93rd Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Also known as Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

1759 raised as 1st Sutherland Fencibles
1763 disbanded
1779 2nd Sutherland Fencibles raised by Lt-Col Wemyss
1793 3rd Sutherland Fencibles raised by Lt-Col Wemyss disbanded 1799
1799 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot raised by Maj-Gen Wemyss
1881 amalgamated with the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to become 2nd Battalion of the Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders)
2004 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single Royal Regiment of Scotland

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 == External Links ==
+===Historical Books Online===
+[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/878/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments''] "The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences page 878 in 1857.<br>
+[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924064186566#page/n7/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny By William Forbes-Mitchell, Late Sergeant 93rd Sutherland Highlanders''] 1893 Archive.org
+===Other===
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd_Regiment_of_Foot 93rd Regiment of Foot] ''Wikipedia''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_and_Sutherland_Highlanders Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders] Wikipedia<br>
-[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t6e4pZEtBdQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Reminiscences+of+the+Great+Mutiny&as_brr=3&ei=Ah-wSb-aLJ-skAT4o9Rs#PPP1,M1 Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny By William Forbes-Mitchell, Late Sergeant 93rd Sutherland Highlanders] ''Google Books''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland Royal Regiment of Scotland] Wikipedia
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland Royal Regiment of Scotland] Wikipedia
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