-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Archibald |Scarlet,| White, |Walcourt, 1689. Douglas’s Regiment of | 1688--.| 1688. |Steenkirk, 1692. Foot. 1688| |Yellow, |Neer-Landen, 1693. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | since |Namur, 1695. 1688–1751| |1742--. |Flanders, 1689–1697. 16th Foot. 1751–1782| | |Liege, 1702. 16th Buckinghamshire. | | |Schellenberg, 1704. 1782–1809| | |Blenheim, 1704. 16th Bedfordshire. | | |Ramilies, 1706. 1809----| | |Oudenarde, 1708. | | |Lisle, 1708. | | |Tournay, 1709. | | |Malplaquet, 1709. | | |Germany, 1702–1712. | | |Carthagena, 1741. | | |America, 1779–1781. | | |Surinam, 1804. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in the Southern Counties of England, it and the present 17th Foot are the only two remaining out of twelve raised in 1688. It is not known when its facings were changed to Yellow. It was nicknamed “The Old Bucks” from its County Title; but exchanged it in 1809 with the 14th Foot. SEVENTEENTH FOOT.