The loss of this regiment during four years’ active service was—
| KILLED. | |
| In officers, | 14 |
| Non-commissioned officers and privates, | 109 |
| —— | |
| Total, | 123 |
| WOUNDED. | |
| In officers, | 46 |
| Non-commissioned officers and privates, | 400 |
| —— | |
| Total, | 446 |
| —— | |
| Grand Total, | 569 |
II.
Old Seventy-First Regiment.
1775–1783.
Raising of the Regiment—American Revolutionary War—Honourable place assigned to the regiment—Brooklyn—Various expeditions—Savannah—Boston Creek—Defence of Savannah—Stony Point and Verplanks—Cambden—Catawba River—South Carolina—Guilford Court-house—York River—Reduction of Regiment.
The American revolutionary war requiring extraordinary exertions on the part of the Government, it was resolved in 1775 to revive Fraser’s Highlanders, by raising two battalions, under the auspices of Colonel Fraser, who, for his services, had been rewarded by King George III. with a grant of the family estates of Lovat, which had been forfeited in 1746. In his exertions to raise the battalions, Colonel Fraser was warmly assisted by his officers, of whom no less than six, besides himself, were chiefs of clans, and within a few months after the letters of service were issued, two battalions of 2340 Highlanders were raised, and assembled first at Stirling, and afterwards at Glasgow, in April 1776. The following were the names of the officers:—
FIRST BATTALION.
Colonel.—The Honourable Simon Fraser of Lovat, died in 1782, a lieutenant-general.
Lieutenant-Colonel.—Sir William Erskine of Torry, died in 1795, a lieutenant-general.