-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- 61st Foot. 1755–1757|Scarlet,|Purple, |Bunker’s Hill, 1775. 59th Foot. 1757–1782| 1755--.|1755– |America, 1775–1776. 59th Second Nottingham- | | 1785. |Gibraltar, 1782–1783. shire. 1782----| |White, |Corsica, 1794. | | in |Nimeguen, 1794. | | 1815--.|Flanders, 1794–1795. | | |Cape of Good Hope, | | | 1806. | | |Corunna, 1809. | | |Peninsula, 1808–1809. | | |Mauritius, 1810. | | |Java, 1811. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |St. Sebastian, 1813. | | |Nive, 1813. | | |Peninsula, 1812–1813. | | |Bhurtpore, 1826. | | |China, 1857–1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised at Nottingham. It was nicknamed “The Lily-whites” from its facings; it is not known when they were changed to White, but it was between 1786 and 1814. The first Regiment numbered the 59th was raised in 1755, and is now the 57th West Middlesex. SIXTIETH FOOT.