28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot Blow Torch The unit was described as

The unit was described as "lying dead in a square"

now had only 81

In 1782 it was decided to link regiments to a county and it then became the 33rd or 1st Yorkshire West Riding

Their uniforms were based closely upon those of the Foot Grenadiers

28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot Blow Torch The unit was described as28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot The regiment was first raised as Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot in 1694, disbanded in 1697, but reformed under the same colonel in 1702 during the War of the Spanish Succession and fought at the Battle of Elixheim in 1705 and at Ramillies in 1706. They saw action in Spain, Flanders, Canada and North America during the Independence War and Flanders again, France the West Indies, Gibraltar and Menorca