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When the 73rd regiment went back to England in 1821, all the men fit for service in a tropical climate were permitted to volunteer, in the first instance, to regiments in Ceylon, and ultimately to His Majesty's regiments stationed in the territories of the East India Company. Refer Historical books online, below.
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
*[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://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
===Other===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Foot 73rd Regiment of Foot] - Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(Royal_Highlanders) Black Watch] - Wikipedia
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060433/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/073-786.htm 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot] including [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233631/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/073-1.htm deployments] Regiments.org, an archived website
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216183323/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042Black.htm The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071130085549/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/042-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221233631/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/073-1.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived website
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/lmr/regiments.html#73 Macquarie University's webpage] on the 73rd Foot (includes links to information on [[Seringapatam]] [1799] and [[Mangalore]] [1783])
*[http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/ Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)Castle & Museum]
*Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7167 post] with photographs of the uniforms of the 2nd Battalion at [[Peshawar]] in 1907
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