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The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.Farmer, John S.

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The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.

Name: The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.
Author: Farmer, John S.

Farmer, John S.

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army -- Organization; Great Britain. Army -- Registers

NOTES.--First raised in London by Colonel John Russell, and
  incorporated with the Royal Guards of Charles II., raised by Lord
  Wentworth in the Low Countries in 1656. The title received in
  1815 was in recognition of having defeated the French Imperial
  Guards at Waterloo.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_The Origin and History of the 1st or Grenadier
  Guards._ By Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. W. Hamilton, K.C.B. 3 vols. With
  Illustrations. [London: Murray. 1874.]


The Coldstream Guards.

3 Batts.

[Illustration: THE STAR OF THE GARTER.]

[Illustration: THE SPHINX.]


TITLES.

  1650-60. Colonel Monck's Regiment of Foot: also (popularly) Monck's
      Coldstreamers.
  1660-61. The Lord General's Regiment of Foot.
  1661-70. The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards.
  1670-1817. The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.
  1817 (from). The Coldstream Guards.


PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

  1680-83. Tangier.
  1689-97. Flanders.
  1689. Walcourt.
  1692. Steenkirk.
  1693. Neer Landen.
  1695. Namur.
  1704-8. Spain.
  1704. Gibraltar.
  1705-6. Barcelona.
  1707. Almanza.
  1707-13. Germany.
  *1708. Oudenarde.
  1708. Ghent.
  *1709. Malplaquet
  1711. Bouchain.
  1742-45. Flanders.
  *1743. Dettingen.
  1745. Fontenoy.
  1745. Jacobite rising.
  1758. Cherbourg.
  1760-62. Germany.
  1761. Denkern.
  1762. Wilhelmstahl.
  1776-81. America.
  1776. Brooklyn.
  1777. Brandywine.
  1777. Germantown.
  1778. Freehold.
  1781. Guildford.
  1793-95. Flanders.
  1793. St. Amand.
  1793. Valenciennes.
  *1793. Lincelles.
  1794. Tournay.
  1794. Cateau.
  1799. Helder.
  1799. Crabbendam.
  1799. Bergen.
  1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
  1799. Alkmaer.
  *1801. Egypt.
  1801. Aboukir.
  1801. Alexandria.
  1801. Marabout.
  1805. Hanover.
  1807. Copenhagen.
  *1809-14. Peninsula.
  1809. Flushing.
  1809. Douro.
  *1809. Talavera.
  1811. Fuentes d'Onor.
  *1811. Barossa.
  1812. Ciudad Rodrigo.
  1812. Badajos.
  1812. Burgos.
  1812. Salamanca.
  1813. St. Sebastian.
  1813. Vittoria.
  1813. Pyrenees.
  1813. Bidassoa.
  1813. Nive.
  1813. Nivelle.
  1814. Bayonne.
  1814-15. Netherlands.
  1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
  1815. Quatre Bras.
  *1815. Waterloo.
  1827-28. Portugal.
  1838-42. Canada.
  *1854. Alma.
  *1854. Inkerman.
  *1855. Sevastopol.
  *1882. Egypt.
  *1882. Tel-el-Kebir.
  *1885. Suakim.
  1900. South Africa.

  UNIFORM.--Scarlet faced with Green (1650-70); Scarlet faced with
  Blue (from 1670).

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