Note 4 — SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
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On the 23rd of May, 1821, His Majesty King George IV was graciously pleased to authorise the Seventy-first to bear on the regimental colours and appointments the word “Hindoostan” in commemoration of its distinguished services in the several actions in which it had been engaged, while in India, between the years 1780 and 1797.