Historical Record of the Seventy-Second Regiment, or the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778, and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Seventy-Second Regiment, or the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 72nd -- History; Great Britain. Army. Seaforth Highlanders -- History
+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| | | Number landed, |
| | | including |
| BRIGADES. | REGIMENTS. | Recruits |
| | | for India, |
| | | attached. |
+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 1st. Commanded by { | Twenty-fourth | 600 |
| Brigadier-General { | Thirty-eighth | 900 |
| Beresford { | Eighty-third | 800 |
| | | |
| 2nd. Under Brigadier- { | Seventy-first | 800 |
| General Ferguson { | SEVENTY-SECOND | 600 |
| { | Ninety-third | 800 |
| | Fifty-ninth | 900 |
| | Company’s recruits | 200 |
| | Seamen and marines | 1100 |
| | Artillery | 200 |
| | Twentieth Light Dragoons | 300 |
| | +----------------+
| | Total. | 7200 |
+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
[18] “The soldiers suffered excessively from the heat of the sun,
which was as intense as I ever felt it in India; though our fatigue
was extreme, yet, for the momentary halt we made, the grenadier
company (SEVENTY-SECOND) requested the pipers might play them
their regimental quick step, _Capper fiedth_, to which they danced
a Highland Reel, to the utter astonishment of the fifty-ninth
regiment, which was close in our rear.”--_Journal of Captain
Campbell, Grenadier Company_, SEVENTY-SECOND _regiment_.
[19] Afterwards Lieut.-General Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B. and
G.C.H., Colonel of the Fifteenth, or King’s Hussars, who died in
December 1835.
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