1970
Chapter 20	AMALGAMATION 2006

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History of The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment