74th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

• 1787 raised as 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 merged with 71st (Highland) Light Infantry to become the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
• 1959 amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
• 2003 amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
• 2006 known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)

External Links

Historical Books Online

Historical Record of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment (Highlanders) containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1787, and of its subsequent services to 1850 by Richard Cannon 1850 Google Books . The Regiment sailed for Madras in 1788, page 4

Other

• 74th Regiment of Foot: Officers dying in India 1790-1804 Your Archives
• 74th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
• Highland Light Infantry Wikipedia
• Royal Highland Fusiliers Wikipedia
• Royal Regiment of Scotland Wikipedia