, first colonel of the regiment
Formation The regiment was raised, from officers who had previously served in the
Scots Brigade, by General
Francis Dundas as the
Scotch Brigade on 9 October 1794. The regiment embarked for
Gibraltar in November 1795 and then moved on to
South Africa in 1796 and the
siege of Seringapatam in April 1799 during the
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. It was renumbered as the
94th Regiment of Foot in December 1802. At Gawilghur, Captain Campbell led the light company of the regiment up the assault ladders and over the walls of the fort, which had previously been considered impregnable, and then let the rest of the British force in through the main gate.
Napoleonic Wars The regiment sailed for
Jersey in April 1809 and was then embarked for
Portugal in August 1809 for service in the
Peninsular War. Captain
Archibald Maclaine led a detachment of 155 men who held back Marshal
Soult with a force of 8.000 men. Maclaine was knighted for this exploit and promoted to Major. The regiment then saw action at the
Battle of Sabugal in April 1811, the
Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811 It then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the
Battle of Nivelle in November 1813, the
Battle of the Nive in December 1813 and the
Battle of Orthez in February 1814 as well as the
Battle of Toulouse in April 1814.
The Victorian era depicted in uniform as colonel of the regiment circa 1825 The regiment was reformed in
Glasgow (and subsequently confirmed as the successor of the predecessor formation with full continuity of battle honours), in response to the threat posed by the
French intervention in Spain, in December 1823. Of the initial appointments, two of the officers had previous service in the 94th Regiment of Foot (Major Allan and Captain Bogle). and it was presented with its new
regimental colours in April 1825 The regiment was posted to
Ceylon in October 1838, The regiment embarked for England in March 1854. Some volunteers departed for service in the
Crimean War in November 1854 and the service companies left for Gibraltar in September 1855. and then transferred to
Peshawar in the
North-West Frontier region in October 1858. The regiment embarked for South Africa in spring 1879 and saw action at the
Battle of Ulundi in July 1879 during the
Anglo-Zulu War. The regiment remained in South Africa with its eight companies widely distributed throughout the Transvaal, garrisons being established in
Pretoria (E and G companies),
Lydenburg (A and F companies),
Wakkerstroom (C company),
Marabastad (B company),
Standerton (H company) and
Newcastle in northern Natal (D company). It was during the re-concentration of the companies, in response to outbreaks of civil disorder by the Boers, that A and F companies were attacked at
Battle of Bronkhorstspruit in December 1880 in the opening clash of the
First Boer War: the two companies saw 156 of their soldiers killed or wounded, with the rest taken prisoner. The other six companies of the regiment spent the war being besieged by the Boers: C, D and H in Standerton, E and G in Pretoria, B in Marabastad, and a small detachment of 50 men in Lydenburg. As part of the
Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 94th was linked with the
89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot and assigned to district no. 65 at
Gough Barracks in
Armagh. On 1 July 1881 the
Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the
88th Regiment of Foot to form the
Connaught Rangers. ==Battle honours==