100th Regiment of Foot (1760)

other units with the same regimental number 100th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation) October 2023 100th Regiment of Foot (Campbell's Highlanders) 1760–1763 United Kingdom United Kingdom Line Infantry One battalion Invasion of MartiniqueSiege of Havana (detatchment) The 100th Regiment of Foot, also known as Campbell's Highlanders, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1760 and disbanded in 1763. It saw service in the Caribbean during the Seven Years' War. History The regiment was raised in 1760 by combining four independent companies of infantry raised in Argyll by Alexander Ross, Neil Campbell, Alexander Macdonald and John MacHarg.Whitton, p. 2 They were formed into a regiment in 1761.Brander, p. 207 It was at first sent for garrison duty in Jersey, where it was joined by a fifth independent company raised under Thomas Nightingale, then sailed for the Caribbean in September 1761.Whitton, pp. 2-3 At this point the regiment had a strength of 521 men.Baldry W. Y. White A. S. DISBANDED REGIMENTS. The 100th Foot Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 1922 1 5 205–211 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44219136 0037-9700 In 1762, they saw service at the Invasion of Martinique from France, in a brigade under General William Haviland, with a detachment serving at the Siege of Havana in a brigade under Lord Rollo, where it took heavy losses.Whitton, pp. 3-4 By September 1763, only seven officers and 140 men were fit for service. With the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the regiment returned to the United Kingdom and was disbanded in Scotland. The unofficial title Campbell's Highlanders was adopted from its first Major-Commandant, Colin Campbell; a similar title was used, at the same time, by the 88th Foot.http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/100-760.htm regiments.org 100th Regiment of Foot (Campbell's Highlanders) https://web.archive.org/web/20071016201923/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/100-760.htm 16 October 2007 dead 15 February 2007 Major Campbell While in Jersey, Captain John MacHarg embezzled the money meant for his company's pay, leaving the soldiers to beg in the streets, and leading to an attack which burned down the pay office. MacHarg was later killed by his commander, Major Colin Campbell, who was tried by court-martial for murder but escaped, and was dismissed from the Army. Major John Broughton was appointed commander for the remainder of the regiment's existence.Whitton, p. 5 Broughton was formerly a captain in the 45th Regiment of Foot.Preferments https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000545/17620906/012/0056 The Scots Magazine 6 September 1762 On his return to England in 1764 Campbell brought charges against General Robert Monckton, the commander of the expedition, alleging ill-treatment of both himself and his regiment, including objections that they had been made to change their weapons with another unit, kept from the fighting, and used to transport ammunition. The trial considered that this was because the men were unfit for service, mostly old men and boys, and dismissed all of Campbell's complaints.An account of the trial of Maj-Gen Monckton https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000545/17640701/006/0020 The Scots Magazine 1 July 1764 References Sources The Scottish highlanders and their regiments Brander Michael 1971 Seeley, Service and Co. 0-85422-012-7 Whitton Frederick Ernest The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians): Volume 1: The Old Army 1924 https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol1/ Category:Infantry regiments of the British Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1760 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1763