Volunteers of Ireland | |
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Active | 1778–1784 |
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Branch | Infantry |
Type | British provincial unit and later, became British establishment |
Size | regiment (1,000) |
Engagements | American Revolutionary War
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The Volunteers of Ireland, also known as the 2nd American Regiment and the 105th Regiment of Foot, was a British Provincial military unit, raised for Loyalist service, during the American Revolutionary War, which was later added to the British regular army. The Volunteers of Ireland should not be confused with the contemporaneous Irish Volunteers an autonomous militia that supported the Irish Patriot Party, in the 1770s and 1780s.