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The 2nd Battalion, 73rd Regiment of Foot and the 2nd Battalion, 30th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815, Joseph Cartwright. The 2nd Battalion remained in England until May 1813 when it was shipped to Swedish Pomerania and fought at the Battle of the Göhrde in September 1813 [14] and the Battle of Merxem in January 1814. [15]
73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, raised as the 2nd Battalion, 42nd Regiment of Foot in 1780, re-numbered as the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in 1787 and amalgamated in 1881 Topics referred to by the same term
The 73rd Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army from 1758 to 1763. [1] It was formed on 28 April 1758 from the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment of Foot, and served in Ireland until it was disbanded in 1763.
73rd Regiment of Foot 1745–1746: 1745 Raised 1745 as Lord Cholmondeley's Regiment, ranked as 73rd Foot. Disbanded 1746. 73rd Regiment of Foot 1758–1763 [116] 1758 Raised as 2nd Battalion, 34th Regiment of Foot 1756, reconstituted as 73rd Regiment of Foot 1758. Disbanded 1763. [116] 73rd (Invalids) Regiment of Foot 1764–1769 [116] 1762
2nd Battalion, 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Morice: 38 officers, 495 men 4 officers, 51 men 6 officers, 162 men 0 officers, 15 men 2nd Battalion, 73rd Regiment of Foot: Lieutenant-Colonel William George Harris: 39 officers, 471 men 9 officers, 57 men 13 officers, 222 men 0 officers, 41 men
The 73rd Regiment of Foot (Invalids) was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1762 to 1768. History
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot. It was known as The ...
When the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, to become the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Fife, Forfarshire, and Perthshire were integrated into the structure of the regiment.