Victoria Era 34th Regiment a Foot Shako Badge
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You are viewing a large (almost 8 cm top to bottom) brass cap badge for the 34th Cumberland Regiment. This badge was established in 1782 after the name changes of the first reforms and has become part of the early pre-Confederation history of Upper Canada. A very clean relic of a bygone era, with both original lug type fasteners intact and in good order. A rare find among Victoria era cap badges.
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History ...
The 34th Regiment of Foot
was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1702 and amalgamated with
the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot, into The Border Regiment on 1 July 1881.
Posted to Minorca in 1755, the Regiment was besieged by a larger French force under Marshal Duke De Richelieu and retreated in good order to Fort St Phillip. After a vigorous and gallant defence of two months' duration,
at one point watching themselves being abandoned by the fleet under Admiral Byng, the fort capitulated, the garrison being allowed to depart to Gibraltar with drums beating, colours flying, muskets in hand, and 20 rounds of
ammunition per man. In 1758 they raided the French coast along with the 24th, 34th and 72nd Regiments. The attacks in Brittany
went well and were quite disruptive, but a large French reinforcement of the area rebuffed them with considerable loss during the departure from St-Cas. In 1762 they joined the British expedition against Cuba and were part of the siege of
Fort Morro. After a long and difficult battle the fort and soon afterwards the City of Havana were taken. In 1776 they were again called upon, this time to lift the siege
of Quebec enacted by the over ambitious Yankee Revolutionary Army. After numerous small skirmishes, the force drove out
the American rebels and pushed them down through Lake Champlain. Lieutenant General
Guy Carleton, the commander at Quebec,
however, did not follow up these successes and allowed the American forces a year of peace and, of course they regrouped. In July
1777 a detachment of the regiment took part in the Siege of Fort Stanwix. Later they served with a Native American force and the King's Royal Regiment of New York under the command
of Chief Joseph Brant, ambushed the
Americans successfully at the Battle of Oriskany. Throughout the rest of the war, under command of Lieutenant Colonel St. Leger, the Regiment
garrisoned numerous forts in the St Lawrence and Lake Ontario, conducted raids and acted as marines on gunboats. 1782 saw the
Regiment granted the county title as the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot returning to Britain in 1786. The Regiment served with distinction in the
Peninsular Campaign of the
Napoleonic Wars. from 1837-39. The 34th(Cumberland)Regiment were a part of the 11,000 British regulars sent to put down the rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada.
Posted to Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada during the Upper Canada Rebellion
of 1837 they engaged Rebel forces at Pelee Island, and fought in the Battle of Windsor, as well as protecting against the American 'Hunter Lodges'
raiding across the border. In 1881 as part of the reforms the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment became 1st Battalion of The Border
Regiment and was amalgamated with the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment, which became 2nd Battalion, of The Border Regiment.