DUKE OF ALBANY’S OWN HIGHLANDERS.
CONTENTS OF HISTORICAL RECORD.
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| Year | Introduction | [xxxiii] |
| 1778 | Formation of the Regiment | [1] |
| —— | The Earl of Seaforth appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant | [2] |
| —— | Officers appointed to Commissions | [3] |
| —— | Establishment and National Composition | — |
| —— | Assembled and inspected at Elgin | [4] |
| —— | Marched to Edinburgh | — |
| —— | Embarked for Jersey and Guernsey | [5] |
| 1779 | Defended Jersey against a French Naval force | — |
| 1781 | Embarked for Portsmouth | [6] |
| —— | ———— for the East Indies | — |
| —— | The Earl of Seaforth died on the passage | — |
| —— | Casualties on the voyage to India | — |
| 1782 | Arrived at Madras | — |
| 1783 | Joined the army destined for the attack of Cudalore | [7] |
| —— | Attack of the fortress of Cudalore | [8] |
| —— | Peace concluded with France | [9] |
| —— | Decease of Hyder Ali, and succession of his son, Tippoo Saib | — |
| —— | Negotiations of Peace with Tippoo Saib | — |
| 1783 | Decease of Colonel Humberston | [9] |
| —— | Major-General James Murray appointed Lieut.-Colonel Commandant | — |
| —— | Advanced into the Mysore country | [10] |
| —— | Capture of the fortress of Palacatcherry | — |
| —— | Capture of the fortress of Coimbetore | [10] |
| 1784 | Termination of the War in India | [11] |
| 1785 | Re-formation of the Regiment by volunteers from other Corps | — |
| 1786 | The numerical title altered from Seventh-eighth to the Seventy-second Regiment | — |
| 1787 | Establishment increased | — |
| 1789 | War with Tippoo Saib recommenced | [12] |
| 1790 | Marched to Trichinopoly | — |
| —— | Advanced to Caroor, and encamped | — |
| —— | Marched to Daraporam | — |
| —— | Thence to Coimbetore | — |
| —— | Flank Companies of Seventy-first and Seventy-second Regiments engaged in the siege of Palacatcherry | [13] |
| —— | Advanced from Coimbetore to Velladi | [14] |
| —— | Returned to Coimbetore | [15] |
| —— | Capture of Palacatcherry | — |
| —— | Advanced from Coimbetore to Erroad | — |
| —— | Traversed extensive districts in pursuit of the Sultan Tippoo Saib | — |
| —— | Returned to the Carnatic | [16] |
| —— | Arrived and encamped at Arnee | — |
| 1791 | General the Earl Cornwallis assumed the command of the army | — |
| —— | Advanced to Vellore | — |
| —— | Traversed the pass of Mooglee | [17] |
| —— | Marched towards the fortress of Bangalore | — |
| —— | Storming and capture of Bangalore | [18] |
| —— | Received the thanks of Earl Cornwallis | [20] |
| 1791 | Joined by the Nizam’s Troops | [21] |
| —— | Advanced towards Seringapatam | [22] |
| —— | Returned to Bangalore | [23] |
| —— | Storming and capture of Savendroog | [25] |
| —— | ———— ———— of Outra-Durgum | [26] |
| —— | Again completed by recruits from Scotland | [27] |
| 1792 | Marched for Seringapatam | — |
| —— | Crossed the Lokany River | [28] |
| —— | Victory over the army of Tippoo Saib | [30] |
| —— | Termination of the War | [31] |
| —— | Marched from Seringapatam to Wallajabad | — |
| 1793 | Proceeded against Pondicherry | [32] |
| 1794 | Returned to Wallajabad | [33] |
| —— | Major-General A. Williamson appointed to the Colonelcy in succession to General Murray, deceased | [33] |
| 1795 | Embarked from Fort St. George, and proceeded against Ceylon | — |
| —— | Siege and capture of Trincomalee | [34] |
| —— | Surrender of Batticaloe | — |
| —— | ———— of Manaar | — |
| 1796 | ———— of Colombo | — |
| 1797 | Removed to Pondicherry | [35] |
| 1798 | Embarked at Madras for England | — |
| —— | Arrived at Gravesend and proceeded to Scotland | — |
| —— | Authorised to bear the word “Hindoostan” on its Colours and Appointments | — |
| —— | Major-General James Stuart appointed to the Colonelcy in succession to Gen. Williamson, deceased | — |
| 1801 | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1802 | Establishment reduced after the Peace of Amiens | [36] |
| 1803 | War with France recommenced | — |
| 1804 | Second Battalion formed in Scotland | — |
| 1805 | First Battalion formed part of an expedition under General Sir David Baird | — |
| 1805 | Arrived in the Bay of Funchal in Madeira | [37] |
| —— | Sailed to the Brazils, where the troops were landed at St. Salvador for a few hours for refreshment | — |
