-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Sir Richard |Scarlet,|Yellow, |Boyne, 1690. Peyton’s Regiment of |1688--. |1688--. |Aughrim, 1691. Foot. 1688–1689| | |Caya, 1709. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Spain, 1707–1712. 1689–1751| | |Gibraltar, 1727. 20th Foot. 1751–1782| | |Dettingen, 1743. 20th, East Devonshire. | | |Fontenoy, 1745. 1782----| | |Flanders, 1742–1745. | | |Cherbourg, 1758. | | |Minden, 1759. | | |Warbourg, 1760. | | |Campen, 1760. | | |Denkern, 1761. | | |Wilhelmstahl, 1762. | | |Germany, 1758–1763. | | |Stillwater, 1777. | | |America, 1776–1781. | | |Crabbendam, 1799. | | |Bergen, 1799. | | |Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. | | |Alkmaer, 1799. | | |Egypt, 1801. | | |Maida, 1806. | | |Vimiera, 1808. | | |Corunna, 1809. | | |Flushing, 1809. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |Pyrenees, 1813. | | |St. Sebastian, 1813. | | |Orthes, 1814. | | |Toulouse, 1814. | | |Peninsula, 1808–1814. | | |Alma, 1854. | | |Inkerman, 1854. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. | | |Lucknow, 1858. | | |Indian Mutiny, 1857– | | | 1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Devonshire. It is said to have borne the motto “Omnia audax,” but when is not known. It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
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