+---------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +---------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Staff | - | 2 | - | - | |Royal Artillery | - | - | 1 | 3 | |13th Somerset L.I. | - | 1 | 5 | - | |East Yorkshire | - | 1 | - | - | |40th Cornwall L.I. | - | - | - | 3 | |King's Roy. R. | - | 2 | 4 | 11 | |63rd M'chesters | - | - | - | 1 | |90th Scottish Rifles | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | |West India Regiments | - | 4 | 7 | 84 | |York Rangers | 4 | 5 | 28 | 102 | +---------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ In the year 1847 the General Service Medal was granted to the survivors of this expedition, with a special clasp inscribed "Guadeloupe." In the year 1814, on the conclusion of the war with France, Guadeloupe was once more restored; but on the escape of Napoleon from Elba it threw off its allegiance to Louis XVIII., and declared for the Emperor. Once more an expedition was organized for its reduction, and though the futility of resistance was pointed out, the garrison, by its unnecessary loyalty to a dead cause, compelled the General to resort to force. The command of the 1815 expedition was entrusted to Major-General Leith, the regiments selected being the East Yorkshires, who have participated in every expedition to the West Indies since the year 1759; the King's Own Scottish Borderers; the 63rd (Manchesters); and the local West India Regiments. The only casualties were-- +----------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +----------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |63rd M'chesters | - | 2 | 3 | 20 | |W. India Regt. | - | 2 | 13 | 31 | +----------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CHAPTER IX BATTLE HONOURS FOR SERVICES IN EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN, 1802-1898 Egypt with the Sphinx--Mandora, 1802--Marabout, 1802--Egypt, 1882--Tel-el-Kebir, 1882--The Nile, 1884-85--Abu Klea, 1885--Kirbekan, 1885--Suakin, 1885--Tofrek, 1885--Hafir, 1896--Atbara, 1898--Khartoum, 1898. EGYPT (WITH THE SPHINX). On July 6, 1802, this distinction was conferred by King George III. on the regiments named below, "as a distinguished mark of His Majesty's royal approbation, and as a lasting memorial of the glory acquired to His Majesty's arms by the zeal, discipline, and intrepidity of his troops in that arduous and important campaign." So ran the _Gazette_. Five-and-forty years later, after much discussion and not a little opposition, the grant of the Peninsular medal was extended to the survivors of the campaign. The regiments that bear this battle honour are the