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 the Earl of |Scarlet,| Blue, |Boyne, 1690.
Granard’s Regiment of | 1684--.|1684--. |Aughrim, 1691.
Foot. 1684–1686| | |Namur, 1695.
(Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Flanders, 1693–1697.
1686–1695| | |Venloo, 1702.
The Royal Regiment of | | |Schellenberg, 1704.
Ireland. 1695–1751| | |Blenheim, 1704.
18th, The Royal Irish. | | |Neer-Hespen, 1705.
1751----| | |Ramilies, 1706.
| | |Oudenarde, 1708.
| | |Lisle, 1708.
| | |Tournay, 1709.
| | |Malplaquet, 1709.
| | |Bouchain, 1711.
| | |Germany, 1702–1712.
| | |Gibraltar, 1727.
| | |Flanders, 1745.
| | |Lexington, 1775.
| | |Bunker’s Hill, 1775.
| | |America, 1775–1776.
| | |Toulon, 1793.
| | |Corsica, 1794.
| | |Mandora, 1801.
| | |Alexandria, 1801.
| | |Egypt, 1801.
| | |China, 1840–1842.
| | |Rangoon, 1852.
| | |Pegu, 1852–1853.
| | |Sevastopol, 1855.
| | |New Zealand, 1863–1866.
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The Regiment is the only one now in existence out of nineteen that was
raised in Ireland from Independent Companies of musketeers and pikemen.
It bore the Cross of St. Patrick till 1695.
It received its Title, Badge of “The Lion of Nassau,” with the motto
“Virtutis Namurcensis Præmium,” for its storming the Castle of Namur,
1695.
It also bears “The Harp and Crown,” “The Dragon” for its services in
China, 1840 to 1842, and “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
NINETEENTH FOOT.
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