Historical Record of the Seventy-first Regiment, Highland Light Infantry

"Historical Record of the Seventy-first Regiment, Highland Light Infantry" is a historical document accounting for the formation of the Seventy-First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, in 1777. In that year, the British Ministry tried 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, and 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 States.