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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

1685-89. "Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers"; also "Our Ordnance
      Regiment"; formerly "The Tower Guards."
  1689-1881. The 7th (Royal Fusiliers).
  1881 (from). The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).


PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

  1689-90. Flanders.
  1690. Cork.
  1690. Kinsale.
  1692-96. Flanders.
  1693. Neer Landen.
  1695. Namur.
  1702. Cadiz.
  1704-9. Spain.
  1705-6. Barcelona.
  1707. Lerida.
  1773-82. America.
  1775. Quebec.
  1807. Copenhagen.
  *1809. Peninsula.
  *1809. Talavera.
  *1809. Martinique.
  1810. Busaco.
  *1811. Albuera.
  *1812. Badajos.
  *1812. Salamanca.
  *1813. Vittoria.
  *1813. Pyrenees.
  1813. Bidassoa.
  *1814. Orthes.
  *1814. Toulouse.
  1814. Bordeaux.
  1814. America.
  1815. New Orleans.
  *1854. Alma.
  *1854. Inkerman.
  *1855. Sevastopol.
  1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
  *1879-80. Afghanistan.
  *1880. Kandahar.
  1900. South Africa.

  UNIFORM.--Red, with Yellow facings (1685); Red and Dark Blue
  facings (in 1742); now Scarlet and Blue facings.

  REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The United Red and White Rose
  within the Garter, with the Crown over it." Also "The White
  Horse."

  NICKNAMES, &C.--"The Hanoverian White Horse." "The Elegant
  Extracts."

  NOTES.--Raised at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 7th Regiment, or Royal
  Fusiliers._ 1685-1846. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1847.]

  _Historical Record of the 7th, or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers._
  Printed for private circulation. By Colonel G. H. Waller, Royal
  Fusiliers. [Dublin. 1877.]


The King's (Liverpool Regiment),

COMPRISING

  =1st & 2nd Batts.= (formerly) The 8th (The King's) Regiment of
      Foot; the 3rd and 4th Batts. recently sanctioned; with Militia
      Battalions.
  =5th & 6th Batts.= The 2nd Lancashire Militia.

[Illustration: THE WHITE HORSE AND GARTER.]

[Illustration: THE CYPHER AND CROWN.]

[Illustration: THE SPHINX.]


TITLES.

  1685-1702. The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment.
  1702-16. The Queen's Regiment.
  1716-51. The King's Regiment; also the King's Hanoverian White Horse.
  1751-1881. The 8th (The King's) Regiment.
  1881 (from). The King's (Liverpool Regiment).


PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

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