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
1692-96. Flanders.
1692. Steenkirk.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1709-13. Germany.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1709. Pont-à-Vendin.
1710. Douay.
1711. Bouchain.
1744-48. Flanders.
1745. Fontenoy.
1746. Roucoux.
1747. Val.
1761. Belle Isle.
1781-82. America.
1793. Nieuport.
1794-95. Flanders.
1795. Guildermalsen.
1799. Seringapatam.
1810. Mauritius.
1817-19. Ceylon.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1858. Indian Mutiny.
1868. Hazara.
1884-85. Nile.
*1897-98. Tirah.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet with Grass-Green facings (to 1881); Scarlet
and White facings (since 1881). Recently (1900) the grass-green
facings have been restored.
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The White Rose" (of York)
in the _Regulations_. Also a special device on various
appointments--"H.R.H. the Princess of Wales's Cypher and Coronet,
combined with a Cross"; on the cross, 1875.
NICKNAMES.--"The Green Howards," "Howard's Garbage," or "Howard's
Greens," from its facings and Colonel's name (1738-48); also "The
Bounders."
NOTES.--Raised from independent companies of pikemen and
musketeers in Devonshire.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of The 19th, or 1st Yorkshire,
North Riding Regiment._ 1688-1848. Illustrated. [London: Parker.
1848.]
_The Nineteenth and their Times._ By Colonel John Biddulph.
[London: Murray. 1900.]
The Lancashire Fusiliers,
COMPRISING
=1st and 2nd Batts.= (formerly) The 20th (The East Devonshire)
Regiment of Foot; two other batts. have been sanctioned; also
Militia Batts.
=5th and 6th Batts.= The 7th Royal Lancashire Militia.
"_Omnia audax._"
[Illustration: THE SPHINX WITH WREATH AND CROWN.]
TITLES.
1688-89. Colonel Sir Robert Peyton's Regiment of Foot.
1689-1751. [Its Colonel's name] Regiment of Foot (in 1689 Colonel
Gustavus Hamilton, afterwards Viscount Boyne).
1751-82. The 20th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Lancashire Fusiliers.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1690. Boyne.
1691. Athlone.
1691. Aughrim.
1707-12. Spain.
1709. Caya.
1727. Gibraltar.
1742-45. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Culloden.
1758. Cherbourg.
1758-63. Germany.
1759. Minden.
1760. Warbourg.
1760. Campen.
1761. Denkern.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1776-81. America.
1777. Stillwater.
1799. Crabbendam.
1799. Bergen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1799. Alkmaer.
1800. Quiberon.
*1801. Egypt.
*1806. Maida.
*1808-14. Peninsula.
*1808. Vimiera.
*1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1813. Vittoria.
*1813. Pyrenees.
1813. St. Sebastien.
*1814. Orthes.
*1814. Toulouse.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
*1858. Lucknow.
*1898. Khartoum
1900. South Africa.
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