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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Royal Highlanders in 1780, and of its subsequent services to 1851''] by Richard Cannon 1851. Google Books. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC&pg=PA6  page 6] in 1781 in Madras
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Royal Highlanders in 1780, and of its subsequent services to 1851''] by Richard Cannon 1851. Google Books. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC&pg=PA6  page 6] in 1781 in Madras
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/596/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] "Forty-Second or Royal Highland Regiment Second Battalion. Long the Seventy-Third Regiment" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  The Regiment reached India in 1782, page 597
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/596/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] "Forty-Second or Royal Highland Regiment Second Battalion. Long the Seventy-Third Regiment" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  The Regiment reached India in 1782, page 597
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/40/mode/2up "Forty-Second, or Royal Highland Regiment, Second Battalion, now the Seventy-Third Regiment"], page 40 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/40/mode/2up "Forty-Second, or Royal Highland Regiment, Second Battalion, now the Seventy-Third Regiment"], page 40 ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII'' by James Browne 1909 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Eg8NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A Narrative Of The Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast Against the Combined Forces of the French, Dutch and Hyder Ally Cawn, from the Year 1780 to the Peace in 1784'' ...]  by Innes Munro, Captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders 1789  Google Books. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278503 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mPURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ‪''Journal of a Voyage Performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman, from Madras to Columbo and Da Lagoa Bay ... in the Year 1798'']‬ by William White, Captain, 73rd Highland Regiment of Foot. 1800 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mPURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ‪''Journal of a Voyage Performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman, from Madras to Columbo and Da Lagoa Bay ... in the Year 1798'']‬ by William White, Captain, 73rd Highland Regiment of Foot. 1800 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbl00waucuoft ''A Short History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); 42nd, 73rd, 1725-1907. To which is added an account of the second battalion in the South African War, 1899-1902''] by [Arthur Grenfell Wauchope] 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbl00waucuoft ''A Short History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); 42nd, 73rd, 1725-1907. To which is added an account of the second battalion in the South African War, 1899-1902''] by [Arthur Grenfell Wauchope] 1908 Archive.org

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Chronology

  • 1756 2nd Battalion, 34th Regiment of Foot redesignated as 73rd Regiment of Foot
  • 1763 became a Regiment of Invalids
  • 1769 disbanded
  • 1777 raised as the 1st Battalion 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders)
  • 1778 2nd Battalion raised
  • 1782 became the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
  • 1809 became the 73rd Regiment of Foot
  • 1862 became the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 amalgamated with the 42nd Regiment of Foot to become the the 2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)
  • 2006 merged with five other Scottish regiments - the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Service in British India

Transfer between regiments

In 1819, while still in Ceylon, one hundred and seventy-two men volunteered to the 73rd regiment from the 19th regiment, when that regiment went back to England

When the 73rd regiment went back to England in 1821, all the men fit for service in a tropical climate were permitted to volunteer, in the first instance, to regiments in Ceylon, and ultimately to His Majesty's regiments stationed in the territories of the East India Company. Refer Historical books online, below.

FIBIS resources

  • "The Melvill Family – Three Generations of Commitment to India (Part 1)" by David Williams – pages 3-17 FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014) contains a section on Philip Melville, an officer in the 73rd Regiment of Foot, who was captured following the battle near Pollilur in 1780, with quotes from his papers. See FIBIS Journals for information about accessing this article.

External Links

Historical books online

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