English Explanatory Dictionary

Blind Half-Hundred

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot.

Word forms

Blind Half-Hundred the Blind Half-Hundred

Etymology

So called because many members suffered from ophthalmia.

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