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])