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128th Regiment of Foot

infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1794 and disbanded in 1796

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ4548609 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 128th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1794 and disbanded in 1796.

Editorial summary

“128th Regiment of Foot” enters the record as infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1794 and disbanded in 1796. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 128th, Regiment and Foot can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1794, 1796—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1794-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 128th, Regiment and Foot.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4548609. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1794 and 1796.

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This entry incorporates text from “128th Regiment of Foot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.