26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot

26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot
Colours of the regiment in 1862
Active1689–1881
Country Kingdom of Scotland (1689–1707)

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1881)
BranchArmy
TypeLine Infantry
Garrison/HQHamilton Barracks, Hamilton
March"Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town"
EngagementsNine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
Jacobite risings
American Revolutionary War
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
First Opium War
Crimean War
British Expedition to Abyssinia

The 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the Scots Army and subsequently a Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, active from 1689 to 1881. Although the regiment took the name of its first colonel as The Earl of Angus's Regiment, it became popularly known as The Cameronians until 1751, when it was ranked as the 26th Foot. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) to form the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881. The Cameronians were themselves disbanded in 1968, meaning that no Army unit today perpetuates the lineage of the 26th Foot.