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
- 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
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])