The 40th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot to form
1855–1861 regimental shako plate for other ranks
A regimental private in 1742
c. 1751 painting of a regimental grenadier (left)
A regimental grenadier in 1767
Dummer's War
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Dummer's War was a series of battles between the New England Colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy, who were allied with New France. The eastern theater of the war was located primarily along the bord
40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
…Philipps as the Richard Philipps's Regiment of Foot in August 1717 out of independent companies stationed in North America and the West Indies. Prior to Father Rale's War, the Mi'kmaq responded to the establishment of a British fort at Canso, Nova Scotia by raiding the settlement's fishing station in 1720. Phillips sent…
Battle of Norridgewock (1724): Death of Father Sébastien Rale
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts William Dummer
The Father Rale memorial at the battle site in Madison, Maine
Death of Chief Paugus