--------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Thomas Sanderson’s|Scarlet,|Yellow, |Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Regiment of Marines. |1702--. | since |Barcelona, 1705. 1702–1704 | | 1742. |Spain, 1704–1706. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Cherbourg, 1758. 1704–1714 | | |Belle-Isle, 1761. Colonel Charles Willis’s | | |Toulon, 1794. Regiment of Foot. | | |Corsica, 1794. 1714–1716 | | |Malta, 1800. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Mandora, 1801. 1716–1751 | | |Alexandria, 1801. 30th Foot. 1751–1782 | | |Marabout, 1801. 30th Cambridgeshire. | | |Egypt, 1801. 1782---- | | |Badajos, 1812. | | |Salamanca, 1812. | | |Peninsula, 1810–1813. | | |Quatre-Bras, 1815. | | |Waterloo, 1815. | | |Netherlands, 1814–1815. | | |Asseerghur, 1819. | | |Alma, 1854. | | |Inkerman, 1854. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines. It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801. It was nicknamed “The Triple Xs” also “The Three Tens.” THIRTY-FIRST FOOT.
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