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The King's Royal Regiment of New York was one of the first Loyalist regiments raised (June 19, 1776) in Canada during the American Revolutionary War. Raised by exiled Loyalist leader Sir John Johnson from American refugees fleeing rebel persecution, 〔(King's Royal Regiment of New York - Carleton to Barrington, 8th June 1776. ''The On-Line Institute for advances Loyalist Studies'' ) Retrieved July 4, 2015.〕 the regiment served with distinction throughout the war, launching raids and relief missions into the Mohawk Valley of New York. The regiment was instrumental in the siege of Fort Stanwix during the expedition of Colonel Barry St. Leger down the Mohawk River Valley in the summer of 1777, and saw action at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777, Carleton's Raid (1778) and the devastating raid on the Schoharie Valley in 1780. Along with American Indian allies and fellow provincial regiments such as Butler's Rangers, the regiment fought a series of low-level raiding campaigns through the Mohawk Valley. This region was a major agricultural area of New York, and these raids were intended to interdict the supply of foodstuffs to General George Washington's army while pressuring the Revolution's political leaders in the region, who were actively persecuting loyalist residents as traitors aiding and supplying British troops. The regiment eventually comprised two battalions. Following the war, the first battalion was disbanded in 1783 and the second battalion in 1784. Members of the regiment were granted land along the St. Lawrence River valley and Bay of Quinte in modern Ontario and were among the first settlers of Upper Canada, later the province of Ontario in Canada. == Raising the regiment: 1776 == On 19 May 1776, Sir John Johnson left his home at Johnson Hall in the Mohawk Valley and travelled with his family and approximately 200 retainers through the Adirondack Mountains to Montreal. They arrived on 15 June, just days after Governor Sir Guy Carleton's army recaptured the city. Johnson soon left Montreal to chase the retreating Continental Army southwards down the Richelieu Valley towards Lake Champlain. He met Carleton at Fort Chambly, where the Governor authorized Johnson to raise the King's Royal Regiment of New York. Initially, the members of the regiment comprised Johnson's refugee retainers from his estates in the Mohawk Valley, but the steady stream of loyalist refugees fleeing to Montreal provided a ready source of recruits for the King's Royal Yorkers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King's Royal Regiment of New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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