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75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot

The 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881.

For other units with the same regimental number, see 75th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation).

75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot

1787–1881

 Kingdom of Great Britain (1787–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)

 British Army

Infantry

One battalion

Dorchester Barracks

Third Anglo-Mysore War
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Second Anglo-Maratha War
Napoleonic Wars
Indian Rebellion

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: , India

Seringapatam

Indian Mutiny: , Lucknow

Delhi 1857

Battle honours won by the regiment were:[2]

Colour Sergeant , Indian Mutiny (8 June 1857)

Cornelius Coughlan

Private , Indian Mutiny (11 September 1857)

Patrick Green

Lieutenant , Indian Mutiny (17 July 1857)

Richard Wadeson

1787–1827: Gen. Sir , GCB

Robert Abercromby of Airthrey

Leask, Anthony (2006). Sword of Scotland: 'Our Fighting Jocks'. Pen and Sword.  978-1844154050.

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Reid, Stuart; Fosten, Bryan (1992). Wellington's Highlanders. Osprey.  978-1855322561.

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Stewart, David (1825). Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments. Vol. 2. Constable.

Theal, George McCall (2010). History of South Africa Since September 1795. Cambridge University Press.  978-1108023634.

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Gardyne, Lieutenant Colonel C Greenhill (1929). The Story of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders (including an Account of the 75th Regiment from 1787 to 1881). Vol. 2. London: The Medici Society.

Wickes, H.L. (1974). Regiments of Foot. Osprey Publishing.  978-0850452204.

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