Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the 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 1851Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the 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
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 73rd -- History
---- Sir William Medows 58
1796 Gerard, afterward Viscount Lake 59
1800 George Lord Harris, G.C.B. 61
1829 The Right Honorable Sir Frederick Adam, G.C.B. 63
1835 William George Lord Harris, C.B. and K.C.H. 64
1845 Sir Robert Henry Dick, K.C.B. and K.C.H. 66
1846 Sir John Grey, K.C.B. 68
1849 Richard Goddard Hare Clarges, C.B. --
APPENDIX.
Memoir of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie 69
Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Charles
O’Connell, K.C.H. 70
British and Hanoverian army at Waterloo on the 18th
of June 1815 73
PLATES.
Colours of the Regiment _to face_ 1
Storming of Seringapatam, 4th May, 1799 ” 18
Costume of the Regiment ” 56
[Illustration: LXXIII REGIMENT
_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t Strand_
_For Cannon’s Military Records_]
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
HISTORICAL RECORD
OF THE
SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
During the last century several corps, at successive periods, have
been borne on the establishment of the army, and numbered the
SEVENTY-THIRD; the following details are therefore prefixed to the
historical record of the services of the regiment which now bears
that number, in order to prevent its being connected with those
corps which have been designated by the same numerical title, but
whose services have been totally distinct.
* * * * *
In the spring of 1758, the second battalions of fifteen regiments
of infantry, from the 3rd to the 37th, were directed to be formed
into distinct regiments, and to be numbered from the 61st to the
75th successively, as follows:--
_Second Battalion_ _Constituted_
3rd Foot the 61st regiment.
4th ” ” 62nd ”
8th ” ” 63rd ”
11th ” ” 64th ”
12th ” ” 65th ”
19th ” ” 66th ”
20th ” ” 67th ”
23rd ” the 68th regiment.
24th ” ” 69th ”
31st ” ” 70th ”
32nd ” ” 71st ”
33rd ” ” 72nd ”
34th ” ” 73rd ”
36th ” ” 74th ”
37th ” ” 75th ”
The 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th, and 75th regiments, thus formed, were
disbanded in 1763, after the peace of Fontainebleau.
Several other corps were likewise disbanded at this period, which
occasioned a change in the numerical titles of the following
regiments of Invalids.
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