The 75th Regiment of Foot was a British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 line infantry

Line infantry

Line infantry is a type of infantry which composed the basis of European land armies from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century....

 regiment

Regiment

A regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...

. During the Childers Reforms

Childers Reforms

The Childers Reforms restructured the infantry regiments of the British army. The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell reforms....

 it was united with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

The 92nd Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment. It was granted Royal Warrant on 10 February 1794, and first paraded on 24 June 1794, originally being numbered the 100th Regiment of Foot...

 to form the Gordon Highlanders.

Service history

The 75th were raised in 1787 by Robert Abecromby, their first colonel, and were known as Abercromby's Highlanders.
They first saw action in India, fighting at Seringapatam

Battle of Seringapatam

The Siege of Seringapatam was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel. Tippu Sultan, Mysore's...

 and Mysore.
During the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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 the 75th were stationed in the Mediterranean.
Later, during the colonial period they served in South Africa during the Kaffir War of 1832, and in India during the Sepoy Rebellion

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

.
In 1862 they became the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment.

In 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms

Childers Reforms

The Childers Reforms restructured the infantry regiments of the British army. The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell reforms....

 the 75th amalgamated with the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

The 92nd Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment. It was granted Royal Warrant on 10 February 1794, and first paraded on 24 June 1794, originally being numbered the 100th Regiment of Foot...

 to become the 1st battalion, the Gordon Highlanders.