title: 87th Regiment of Foot (1779)
text: # 87th Regiment of Foot (1779)
  
  The 87th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised to help garrison the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War.
  
  ## History
  
  The regiment was raised at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire by George Waldegrave in July 1779. It was despatched to the Leeward Islands under the command of Lieutenant-colonel George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, arriving in January 1780. It returned home in 1783 at the end of hostilities and was disbanded at Coventry in April that year.
  
  