The Swiss Regiment de Meuron Serving in British Army

From Wikipedia.

I looked this regiment was the one transported to Canada on the HMS Regulus who left all those fleas for the Americans so I determined to find out information about them.

The Regiment de Meuron was organized in Switzerland in 1781.  For the most part, it sounded to me as if they were mercenaries.  They served with the Dutch East India Company and they were named for their commander, Colonel Charles-Daniel de Meuron.

While in the service of the Dutch, evidently they stopped getting paid and then entered service with the British (who were in conflict with the Dutch at the time).  The regiment fought in the Napoleonic Wars before being posted to Canada in the War of 1812.

--Brock-Perry