75th Regiment of Foot: Difference between revisions

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Known as The 75th Stirlingshire Regiment

1787 raised as 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot by EIC for service in India
1809 lost Highland status & dress and became 75th Regiment of Foot
1862 became 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
1881 amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders
1994 amalgamated with The Queens' Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
2004 amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single Royal Regiment of Scotland

History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 " Seventy-Fifth regiment or 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commenced in 1788, presumably in Madras
Muster roll in Malabar 1789 Google Books

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 ====Historical Books Online====
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/654/mode/2up ''History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments  Volume 2''] " Seventy-Fifth regiment or 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders" by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org.  Indian service commenced in 1788, presumably in Madras
-*[http://books.google.com/books?id=j0MIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=Lists+of+the+officers+of+His+Majesty's,+and+the+Hon.+Company's+troops++75th+Highland+Regiment&hl=en&ei=yowkTY7-F4qWhQe855HUAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Muster roll 1789] Google Books
+*[http://books.google.com/books?id=j0MIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=Lists+of+the+officers+of+His+Majesty's,+and+the+Hon.+Company's+troops++75th+Highland+Regiment&hl=en&ei=yowkTY7-F4qWhQe855HUAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Muster roll in Malabar 1789] Google Books
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