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.|
-------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
Colonel Sir Edward Foot.|Scarlet,| Buff, |Neer-Landen, 1693.
Hales’s Regiment of |1685--. | 1685--.|Namur, 1695.
1685–1688| | |Flanders, 1692–1696.
(Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Gibraltar, 1727.
1688–1751| | |Flanders, 1745.
14th Foot. 1751–1782| | |America, 1775.
14th Bedfordshire. | | |Famars, 1793.
1782–1809| | |Valenciennes, 1793.
14th Buckinghamshire. | | |Dunkirk, 1793.
1809–1876| | |Tournay, 1794.
14th Buckinghamshire, | | |Guildermalsen, 1795.
Prince of Wales’s Own. | | |Flanders, 1793–1795.
1876----| | |St. Lucia, 1796.
| | |Corunna, 1809.
| | |Peninsula, 1808–1809.
| | |Flushing, 1809.
| | |Mauritius, 1810.
| | |Java, 1811.
| | |Waterloo, 1815.
| | |Netherlands, 1815.
| | |Bhurtpore, 1826.
| | |India, 1807–1831.
| | |Sevastopol, 1855.
| | |New Zealand, 1860–1866.
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The Regiment was raised in Kent.
It bears “The White Horse,” with the motto “Nec aspera terrent.”
It received its Crest of “The Royal Tiger” for its services in India
from 1807 to 1831.
It received its Title and Badge of “The Plume of the Prince of Wales”
in 1876.
It was nicknamed “The Old and Bold”; also “Calvert’s Entire” from its
having three Battalions when Sir H. Calvert was Colonel from 1806 to
1826, who also exchanged its County Title with the Sixteenth Foot.
FIFTEENTH FOOT.
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