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|unit_name=76th Regiment of Foot |image=DWR 76th Badge (RLH).jpg |caption=Cap badge of the 76th Regiment of Foot |dates=1787–1881 |country={{flag|Kingdom of Great Britain}} (1787–1800) {{flag|United Kingdom}} (1801–1881) |branch={{army|United Kingdom}} |type=Line Infantry |role= |size= 11 Companies |command_structure= |current_commander= Lieutenant Colonel JMD Allardice 1880-1881 |current_commander_label= Last Commanding Officer |garrison=Wellesley Barracks, Halifax |ceremonial_chief= |ceremonial_chief_label= Last Colonel-in-Chief |colonel_of_the_regiment= General Fredrick Darley George CB 1875-1881 |colonel_of_the_regiment_label= Last Colonel of the Regiment |nickname=The Immortals The Pigs The Old Seven and Sixpennies |patron= |motto= none |colors= Red Facings |march=Quick: Scotland the Brave Slow: Logie o'Buchan |mascot= Indian Elephant |battles=Third Anglo-Mysore War Second Anglo-Maratha War Napoleonic Wars War of 1812 |notable_commanders= |anniversaries= }} The 76th Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment to form the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1881. HistoryFormationThe regiment was raised by Sir Thomas Musgrave, 7th Baronet for service in India as the 76th Regiment of Foot in October 1787.[1] In accordance with the Declaratory Act 1788 the cost of raising the regiment was recharged to East India Company on the basis that the act required that expenses "should be defrayed out of the revenues" arising there.[1] The majority of recruits were raised from Nottingham and Leicestershire, but many of them also came from the Musgrave family estates around Hayton Castle, near Aspatria, Cumbria.[2] The Royal Warrant for their raising was issued on 12 October 1787 and read: GEORGE R.Whereas We have thought fit to order a Regt of Foot to be forthwith raised under your Command, which is to consist of ten Companies, with 3 Sergts, 4 Corpls, 2 Drumrs & 71 private Men in each, with two Fifers to the Grenadier Compy and one Compy, of 8 Sergts, 8 Corpls, 4 Drumrs & 30 private Men with the usuals Comd. Officers, these are to authorise you by Beat of Drum or otherwise to raise so many Men in any Country or part of our Kingdom of Great Britain as shall be wanted to complete the said Regt, to the above mentioned numbers. And all above Given the 12th October. 1787 in the 27th Year of Our Reign. By H.M.'s Command (Sd.) Geo. Yonge[3] IndiaThe regiment embarked for India in 1788 for service in the Third Anglo-Mysore War and saw action at the Siege of Bangalore in February 1791[4] and the Siege of Seringapatam in February 1792.[5][6] The regiment also saw service in the Second Anglo-Maratha War and fought at the Siege of Aligarh in September 1803.[7] The regiment laid siege to Aligarh Fort, a fort commanded by a French mercenary officer Pierre Perron and captured it from the Marathas.[7] During the assault, fourteen ditches were lined with sword-blades and poisoned chevaux-de-frise around the fort by the French.[7] The walls were reinforced with French artillery and tigers and lions of Scindia's menagerie were also used by the French.[7] During the battle, the British lost as many as 900 soldiers.[7] The regiment went on to fight at the Battle of Delhi in September 1803, the Battle of Laswari in November 1803 and the Battle of Deeg in November 1804.[5] For their distinguished service in these actions, King George III gave his authorisation to the regiment, allowing them to have the word "Hindoostan" emblazoned upon the regimental colours, along with an elephant badge with a howdah atop the elephant, also inscribed with the word "Hindoostan".[8] The regiment returned to England and became the 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot in October 1806.[1] Napoleonic WarsIn 1807, the regiment was deployed to Jersey in the Channel Islands for garrison duty, remaining there until 1808, when it was deployed to Spain to take part in the Peninsular War.[5] The regiment took part in the Battle of Corunna in January 1809 and was evacuated from the Peninsula later that month.[5] The regiment took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in autumn 1809 and, having reverted to the title of 76th Regiment of Foot in 1812,[1] returned to the Peninsula in 1813 seeing action at the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813[9] and the Battle of the Nive in December 1813.[10] It then embarked for North America for service in the War of 1812 and saw action at the Battle of Plattsburgh in September 1814.[11] The Victorian eraThe regiment did not return from North America until 1827.[5] It was garrisoned in Ireland until 1834 when it departed for the West Indies.[12] It went on to Canada in 1841 before returning home in 1842.[12] The regiment were deployed to South Wales later in the year to help suppress the Rebecca Riots.[13] After that the regiment went to Corfu in 1848 and on to Malta in 1850 before sailing for Saint John, New Brunswick in March 1853.[14] It was garrisoned at Fredericton in New Brunswick[13] before embarking for home again in September 1857.[15] It embarked for India in September 1863[16] and was stationed in Fort St. George, Madras[13] before moving on to Burma in January 1868, returning to India again in 1870 and sailing for England in 1876.[17] As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 76th was linked with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment, and assigned to district no. 9 at Wellesley Barracks in Halifax.[18] On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment to form the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.[1] Battle honoursBattle honours won by the regiment were:[1]
ColonelsColonels of the Regiments were:[1]
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/076-787.htm |title=76th Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=30 July 2016 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225110914/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/076-787.htm |archivedate=25 February 2007 |df=dmy }} 2. ^Brereton & Savory, p. 79 3. ^Hayden, p. 142 4. ^Hayden, p. 6–10 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/076-1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616043135/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/076-1.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=16 June 2006|title=76th Regiment of Foot: Locations|publisher=Regiments.org|accessdate=18 February 2017}} 6. ^Hayden, p. 8–12 7. ^1 2 3 4 Thackeray, chapter 2 8. ^Hayden, p. 61 9. ^Hayden, p. 87–89 10. ^Hayden, p. 90–91 11. ^Hayden, p. 104–106 12. ^1 Hayden, p. 112 13. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/76foot.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313164125/http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/76foot.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=13 March 2007|publisher=Family History in India|first=Roger|last= Capewell|title=76th Regiment of Foot|accessdate=18 February 2017}} 14. ^Hayden, p. 114 15. ^Hayden, p. 116 16. ^Hayden, p. 122 17. ^Hayden, p. 130 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210172841/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=10 February 2006|title=Training Depots|publisher=Regiments.org|accessdate=16 October 2016}} Sources
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