169th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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169th Infantry Regiment (1st Connecticut)
Coat of arms
Active	1672–1992
Country	United States
Allegiance	Connecticut
Branch	Army National Guard
Type	Infantry
Motto(s)	Armis Stant Leges – Laws are Maintained by the Force of Arms
Engagements	French and Indian War American Revolutionary War Battle of Long Island Battle of Saratoga War of 1812 American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run Spanish–American War Pancho Villa Expedition World War II New Georgia Campaign New Guinea Campaign Battle of Luzon Campaign Streamers American Revolutionary War Saratoga New York 1776 New York 1777 Connecticut 1777 Connecticut 1778 Connecticut 1779 War of 1812 Civil War Bull Run Antietam Fredericksburg Gettysburg Chancelorsville Mississippi River Atlanta Petersburg Georgia 1862 South Carolina 1862 South Carolina 1863 Florida 1863 Virginia 1863 Georgia 1864 Virginia 1864 North Carolina 1865 Mexican Border World War I Champagne-Marne Aisne-Marne St. Mihael Meuse-Argonne Ile de France 1918 Lorraine 1918 World War II Guadalcanal New Guinea Northern Solomons Luzon (with arrowhead) Naples-Foggia Anzio (with arrowhead) Rome-Arno Southern France (with arrowhead) Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe [1]
Commanders
Notable commanders	Kenneth F. Cramer
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

The 169th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army and Connecticut National Guard. The regiment may be traced to English train bands that formed in settlements of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield as these settlements consolidated from 1633 to 1636 and deployed during the Pequot War from 1636 to 1638. As the settlements in what would become Hartford County grew, the militia was reorganized for drill in 1672 essentially into a county regiment. The U.S. Army recognizes the regiment from its reorganization by an act of the Connecticut Assembly on 11 October 1739 as the 1st Connecticut Regiment. It is Connecticut's oldest regiment when considered from its formation of train bands in 1633 to 1636 in Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield.

With its deployment in the Pequot War the regiment continued its deployments in every war of the colonial period to include King Philip's War in the 1670s, the French and Indian or Seven Years War, and in U.S. service from the American Revolution in every war except Vietnam until its last combat battalion was inactivated. The regiment's last combat infantry battalion, a battalion of the 43rd Infantry Brigade, 26th Infantry Division was inactivated in 1992.

The regiment continues its service in the Connecticut Army National Guard as the 169th Regiment (Regional Training Institute). The regiment is a distinguished formation authorized to fly 39 U.S. campaign streamers from its colors.