85th Regiment of Foot (Royal Volunteers)

For other units with the same regimental number, see 85th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation).
85th Regiment of Foot (Royal Volunteers)
Active1759–1763
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment		Col. John Craufurd

The 85th Regiment of Foot (Royal Volunteers) was a short-lived British Army regiment during the Seven Years' War. It was recruited at Shrewsbury in 1759 as the first full regiment of light infantry in the British Army and originally intended for service in the North American campaign of the war (French and Indian War). The unit was raised in 1759 by William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath. His son William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney served as the unit's lieutenant-colonel from its foundation until his 1763 death by a fever in Madrid.

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