Regiment de Meuron
The Regiment de Meuron was in 1781, initially in Switzerland excavated, infantry regiment . The regiment was named after its commander, Colonel Charles-Daniel de Meuron , who was born in Neuchâtel in 1738 .
It served the Dutch East India Company in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and Cape Town . When the British cast an eye on Ceylon, a delegation was sent there to take control of the regiment. The regiment refused to fight the Dutch and they considerably reduced the Dutch forces in Ceylon and gave details of the fortification to the British. As a result, they switched to the British, meaning that the regiment's soldiers were enrolled at the same rate as those of the British Army and given the back payment that the Dutch East India Co. owed them.
By 1789, when all these problems were resolved, the regiment was part of the British Army. They served in the Mysore -Feldzug of 1799, the Napoleonic Wars and the Napoleonic wars in the Iberian Peninsula from 1806 to 1812, and eventually moved to Canada to the British-American War and in the Red River Colony to serve. It was dissolved in 1816. The rue des Meurons in the suburb of Saint-Boniface in the province of Manitoba is named after the regiment.