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====Historical Books Online====
====Historical Books Online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Historical Records of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders now the 2nd Battalion, Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders''] compiled  by Roderick Hamilton Burgoyne 1883 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/866/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2''] "The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/878/mode/2up page 878] in 1857.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/866/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2''] "The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/878/mode/2up page 878] in 1857.
*[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
*[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

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Also known as Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

History

  • 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

External Links

Historical Books Online