1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry

1st Greek Light Infantry Regiment
Active1810–16
Disbanded1816
Country United States of the Ionian Islands
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeLight infantry
RoleExpeditionary warfare
Size1-2 battalions
Garrison/HQZakynthos, United States of the Ionian Islands
PatronPrince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Engagements
Commanders
First CommanderRichard Church
Notable
commanders
Theodoros Kolokotronis

The 1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry (1810–12) was a light infantry regiment, founded as a local establishment in British service consisting mostly of Greek and Albanian enlisted men and Greek and British officers that served during the Napoleonic Wars. Later it became a regular British Army regiment as the 1st Greek Light Infantry ("The Duke of York's") (1812–16). It had no official association with the modern state of Greece or the Filiki Eteria or any Greek War of Independence groups; however, several future leaders of the War of Independence fought in its ranks, as did a number of rank-and-file klephts and armatoloi.


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