Category: History - British
1777. John Lord McLeod. 1789. The Hon. Wm. Gordon. 1803. Sir John Francis Cradock, G.C.B. 1809. Francis Dundas. 1824. Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B. 1829. Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B. 1838. Sir Samuel Ford Wittingham. 1841. Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., K.C.B. 1848. Sir Thomas Arbuthno...
1777. John Lord McLeod. 1789. The Hon. Wm. Gordon. 1803. Sir John Francis Cradock, G.C.B. 1809. Francis Dundas. 1824. Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B. 1829. Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B....
2. Part 2“They were treated with the most cruel indignity, and fed upon sparing proportions of unwholesome rice, which operated as a slow poison, assisted by the burning heat of the sun...
3. Part 3Early in 1790, hostilities having commenced by Tippoo Sultan attacking and capturing the lines of Travancore, the British Government in India determined to support the Rajah of...
4. Part 4“The conduct and valour of the officers and soldiers of this army have often merited Lord Cornwallis’s encomiums, but the zeal and gallantry which were so successfully displayed...
5. Part 5The troops that had sailed in the line-of-battle ships were transferred on the 16th of June to the transports, which proceeded up the river, and on the 24th of that month came t...
6. Part 6The transports not having arrived, a position was occupied in advance of Corunna, and some sharp skirmishing ensued, in which four companies of the Seventy-first were warmly eng...
7. Part 7The sanguinary battle of Albuhera, fought on the 16th of May, had obliged Marshal Soult to retire previously to the arrival of the reinforcements, which being considered no long...
8. Part 8The Seventy-first continued retiring until the 30th, when Lieut.-General Sir Rowland Hill took up a strong position beyond Lizasso. In this post he was attacked with much spirit...
9. Part 9In Edinburgh, on the 26th of July, at the annual competition for prizes given by the Highland Society of London, Sir John Sinclair, President of the Judges, in the course of his...
10. Part 10Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.B., was removed from the colonelcy of the Ninth Foot to that of the Seventy-first Highlanders on the 18th of February, 1848, in succ...
11. Part 11The regiment remained at Nowshera till the 14th of October, 1863, when, in accordance with instructions received from head-quarters, it marched to Nawakilla, in the Yusufzai cou...