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.
Farmer, John S.
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army -- Organization; Great Britain. Army -- Registers
1690. Boyne.
1691. Limerick.
1696-97. Flanders.
1701-14. Germany.
1702. Venloo.
1702. Liége.
1704. Schellenberg.
*1704. Blenheim.
*1706. Ramilies.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Lisle.
1709. Tournay.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1710. Douay.
1715. Jacobite rising.
1715. Dunblane.
1742-48. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Falkirk.
1746. Culloden.
1746. Roucoux.
1747. Val.
1760-63. Germany.
1760. Corbach.
1760. Warbourg.
1760. Zierenberg.
1760. Campen.
1761. Kirch Denkern.
1761. Grafenstein.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1768. America.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Martinique.
1794. Guadaloupe.
1794. Nimeguen.
1794. St. Lucia.
1796. Grenada.
*1801. Egypt.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1809. Martinique.
1809. Flushing.
1812-14. America.
1813-14. Quebec.
1814. Plattsburg.
*1814. Niagara.
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
1857. Cawnpore.
*1857. Delhi.
1857. Pillour.
*1857. Lucknow.
1857. Agra.
*1876-80. Afghanistan.
*1878. Peiwar Kotal.
*1885-87. Burma.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet and bright Yellow facings (1685 to 1716);
Scarlet and Blue facings (from 1716).
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The White Horse within the Garter"
(for services during the Jacobite rising of 1715, the corps
suffering heavily at Dunblane. At the same time and for a similar
reason it received its title of "King's"). Also "The Royal Cypher
and the Imperial Crown." Also "The Sphinx," for Egypt (1801).
Motto, "_Nec aspera terrent_" ("Nor do difficulties terrify us").
NOTES.--Raised chiefly in Derbyshire at the time of the Monmouth
Rebellion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 8th, or King's Regiment
of Foot._ 1685-1844. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1844.]
_Historical Record of The King's (Liverpool) Regiment of Foot._
1685-1881. By General Cunningham Robertson. Illustrated. [London:
Harrison. 1883.]
The Norfolk Regiment,
COMPRISING
=1st & 2nd Batts.= (formerly) The 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of
Foot; with Militia Battalions.
=3rd Batt.= The 1st Norfolk Militia.
=4th Batt.= The 2nd Norfolk Militia.
[Illustration: THE FIGURE OF BRITANNIA.]
TITLES.
1685-88. Colonel Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot.
1688-1751. (Its Colonel's name) Regiment of Foot.
1751-82. The 9th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Norfolk Regiment.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
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