Difference between revisions of "73rd Regiment of Foot"

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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

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])

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 == 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  [http://books.google.com/books?id=94wc_zcW_EwC 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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