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
Removed to the fifth Fusiliers on the 18th May, 1849.
RICHARD GODDARD HARE CLARGES, C.B.
_Appointed 18th May, 1849._
APPENDIX.
_Memoir of the Services of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie,
formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the_ SEVENTY-THIRD _regiment_.
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie entered the army on the 9th of
April, 1777, as ensign in the late eighty-fourth regiment, (which
was disbanded in 1784), and performed garrison duty at Halifax,
and other parts of Nova Scotia, for four years, namely, from the
year 1777 to 1781. On the 18th of January, 1781, he was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant in the late seventy-first regiment, and
did garrison duty at New York and Charleston, in North America,
and in the island of Jamaica for three years. He was placed on
half-pay on the 4th of June, 1784, and was appointed lieutenant
in the seventy-seventh regiment on the 25th of December, 1787,
and promoted to the rank of captain on the 9th of November, 1788.
Captain Macquarie served in various parts of India, from the 3rd
of August, 1788, to the 1st of January, 1803; was present at the
sieges of Cannanore, in 1790, at Seringapatam in 1791, at Cochin
in 1795, and at Colombo, in Ceylon, in 1796. As a reward for his
services he had received the brevet rank of major on the 3rd of
May, 1796, and continued to serve in various parts of India, during
the above-mentioned periods. Brevet Major Macquarie was present
at the battle of Seedaseer on the 6th of March, 1799, and at the
siege of Seringapatam in April and May following. Brevet Major
Macquarie was afterwards employed on service in Malabar, and on
the 12th of March, 1801, was promoted from the seventy-seventh
to the eighty-sixth regiment. Major Macquarie proceeded with the
eighty-sixth and other regiments ordered to embark from India,
under Major-General David Baird, to join the army in Egypt, and was
present at the siege of Alexandria in August, 1801. In November
following he was promoted to the brevet rank of lieut.-colonel.
He served at home as Assistant Adjutant-General on the London
District Staff, from July, 1803, until March, 1805; and afterwards
in India, with the eighty-sixth regiment in the field in 1805 and
1806. On the 30th of May, 1805, he was appointed lieut.-colonel
in the SEVENTY-THIRD regiment, which corps he returned home to
join in 1807, and in May, 1809, embarked with his regiment for
New South Wales, of which colony, and its dependencies, he was
appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief. On the 25th July, 1810,
he was advanced to the brevet rank of colonel, was appointed
brigadier-general on the 21st of February, 1811, and promoted
major-general on the 4th of June, 1813. His decease occurred in
July, 1824.
_Memoir of the Services of Lieut.-General Sir Maurice Charles
O’Connell, K.C.H., formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the_ SEVENTY-THIRD
_regiment_.
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