93rd (Highland) Regiment

93rd Regiment of Foot
Active	1799–1881
Country	Great Britain
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
March	The Thin Red Line Highland Laddie The Campbell March
Commanders
Notable commanders	Sir Colin Campbell

The 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a Line Infantry Regiment of the British Army. In 1881, during the Childers Reforms, it was united with the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot to form the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).

The regiment was raised three times (as the Sutherland Fencibles) before it became the Sutherland Highlanders.

1759: The 1st Sutherland Fencibles was raised in Scotland from the area of Sutherland and Caithness in 1759 and disbanded in 1763 by Lord Reay.

1779: 2nd Sutherland Fencibles was raised by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland (done in practice by Lieutenant-Colonel William Wemyss of Wemyss) and disbanded in 1783.

1793: 3rd Sutherland Fencibles was raised by Wemyss. It served in the quelling of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and was disbanded in April 1799 at Fort George.

The 93rd Regiment was recruited in 1799 from the recently disbanded Sutherland Fencibles by their old colonel William Wemyss, at this time a Major General in the British Army, on behalf of his 16-year-old cousin Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland. Wemyss had the remaining volunteers from all over Sutherland lined up by parish, selected those he thought most suitable and issued each of these a pinch of snuff, a dram of whisky and their bounty money. When the regiment first mustered, in Strathnaver in August 1800, not a single man selected by Wemyss failed to report. There is a cairn at Skail, in Strathnaver, marking the spot where this muster took place.

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