71st Regiment of Foot

Chronology

1758 raised from 2nd Battalion 32nd Regiment of Foot
1763 became a Regiment of Invalids
1768 disbanded
1775 raised as 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders)
1786 redesignated as the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders)
1809 became 71st (Glasgow Highland Light Infantry) in 1809 then 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
1881 united with the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot to form the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
1959 amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
2003 amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
2006 known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)

Historical Record of the 71st Regiment Highland Light Infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's Highlanders, up to the year 1876 by Henry J T Hildyard (1876) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 9 in 1780 in Madras
History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 "Lord Macleod’s Highlanders, formerly the 73rd Regiment, now the 71st Highland Light Infantry " by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commences page 498 in 1780 in Madras