1 R IRISH moves to Fort George, Inverness, Scotland.
Event
Mon, 09/15/2003
Having handed over Howe Barracks, Canterbury, to the 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment conducted an Arms Plot Move and took over Fort George, Inverness, Scotland, from the 1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers.
On 16 April 1746, our Regiment's forebears, Blakeney's Inniskillings, were at the Battle of Culloden when Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite force was defeated by King George II's army. Soon after, the government decided to construct Fort George at Inverness to counter any future threat from the Highlands and the fort was completed in 1769.
