TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example M^cLeod or 71^{ST}. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. The tables in this book are best viewed using a monospace font. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE 71ST REGIMENT HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, FROM ITS FORMATION IN 1777, UNDER THE TITLE OF THE 73RD, OR M^cLEOD’S HIGHLANDERS, UP TO THE YEAR 1876. COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT HENRY J. T. HILDYARD, _71st H.L.I._ London: HARRISON AND SONS, 59, PALL MALL, Booksellers to the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 1876. LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY ST. MARTIN’S LANE. SUCCESSION OF COLONELS IN THE 71ST HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. 1777. John Lord McLeod. 1789. The Hon. Wm. Gordon. 1803. Sir John Francis Cradock, G.C.B. 1809. Francis Dundas. 1824. Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B. 1829. Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B. 1838. Sir Samuel Ford Wittingham. 1841. Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., K.C.B. 1848. Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.B. 1849. Sir James Macdonell, K.C.B. and K.C.H. 1857. Sir Thomas Napier, K.C.B. 1863. The Hon. Charles Grey. 1871. Robert Law, K.H. 1874. The Hon. Sir George Cadogan, K.C.B. The Seventy-first Highland Light Infantry bears the following honorary records of its varied services on the regimental colour and appointments:— “Hindoostan,” for its distinguished services in India, between 1780 and 1797. “Cape of Good Hope,” for its part in the capture of that colony in 1806. “Roleia,” } “Vimiera,” } “Corunna,” } “Fuentes d’onor,” } For its several actions in which it “Almaraz,” } was engaged in Spain and the “Vittoria,” } South of France from 1808 to “Pyrenees,” } 1814. “Nive,” } “Orthes,” } “Peninsula,” } “Waterloo,” for its share in that battle in 1815. “Sevastopol.” “Central India.” HISTORY OF THE 71^{ST} HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, _Formerly numbered the 73rd Regiment, and called McLeod’s Highlanders._ [Sidenote: 1777.]