The 88th Regiment of Foot was an infantry Regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 94th Regiment of Foot to form the Connaught Rangers in 1881.
The 88th Foot (right) at the Battle of Salamanca
Officers of the 88th Foot during the Crimean War
Colonel Edmund Jeffreys of the 88th Foot in c. 1858
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellingto
88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
…1807. The 1st Battalion landed in Portugal in March 1809 for service in the Peninsular War. It formed part of the Portuguese forces commanded by General William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford tasked with removing Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult from Porto. It held firm at the top of Medellin hill at the Battle of Talavera in July 1809. Then, at…
Portrait of Lord Beresford by William Beechey, 1815
William Carr Beresford surrenders to Santiago de Liniers in Buenos Aires, 1806
Field-marshal Beresford – Coudelaria de Alter, Portugal
The Battle of Albuera by William Barnes Wollen