sentences:  In 1739 ten Independent Highland Companies were embodied into a regiment of the line.The regiment then was officially known as the 43rd Highlanders (later renumbered the 42nd and also known as the "Black Watch" ).The regiment's first action together came at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 against the French, however George Munro of Culcairn had retired from the regiment in 1744.