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89 Foot: 1759 Dec to 1764 Apr: 89th (Highland Regiment of Foot); under Lt Colonel...
Catalogue reference: WO 17/210
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This record is about the 89 Foot: 1759 Dec to 1764 Apr: 89th (Highland Regiment of Foot); under Lt Colonel... dating from 1759-1812. in the series Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 17/210
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1759-1812.
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89 Foot:
- 1759 Dec to 1764 Apr: 89th (Highland Regiment of Foot); under Lt Colonel Staates Long Morris; includes monthly returns from India.
- 1766 Jan 1: 89th Regiment of Foot; under Major Hector Munro; one monthly return from the ship Bute in Crookhaven, Ireland.
- 1779 Nov: 89th Regiment of Foot; colonel: Lucius F Cary.
- 1781 Aug to Dec: 89th Regiment of Foot; colonel: William Meadows.
- 1794 Jun to 1795 Dec: 89th Regiment of Foot; colonel: William Crosbie.
- 1796 Jan: 89th Regiment of Foot; colonel: Andrew Gordon.
- 1805 June to 1812 Dec: 89th Regiment of Foot; colonels: General Sir Eyre Coote, Charles Bulkeley Egerton, John Whitelock and General Albermarle (Bertie), 9th Earl Lindsey; includes monthly returns from Isle of Wight, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Portugal, India, Africa and Canada (War of 1812).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C601087/
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WO 17
Office of the Commander in Chief: Monthly Returns to the Adjutant General
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