The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged
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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged
Great Britain. Army
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| Colour of |
Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
|Uniform.|Facings.|
-------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
59th Foot. 1755–1757|Scarlet,|Green, |Brooklyn, 1776.
57th Foot. 1757–1782| 1755--.|1755– |York Town, 1781.
57th West Middlesex. | | 1767. |America, 1776–1782.
1782----| |Yellow, |Nieuport, 1793.
| |1767--. |Nimeguen, 1794.
| | |Flanders, 1793–1795.
| | |St. Lucia, 1796.
| | |Albuera, 1811.
| | |Vittoria, 1813.
| | |Pyrenees, 1813.
| | |Nivelle, 1813.
| | |Nive, 1813.
| | |Peninsula, 1809–1814.
| | |Asseerghur, 1819.
| | |Inkerman, 1854.
| | |Sevastopol, 1855.
| | |Indian Mutiny, 1858.
| | |New Zealand, 1861–
| | | 1866.
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The Regiment was raised in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire.
It was nicknamed “The Die Hards” from its Colonel (Inglis) calling to
the men “Die hard, my men, die hard” at the battle of Albuera, 1811,
where it had thirty bullets through the King’s Colour, and only had one
officer out of twenty-four, and one hundred and sixty-eight men out of
five hundred and eighty-four, left standing.
The first Regiment numbered the 57th was raised in 1755, and is now the
55th Westmoreland.
FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
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