The first infantry regiment was formed in the United States Army ad it was constituted on March 3, 1791. The colors were blue and white and the motto was "Semper Primus Always First."
yes Chapdog82--- Frederick Douglass was a major civil rights activist in the 19th Century Noted for Books and Speeches on Slavery and Oppression. He was NOT a regiment! Two of his sons served in the 54th Massachussets Regiment. Which was not the first black regiment formed but one of the first Northen Black Regiments formed. the first Recruited regiment was probably the 1st Louisianna Native Guards or The First South Carolina Colored infantry. The first black regiment to fight was the 1 Kansas Colored.
The Parachute Regiment, or Paras, is the British Army airborne unit and is attached to the Special Forces Support Group, or SFSG. It was first formed in 1941 during World War II as the 11th Special Air Services Battalion, later changed to the 1st Parachute Brigade.
As a newly formed African American regiment partly composed of former slaves, they wanted to prove their equality with the white troops, and actively fight for their newly won freedom.
If you're referring to the Jamaica Defense Force then that was constituted in 1962 from the West India Regiment (WIR), a British colonial regiment, which dates back to 1795 when the first West India Regiment was formed in the Windward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean.
Freed slaves served in the American Revolution, The War of 1812 and the Civil War. The First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first Union regiment formed with freed slaves in the Civil War.
First American Regiment was created in 1784.
a brigade
First Regiment Armory Annex was created in 1891.
The Jamaica Regiment's motto is 'First and Foremost'.
54th regiment
a brigade
South African First City Regiment was created in 1875.