--------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel George Villiers’s |Scarlet,| Buff, |Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Regiment of Marines. | 1702--.|1702--. |Barcelona, 1705. 1702–1703 | | |Spain, 1704–1706. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Minorca, 1708. 1703–1714 | | |Dettingen, 1743. Colonel Sir Harry Goring’s| | |Fontenoy, 1745. Regiment of Foot. | | |Flanders, 1742–1745. 1714–1751 | | |America, 1776–1781. 31st Foot. 1751–1782 | | |Martinique, 1794. 31st Huntingdonshire. | | |St. Lucia, 1794. 1782---- | | |Guadaloupe, 1794. | | |St. Lucia, 1796. | | |Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. | | |Alkmaer, 1799. | | |Rosetta, 1807. | | |Egypt, 1807. | | |Talavera, 1809. | | |Albuera, 1811. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |Pyrenees, 1813. | | |Nivelle, 1813. | | |Nive, 1813. | | |Orthes, 1814. | | |Peninsula, 1809–1814. | | |Cabool, 1842. | | |Moodkee, 1845. | | |Ferozeshah, 1845. | | |Aliwal, 1846. | | |Sobraon, 1846. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. | | |Taku Forts, 1860. --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines. It captured a Colour from the Seikhs at Ferozeshah, one at Aliwal, and two at Sobraon. It was nicknamed “The Young Buffs” from the King mistaking it for the 3rd Buffs at the Battle of Dettingen 1743. THIRTY-SECOND FOOT.