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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
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71st (Glasgow Highland Light
Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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United
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1771 |
independent
company raised in Highlands |
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1777.12.19 |
73rd (Highland)
Regiment of Foot (McLeod's Highlanders) |
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1786.04.26 |
71st (Highland)
Regiment of Foot (McLeod's Highlanders) |
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1808.06 |
71st (Glasgow
Highland) Regiment of Foot |
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1809.03.20 |
71st (Glasgow
Highland Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot |
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1810 |
71st (Highland)
Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) |
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1881.07.01 |
united
with 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of
Foot, to form The
Highland Light Infantry |
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Brief
History of the 71st Regiment, by David Stevens. |
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Lord
MacLeod's Highlanders, formerly the 73rd Regiment, now the 71st
Highland Light Infantry (Electric Scotland) |
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Lord
MacLeod's Highlanders, formerly the 73rd Regiment, now the 71st
or Glasgow Highland Light Infantry, by Ian Coghlan |
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71st
Foot Timeline, by Michael S.Young et al. (British Light Infantry
Regiments) |
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A
Brief History of the Regiment (Regimental site) |
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History,
1808-1815 (71st Napoleonic re-enactment site) |
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A
History of the 71st during the Napoleonic Wars, by Ben Folley
[internet archive] |
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Regulars: |
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[1st
Battalion] [1777-1881] |
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2nd
Battalion [1778-1783, 1804-1815] |
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Depot
and Reserves: |
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Reserve
Battalion [1842-1853] |
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? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871] 
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55th Brigade
Depot at Inverness [1873-1881] |
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Hindoostan1,
Cape of Good Hope 1806,
Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna,
Fuentes d'Onor, Almaraz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Peninsula,
Waterloo, Sevastopol,
Central India
1. awarded
1821 for services in 1780-1798, including 2nd
Mysore war, 3rd
Mysore war, 4th
Mysore war, and Pondicherry.
Note: see also successor for belatedly
awarded battle honours.
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1777.12.19 |
Maj-Gen. John (Mackenzie), Lord Macleod |
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1789.04.09 |
Gen. Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie [also
7th Foot, 21st
Foot, 60th Foot, 81st
Hldrs] |
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1803.08.06 |
Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir John Francis (Cradock),
1st Baron Howden [to 1796; also known as Caradoc;
also 43rd Foot, 127th
Foot] |
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1809.01.07 |
Gen. Francis Dundas [also
Scotch Bde] |
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1824.01.16 |
Gen. Sir Gordon Drummond, GCB [also
8th Foot, 49th Foot,
88th Foot, 97th Foot] |
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1829.09.21 |
Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, KCB, KCH
[also 31st Foot, 45th
Foot, 95th Foot, 2nd
Lt Bn KGL; Cin-C Bombay 1831-32, Gov. R
Hospital 1849-56] |
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1838.03.28 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham, KCB,
KCH |
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1841.03.15 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Reynell, Bt, KCB [also
87th Foot, 99th
Foot] |
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1848.02.18 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, KCB [also
9th Foot, 52nd
Foot, 99th Foot] |
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1849.02.08 |
Gen. Sir James Macdonell, GCB, KCH [also
79th Foot] |
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1857.05.16 |
Gen. Sir Thomas Erskine Napier, KCB [also
16th Foot] |
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1863.07.06 |
Gen. Hon. Charles Grey [also
3rd Foot] |
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1870.04.01 |
Lt-Gen. Robert Law, KCB [also
2nd West India Regt] |
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1874.05.17 |
Gen. Hon. Sir George Cadogan, KCB [also
106th Foot] |
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1880.01.28 |
Gen. John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple,
CB [also 108th Foot] |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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- Band History,
by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
- Bandmasters,
by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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Short Histories:
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