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- Volunteers_of_Ireland comment "The Volunteers of Ireland (aka 2nd American Regiment and the 105th Regiment of Foot) was a British provincial military unit during the American Revolutionary War which was added to the British regular army.It was formed by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, an Irish lord who had joined the British army and risen through the officer ranks, Rawdon had been given permission to form a British regiment from Irishmen serving in other provincial units in the Thirteen Colonies.The unit was raised in Philadelphia in the fall of 1777 and went to New York with the army in April 1778. ".