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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC ''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC&pg=PA6  page 6] in 1781 in Madras
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC ''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC&pg=PA6  page 6] in 1781 in Madras
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscottis02kelt#page/596/mode/2up ''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
  
 
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Revision as of 02:07, 18 January 2010

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

External Links

Historical Books Online

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])