| —— | Proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| 1806 | Effected a landing at Lospard’s Bay | [38] |
| —— | Advanced against the Dutch troops | [39] |
| —— | Expression of thanks and compliments to the Highland Brigade | [40] |
| —— | Authorised to bear the words “Cape of Good Hope” on its Colours and Appointments | [41] |
| —— | Surrender of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope to the British Crown | [42] |
| 1807 | Stationed at Cape Town for three years | — |
| 1809 | Discontinued the Highland Costume | [43] |
| —— | Second Battalion embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1810 | Marched from Cape Town to Stellinbosch | — |
| —— | Formed part of an Expedition with troops from India against the Mauritius | — |
| —— | Surrender of the Mauritius | — |
| —— | Remained at the Mauritius upwards of three years | — |
| 1814 | Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope | [44] |
| 1815 | Appointment of Lieut.-General Lord Hill to the Colonelcy, in succession to General Stuart, deceased | [45] |
| —— | Embarked for Bengal | [46] |
| —— | Re-embarked for the Mauritius | — |
| 1816 | Proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| —— | Disbandment of the Second Battalion | — |
| 1817 | Appointment of Major-General Sir George Murray to the Colonelcy, in succession to General Lord Hill, removed to the Fifty-second regiment | [47] |
| —— | Proceeded to Algoa bay, and engaged in detachments against the Kafirs | — |
| 1819 | Detachment engaged with a party of Kafirs; Captain Gethin killed | [48] |
| 1821 | Embarked for England | [49] |
| 1821 | Received the thanks of the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| 1822 | Arrived at Portsmouth | — |
| 1823 | Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey | — |
| —— | Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir John Hope to the Colonelcy, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir George Murray, removed to the Forty-second Royal Highland Regiment | — |
| —— | Authorised by King George IV. to resume the Highland Costume, the Officers and men wearing Trews instead of Kilts, and to bear the title of “The Duke of Albany’s own Highlanders” | [50] |
| 1824 | Embarked for Plymouth | — |
| —— | Authorized by King George IV., to assume as a regimental badge, the Duke of Albany’s Cipher and Coronet | — |
| —— | Embarked for Scotland | — |
| 1825 | Presentation of New Colours | [51] |
| —— | Embarked for Ireland | [52] |
| 1827 | Formed into six Service Companies and four Depôt Companies | — |
| —— | Service Companies embarked for Liverpool, and marched to London | — |
| 1828 | Reviewed in St. James’s Park | — |
| —— | Marched to Canterbury, and inspected by General Lord Hill, Commanding-in-Chief | [53] |
| —— | Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| 1830 | Depôt Companies removed from Ireland to Scotland | — |
| 1833 | Service Companies engaged in war with the Kafir tribes | — |
| 1835 | Depôt Companies proceed to Ireland | [55] |
| 1838 | Service Companies continued on active service at the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| —— | Depôt Companies returned to Scotland | — |
| 1840 | Service Companies returned to England | [56] |
| —— | Service and Depôt Companies re-united | — |
| —— | Expression of approbation of the conduct of the Regiment by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope | — |
| 1841 | Proceeded from Portsmouth to Windsor | [57] |
| 1842 | Presentation of New Colours by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, at Windsor Castle, in presence of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Prince Albert, the King of Prussia, &c. | — |
| —— | Marched into Lancashire | [60] |
| 1843 | Embarked for Ireland | — |
| 1844 | Formed into six Service, and four Depôt Companies | — |
| —— | Service Companies embarked for Gibraltar | — |
| 1847 | Depôt Companies removed from Ireland to Scotland | — |
| 1848 | Service Companies embarked for the West Indies | — |
| —— | Arrived at Barbadoes | [61] |
| —— | Depôt Companies embarked from Scotland | — |
| —— | Arrived at Sheerness | — |
| —— | The Conclusion | — |
SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT,
OR
DUKE OF ALBANY’S OWN HIGHLANDERS.