EIGHTY-SECOND FOOT.
The Regiment was chiefly raised in Yorkshire and adjoining counties.
It received its Title and Badge of the Plume of the Prince of Wales when raised at the request of its Colonel, who was a gentleman of the Prince of Wales’s household.
The first Regiment numbered the 82nd was the 82nd Invalid=s, made the 72nd in 1763, and formed into Independent Companies in 1769.
The second was the 82nd Duke of Hamilton’s, raised in 1778, and disbanded in 1783.