The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

Great Britain. Army

-------------------------+-----------------+-----------------------
                             +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel the Marquis of   |Scarlet,| Tawny, |Boyne, 1690.
      Worcester’s Regiment   | 1685--.|  1685. |Germany, 1703–1704.
      of Foot.      1685–1687|        |Green,  |Almanza, 1707.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    |        |  in    |Spain, 1706–1708.
                    1687–1751|        | 1742--.|Malplaquet, 1709.
    11th Foot.      1751–1782|        |        |Douay, 1710.
    11th, North Devonshire.  |        |        |Germany, 1708–1711.
                     1782----|        |        |Dettingen, 1743.
                             |        |        |Fontenoy, 1745.
                             |        |        |Roucoux, 1746.
                             |        |        |Flanders, 1742–1748.
                             |        |        |Corbach, 1760.
                             |        |        |Warbourg, 1760.
                             |        |        |Campen, 1760.
                             |        |        |Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
                             |        |        |Germany, 1760–1763.
                             |        |        |Toulon, 1793.
                             |        |        |Corsica, 1794.
                             |        |        |Flushing, 1809.
                             |        |        |Busaco, 1810.
                             |        |        |Sabugal, 1811.
                             |        |        |Salamanca, 1812.
                             |        |        |Burgos, 1812.
                             |        |        |Pyrenees, 1813.
                             |        |        |Nivelle, 1813.
                             |        |        |Nive, 1813.
                             |        |        |Orthes, 1814.
                             |        |        |Toulouse, 1814.
                             |        |        |Peninsula, 1809–1814.
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

The Regiment was raised in Devonshire, Somerset, and Dorsetshire.

It captured the Drums of the 11th French Infantry at Flushing; and a
Green Standard without an Eagle from the French at Salamanca, where it
was nearly cut to pieces, and was nicknamed accordingly “The Bloody
Eleventh.”

It is not known when the facings were changed to Green.


                             TWELFTH FOOT.

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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

Great Britain. Army

-------------------------+-----------------+-----------------------
                             +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel the Marquis of   |Scarlet,| Tawny, |Boyne, 1690.
      Worcester’s Regiment   | 1685--.|  1685. |Germany, 1703–1704.
      of Foot.      1685–1687|        |Green,  |Almanza, 1707.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    |        |  in    |Spain, 1706–1708.
                    1687–1751|        | 1742--.|Malplaquet, 1709.
    11th Foot.      1751–1782|        |        |Douay, 1710.
    11th, North Devonshire.  |        |        |Germany, 1708–1711.
                     1782----|        |        |Dettingen, 1743.
                             |        |        |Fontenoy, 1745.
                             |        |        |Roucoux, 1746.
                             |        |        |Flanders, 1742–1748.
                             |        |        |Corbach, 1760.
                             |        |        |Warbourg, 1760.
                             |        |        |Campen, 1760.
                             |        |        |Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
                             |        |        |Germany, 1760–1763.
                             |        |        |Toulon, 1793.
                             |        |        |Corsica, 1794.
                             |        |        |Flushing, 1809.
                             |        |        |Busaco, 1810.
                             |        |        |Sabugal, 1811.
                             |        |        |Salamanca, 1812.
                             |        |        |Burgos, 1812.
                             |        |        |Pyrenees, 1813.
                             |        |        |Nivelle, 1813.
                             |        |        |Nive, 1813.
                             |        |        |Orthes, 1814.
                             |        |        |Toulouse, 1814.
                             |        |        |Peninsula, 1809–1814.
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

The Regiment was raised in Devonshire, Somerset, and Dorsetshire.

It captured the Drums of the 11th French Infantry at Flushing; and a
Green Standard without an Eagle from the French at Salamanca, where it
was nearly cut to pieces, and was nicknamed accordingly “The Bloody
Eleventh.”

It is not known when the facings were changed to Green.


                             TWELFTH FOOT.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

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