[Gutenberg 60449] • Historical Record of the Seventy-first Regiment, Highland Light Infantry / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1777, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1852

Excerpt from Historical Record of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1777, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1852

Towards the end of the year 1777 every effort was made by the British Ministry to encourage the country to raise troops voluntarily for the prosecution of the war then being waged between Great Britain and her American Colonies. Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, each raised a regiment of a thousand men at its own expense, and several independent companies were formed in Wales. In this manner men were raised and presented to the State, of which upwards of two-thirds were Obtained from Scotland, and principally from the Highland clans.

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