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New South Wales Corps
Active1789–1818
Disbanded24 March 1818 (as the 100th Regiment of Foot)
CountryNew South Wales Corps United Kingdom
BranchBritish Army
TypeLine infantry
SizeOne battalion
Nickname(s)"Rum Corps"
FacingsYellow
Engagements
  • Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
  • Vinegar Hill uprising
  • Rum Rebellion
  • War of 1812
    • Chesapeake campaign
      • Battle of Craney Island
      • Ocracoke raid
      • Battle of St. Michaels
      • Second Battle of St. Michaels
Commanders
Notable
commanders
  • Francis Grose
  • Charles Napier

The New South Wales Corps, later known as the 102d Regiment of Foot, and lastly as the 100th Regiment of Foot, was a formation of the British Army organised in 1789 in England to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, which had accompanied the First Fleet to New South Wales. In Australia, the New South Wales Corps gained notoriety for its trade in rum and mutinous behaviour.

Reconstituted as the 102d Regiment of Foot, it was transferred to Bermuda and Nova Scotia, before taking part in the Chesapeake campaign of the War of 1812. Reconstituted for the second time after the war as the 100th Regiment of Foot, it was disbanded in 1818.

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