-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Sir Edward |Scarlet,| Green, |Schellenberg, 1704. Dering’s Regiment of |1689--. | 1689--.|Blenheim, 1704. Foot. 1689| | |Neer-Hespen, 1705. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Malplaquet, 1709. 1689–1751| | |Germany, 1702–1710. 24th Foot. 1751–1782| | |Carthagena, 1741. 24th Warwickshire. | | |Minorca, 1756. 1782–1838| | |Cherbourg, 1758. 24th Second Warwickshire.| | |Guadaloupe, 1759. 1838----| | |Corbach, 1760. | | |Denkern, 1761. | | |Wilhelmstahl, 1762. | | |Germany, 1760–1762. | | |Stillwater, 1777. | | |America, 1776–1781. | | |Egypt, 1801. | | |Cape of Good Hope, | | | 1806. | | |Talavera, 1809. | | |Fuentes d’Onor, 1811. | | |Salamanca, 1812. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |St. Sebastian, 1813. | | |Pyrenees, 1813. | | |Nivelle, 1813. | | |Orthes, 1814. | | |Peninsula, 1809–1814. | | |Punjaub, 1848–1849. | | |Chillianwallah, 1849. | | |Goojerat, 1849. | | |Indian Mutiny, 1857– | | | 1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801. It was nicknamed “Howard’s Greens,” from its facings, and its Colonel’s name from 1717 to 1737. TWENTY-FIFTH FOOT.
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