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Incorrect capitalisation
The definite article does not need capitalising on British Regiments. Please see here http://www.army.mod.uk/music/23949.aspx There in nice bold letters it says "Band of the Coldstream Guards" No capital "T". and this is the British Army's own webpage. what better authority can there be? thanks IdreamofJeanie (talk) 14:00, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

A better authority than the mistake-riddled internet would be historians who get these details correct and reference actual army regulations, rather than web page makers, who do not. Battalions are listed as "2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment" because a capitalised "The" is part of the unit's official title. They are informally called "2nd Essex", "2nd Bn, Essex Regt", etc, but that doesn't change their official titles, which is surely what Wikipedia articles should strive to use. In the Second World War the official name of every infantry regiment in the British Army (except "Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)"), had, as part of it's official title, the definite article "The", capitalised. See Army Badges and Insignia of World War 2, Book 1, by Guido Rosignoli, Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset, 1981. Or see The Regimental Records of the British Army 1660-1901, J.S. Farmer, Crecy Books, 1984. The use of "The" can also be seen in the Canadian Army, whose websites are better for correctly using full legal regimental names than the British Army website which, though you reference it, is still using incorrect nomenclature. Historians like Rossignoli and Farmer use the proper, official, and authorised names of the regiments, not the shorthand, nicknames, and incorrect grammar used by soldiers and web site administrators. As a trusted online source, it's up to Wikipedia to be correct, not just repeat the grammar mistakes made by the average person on other websites on the internet. This means having experts on military topics editing and correcting military web sites, as I have done here. For a better example than that of the British Army, check out the listings of units at the official Canadian Army web site; here's a sample page (http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/en/western/units-formations.page?). Regiments that do NOT have a capitalised "The" in their title (like "Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)" or for a number of years "Victoria Rifles of Canada") stick out as exceptions to the rule (as do units whose titles start with numbers, like Commonwealth cavalry regiments often do/did). On my bookshelves the following books all confirm this: The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army, Army Historical Section, Queen's Printer, 1964 (which shows the time periods when Canadian regiments like The Victoria Rifles of Canada and The Governor General's Foot Guards added and dropped "The" from their titles); Badges of The Canadian Forces, Department of National Defence, 1976; or DUCIMUS: The Regiments of The Canadian Infantry, Michael Mitchell, Director of Infantry, 1992. Seathanaich (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)Seathanaich

Devil's Brigade
Please don't insert comments or questions into the text of an article. I modified your question in Devil's Brigade into the correct format using a clarify tag here. Anything complicated should go on the Talk page rather than inline. Meters (talk) 18:08, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

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