73rd Regiment of Foot
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
- 1781 Madras
- 1782 2nd Mysore War
- 1790 3rd Mysore War
- 1793 Pondicherry
- 1795 Ceylon
- 1799 4th Mysore War
- 1801 2nd Polygar War
- 1803 2nd Maratha War
- 1815 2nd Kandyan War
- 1858 Indian Mutiny
- 1874 India
- 1902 Umballa
- 1905 Solon
- 1906 Dalhousie
- 1908 Barian
- 1911 Calcutta
- 1914 Bareilly
- 1905 Sitapur
External Links
Historical Books Online
- 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 page 6 in 1781 in Madras
Other
73rd Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Black Watch Wikipedia
Macquarie University's webpage on the 73rd Foot (includes links to information on Seringapatam [1799] and Mangalore [1783])