71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot

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The 71st Regiment of Foot was a Highland regiment in the British Army, raised as the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in 1777. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry in 1881.

Regimental colours

John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod, founder of the regiment, by George Romney

Regimental uniform, 1852

Memorial to men of the regiment killed or fatally wounded on the North West Frontier of India in 1863

74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot

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The 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot to form the Highland Light Infantry in 1881.

Maratha gunners re-man their cannons at the Battle of Assaye in April 1803 (illustration by Alfred Pearse)

"The Wreck of the Birkenhead" (ca 1892) by Thomas Hemy

Memorial to the men of the 74th Highlanders in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, erected 1886

An Officer in the East India Uniform of the 74th (Highland) Regiment, previously called 'Colonel Donald Macleod', by John Opie