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
when he re-embarked for India, and was placed on the Bengal Staff.
On the 3rd of May, 1796, Major-General Harris received the local
rank of lieut.-general, and was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the
Presidency of Fort St. George; in February, 1798, he succeeded to
the military and civil government of the troops and territories of
Madras.
In December, 1798, Lieut.-General Harris was selected, by the
Marquis Wellesley to command the army assembled to repel the
threatened hostility of Tippoo Sultan, to besiege his capital, and
to reduce his power. The army under the command of Lieut.-General
Harris exceeded fifty thousand men, and the object of the
expedition was accomplished by the capture of _Seringapatam_, the
death of Tippoo, and annexation of his dominions to the British
Crown, as detailed in the Historical Record of the SEVENTY-THIRD,
of which regiment he was appointed colonel on the 14th of February,
1800, as a reward for his important services:--on the 1st of
January, 1801, he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general. On
the 1st of January, 1812, Lieut.-General Harris was advanced to the
rank of general. In August, 1815, General Harris was raised to the
peerage by the title of Baron Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore in
the East Indies, and of Belmont in Kent, and was appointed a Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on the 27th of May, 1820. His
Lordship succeeded General Francis Dundas as Governor of Dumbarton
Castle in January, 1824. During the latter years of his life his
Lordship lived in retirement at his seat at Belmont, Feversham, in
Kent, where his decease occurred on the 19th of May, 1829, at the
advanced age of eighty-two years.
THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR FREDERICK ADAM, G.C.B., & G.C.M.G.
_Appointed 22nd May, 1829._
Removed to the fifty-seventh regiment on the 4th of December, 1835,
and to the twenty-first, Royal North British Fusiliers, on the 31st
of May, 1843.
WILLIAM GEORGE LORD HARRIS, C.B., & K.C.H.
_Appointed 4th December, 1835._
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