The 85th Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 53rd Regiment of Foot to form the King's Shropshire Light Infant
George Nugent, the regiment's founder
The Battle of New Orleans, at which the regiment carried out a successful attack, January 1815
John Forster FitzGerald
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Field Marshal Sir John Forster FitzGerald, was a soldier from Ireland who served as an officer in the British Army. He fought in the Peninsular War, seeing action at the Battle of Badajoz, the Battle
Tours Cathedral which, on FitzGerald's death, was the scene of a funeral with the full military honours normally prescribed for a marshal of France
