The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a regiment in the British Army.
It was formed as a fusilier regiment in 1685 by Lord Dartmouth, George Legge, from two companies of the Tower of London guard, and originally called the Ordnance Regiment. Most regiments were equipped with matchlockmuskets at the time, but the Ordnance Regiment were armed with flintlocks, then called fusils. This was because their task was to be an escort for the artillery, for which matchlocks would have carried the risk of igniting the barrels of gunpowder.
It became the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) in 1751. It was reorganised as the infantry regiment that recruited from within the City of London area on 1 July1881 as part of the Cardwell reforms. It therefore took on the role of the "county" regiment for the City of London and was renamed The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) is a regular Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division, and known (for short) as 'The RHF'.
The Regiment's 'achievements' as born on the colours and on the drums are: The Royal Cypher and The White Horse of Hanover, St Andrew, The Castle and Key of Gibraltar and the Assaye Elephant.
In 2004, as part of the restructuring of the British infantry, the UK Ministry of Defence proposed that the Royal Highland Fusiliers be merged with the other surviving Scottish infantry regiments as part of a single unit with a provisional title of the 'RoyalRegiment of Scotland'.
It was formed as a fusilierregiment in 1685 by Lord Dartmouth, George Legge, from two companies of the Tower of London guard, and originally called the Ordnance Regiment.
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