History of the Regiment
Formation of the Regiment
The Clan Mackenzie, The various Battalions of the 78th, Offers from F. H. Mackenzie, Esq. of Seaforth, to raise a Regiment for Government, Letter of service granted to F. H. Mackenzie, Esq., to raise a Regiment of Highlanders, to be numbered the 78th, The 1st Battalion, List of officers, Inspected and passed by Sir Hector Munro, Under Lord Moira in Guernsey, The Campaign of 1794—95 in Holland, The Regiment joins the Duke of York on the Weal, Nimeguen, Disastrous retreat on Deventer, The Regiment returns home, The Loyalist war in La Vendée, The Quiberon Expedition, Occupation of L’Ile Dieu, The Regiment returns home, Colonel F. H. Mackenzie’s proposals to raise a 2nd Battalion for the 78th, Letter of Service granted to him for that purpose, List of Officers, lnspected and passed by Sir Hector Munro, Granted the title of the Ross-shire Buffs, Ordered to England, Difficulties prior to embarkation at Portsmouth, The Regiment sails on secret service, Capture of the Cape of Good Hope, The Regiment goes into quarters at Capetown, until the arrival of the 1st Battalion.
Unusually, it was a two-battalion unit from its inception. The 2nd Battalion’s only foreign posting was to the Cape of Good Hope where it helped capture Cape Town in 1795 before being merged into 1st Battalion the following year.
1st Battalion fought in the Netherlands (1794) and Brittany (1795) before arriving in India for the first time in 1797. There it served in the Second Maratha War (1803-06), seeing action at Ahmednuggar (1803), Assaye (1803) and Gawilghur (1803). It then took part in the capture of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1811 and was awarded an honorary third colour by the East India Company. It returned to India in 1816.
In 1817 the regiment returned from India. It was only back in Britain for nine years, however, at the end of which it sailed to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). This was followed by another deployment to India in 1842. While there it suffered heavy losses from disease in Sindh. In 1857 the regiment took part in the Persian War (1856-57), fighting at the Battle of Khushab (1857).
The regiment was next engaged in the Siege of Cawnpore (1857) and the First Relief of Lucknow (1857) during the Indian Mutiny (1857-59), with eight officers and men of the 78th winning the Victoria Cross over the course of that campaign.
The regiment spent four years on home service from 1860, and the rest of the 1860s on garrison duty in Gibraltar and Canada. It spent most of the 1870s back in Britain, before being sent to fight in the Second Afghan War (1878-80) in 1879.
In the meantime, in 1804, the regiment had formed a new 2nd Battalion that served in Sicily and Italy (1806), Egypt (1807) and Walcheren in the Netherlands (1809). After four years of home service it returned to the continent in 1813 and held the garrison town of Nieuwpoort during the Waterloo campaign (1815). In 1816 the battalion was disbanded.
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European Event Schedule
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Monday: Training and Ceremonial Promotions - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Monday: Training 18:00 GMT
Tuesday: 1stRM Event - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Tuesday: 51st Minisiege 19:00 GMT
Wensday: KH Siege - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Wensday: N/A
Thursday: Volunteer (Not Mandatory) Training - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Thursday: 1st Brigade Thursday Line Battle 19:00 GMT
Friday: 1stRM - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Friday: N/A
Saturday: N/A
Saturday: 3e Grenadiers linebattle 19:00 GMT
Sunday: 94th Scotch Rifles LB - 5Pfc/8est/2am GMT +1
Sunday: Ceremonial Promotions 19:00 GMT
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