92nd Regiment of Foot (1779)

92nd Regiment of Foot
Active	1779–1783
Country	Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Commanders
Colonel of the Regiment	Lt-Col. Hon. James Stuart-Wortley

The 92nd Regiment of Foot, also known as the Yorkshire Rangers, was a short-lived infantry regiment in the British Army which was raised in 1779 to provide garrison troops for the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War.^[1]

The colonel-commandant of the regiment was Lt-Col. Hon. James Stuart-Wortley, second son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.

After spending several years stationed in Jamaica, the regiment was disbanded in England after the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

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