Description: The Colonel's Company of the 33rd Foot is a re-created Company of one of the finest marching Regiments to serve King George III during the American War for Independence
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Based in Southern California, The Colonel's Company of the 33rd Foot is a re-created company of one of the finest British marching Regiments to serve King George during the American War for Independence. Don't take our word for it, listen to the experts:
"I am bound to record here that I have felt a certain shamefacedness, on visiting the barracks of the 33rd Regiment, who were commanded by the young Earl of Cornwallis, to compare their high state of appointment and the steadiness of their discipline with the slovenly and relaxed bearing of most of our own companies. One can always correctly judge a regiment by the behaviour of its sentries. I have seen men go on duty in the 9th dead drunk and scarcely able to stand, but with the 33rd the sentry was always
[the 33rd's drill and discipline is] " Established upon the truest principles, far Superior to any other Corps within my observation" . - Major General William Howe