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42nd (Royal Highland) (The Black Watch) Regiment of Foot |
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1661-1662 |
independent companies raised in the Highlands by local chiefs (supplemented by detachments of Scots Regt of Foot Guards); earliest documents refer to suppressing various crimes including black mail |
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1668.09.11 |
Highland Watch company raised by John, Earl of Atholl; this was the first coy not limited to a locality and paid from the state Treasury; subsequent coys were clothed in tartans of their chief, but paid and maintained by the State |
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1678.09.04 |
two independent companies raised for security tasks in Highlands |
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1681.03 |
independent companies disbanded (Highland policing assumed by two new coys of Earl of Mar's Regt to 1688) |
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1688? |
two independent companies raised for security tasks in Highlands |
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1704 |
third company
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1714.08? |
companies disbanded? |
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1714.08.09 |
independent company raised |
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1715.01.21 |
two additional companies raised |
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1718 |
all companies disbanded |
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1725.04.24 |
Independent Highland Companies
four companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch |
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1729 |
two additional companies raised |
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1739.10.25 |
Earl of Craufurd's Regiment
formed by regimentation of existing six coys and four new coys; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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1747 |
ranked as 43rd Foot |
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1749 |
ranked as 42nd Foot upon disbandment of Oglethorpe's Regiment |
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1751.07.01 |
42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot |
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1758.07.22 |
42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot |
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1861.07.08 |
42nd (Royal Highland) (The Black Watch) Regiment of Foot |
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1881.07.01 |
amalgamated with 73rd Foot to form The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) |
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BATTLE HONOURS LINKS ARE INOPERATIVE
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[Egypt]1,
Corunna, Fuentes D'Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula,
Waterloo, Alma, Sevastopol, Lucknow,
Ashantee 1873-4 1. the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt". Note: see also The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) for belatedly awarded battle honours.
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Uniform: |
Highland jacket: scarlet, collar and cuffs: buff, turnbacks: none, lacings: white with two red lines |
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1739.10.25 |
Lt-Gen. John (Lindsay), 20th Earl of Crawford [also 4th Tp Horse Gds, 2nd Tp Horse Gren Gds, 2nd Dgns, 25th Foot; AG 1739-43] |
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1741.01.14 |
Brig-Gen. Hugh (Forbes), 12th Baron Semphill [also 25th Foot] |
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1745.06.01 |
Gen. Lord John Murray |
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1787.06.01 |
Gen. Sir Hector Munro, KB |
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1806.01.03 |
Gen. George (Gordon), 5th Duke of Gordon, GCB (Marquess of Huntly) [also 3rd Gds, 1st Foot, 92nd Foot] |
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1820.01.29 |
Gen. John (Hope), 4th Earl of Hopetoun, GCB [also 6th Bn 60th Foot,
92nd Foot] |
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1823.09.06 |
Gen. Sir George Murray, GCB, GCH [also
1st Foot, 7th Bn 60th Foot, 72nd Foot; MGO 1834-35 1841-46] |
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1844.01.15 |
Lt-Gen. Sir John Macdonald, GCB [also 53rd Foot, 67th Foot, 92nd Foot] |
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1850.04.10 |
Gen. Sir James Dawes Douglas, GCB [also 93rd Foot] |
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1862.03.07 |
F.M. George (Hay), 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, KT, GCB [also 2nd Life Gds, 30th Foot; Gov. C-in-C Madras 1842-48] |
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1863.09.09 |
Gen. Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, GCB |
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Mottos: |
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit |
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Nicknames: |
The Watch, The Forty Twas |
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Anniversaries: |
Red Heckle Day (5 Jan) |
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Marches: |
Highland Laddie, The Garb of Old Gaul |
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