page_title: Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
section_title: French Revolutionary Wars
hierarchical_section_title: Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) / History / French Revolutionary Wars
caption_attribution_description: English: This work depicts a scene from the Battle of Albuera on 16 May 1811. Fought during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), the engagement saw the 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs) deployed with Major-General John Colborne's 1st Brigade. They sustained heavy casualties after being surrounded by Polish and French lancers.
context_page_description: The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), formerly the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army traditionally raised in the English county of Kent and garrisoned at Canterbury. It had a history dating back to 1572 and was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army, being third in order of precedence. The regiment provided distinguished service over a period of almost four hundred years accumulating one hundred and sixteen battle honours. In 1881, under the Childers Reforms, it was known as the Buffs and later, on 3 June 1935, was renamed the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  In 1961, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment to form the Queen's Regiment. This regiment was, in turn, amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, in September 1992, to create the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
context_section_description: The regiment was sent to the West Indies in December 1795 for service in the French Revolutionary Wars. It took part in the capture of Grenada in March 1796 and of Saint Vincent in June 1796 and the capture of Trinidad in February 1797 and of various other islands in March 1801 before returning home in autumn 1802.
caption: Buffs at the Battle of Albuhera in May 1811 by William Barnes Wollen
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