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The 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, later redesignated the 75th Regiment of Foot and, later still, the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot, was a British Army line infantry regiment. During the Childers Reforms it was united with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders. ==Service history== Raised. The 75th was raised as a Highland Regiment for service in the British East India Company in 1787〔Trevor Royle (2011). The Gordon Highlanders, A Concise History, Random House, Appendix〕 by Robert Abercromby, its first colonel, and was known as Abercromby's Highlanders.〔Christopher Chant (2013). The Handbook of British Regiments, Routledge Revivals, p240〕 It first assembled in June 1788 in Stirling, proceeded to England and arrived in India by the end of the year.〔Anthony Leask (2006)Sword of Scotland, Pen and Sword, p95〕〔David Stewart (1825). Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Volume 2, Constable,p241〕 It comprised eight battalion or center companies, a grenadier company and a light infantry company. India. The 75th was stationed in Bombay〔David Stewart (1825). Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Volume 2, Constable,p172〕 and Madras.〔Stuart Reid and Bryan Fosten (1992). Wellington’s Highlanders, Osprey, p19〕 Two significant actions in India were the Battle of Seringapatam, 1799 〔David Stewart (1825). Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Volume 2, Constable,p204〕 and the Siege of Bhurtpore, 1805.〔David Stewart (1825). Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments, Volume 2, Constable,p244〕 Britain. The 75th returned to Britain in 1806 to rebuild and 1809 it lost its "Highland" designation becoming the 75th Regiment of Foot,〔Trevor Royle (2011). The Gordon Highlanders, A Concise History, Random House, Appendix〕 though colloquially it was known as the Stirlingshire Regiment. Mediterranean. During the Napoleonic Wars, the 75th was stationed in the Mediterranean: Sicily 1811-14,〔Stuart Reid and Bryan Fosten (1992). Wellington’s Highlanders, Osprey, p19〕 Ionian Islands and Gibraltar 1814-23. Britain. 1823-1834. Cape Colony. The 75th served in Cape Colony, participating in the Kaffir Wars.〔George McCall Theal (2010). History of South Africa Since September 1795, Cambridge University Press, p262〕 Britain. 1843-1849. India. The 75th returned to India in 1849,〔National Army Museum website, http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/famous-units/75th-stirlingshire-regiment-foot〕 participating in the Sepoy Rebellion, 1857, in particular the Siege of Lucknow. Britain. The 75th returned to Britain in 1860. In 1862 it formally regained its territorial designation, becaming the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot.〔Trevor Royle (2011). The Gordon Highlanders, A Concise History, Random House, Appendix〕 The 75th also saw service in Ireland, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Cape Colony before 1881.〔National Army Museum website, http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/famous-units/75th-stirlingshire-regiment-foot〕 In 1881, as part of the Childers Reforms, the 75th amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st battalion, the Gordon Highlanders.〔Trevor Royle (2011). The Gordon Highlanders, A Concise History, Random House, Appendix〕 The 75th was forced painfully into this ill-suited linking, and went so far as commissioning a marble monument to itself in Malta where it was based at the time. It had spent so long away from Scotland that they were effectively an English unit that had to relearn how to wear kilts. The pedigree of the contemporary The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, can be traced, in part, to the 75th. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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