All Posts

When Duncan Robinson was discharged from the 49th Regiment of Foot on July 31, 1786, he was sixty years old, of which he had spent thirty-two years and two months as a soldier. This in itself was not particularly unusual - the British ranks in the American Revolution consisted largely of career soldiers, men who joined the army not for a fixed duration, but with the expectation of serving until their health no longer allowed it. Robinson, a native of Perthshire in Scotland, h

Read posts from the old blog: https://redcoat76.blogspot.com/