-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel John Mordaunt’s |Scarlet,| White, |Louisbourg, 1758. Regiment of Foot. | 1741--.|1741--. |Quebec, 1759. 1741–1743| | |Sillery, 1760. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Canada, 1757–1760. 1743–1751| | |Lexington, 1775. 47th Foot. 1751–1782| | |Bunker’s Hill, 1775. 47th Lancashire. | | |Stillwater, 1777. 1782----| | |America, 1775–1781. | | |Buenos Ayres, 1806. | | |Monte-Video, 1807. | | |Barrossa, 1811. | | |Tarifa, 1811. | | |Burgos, 1812. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |St. Sebastian, 1813. | | |Bayonne, 1814. | | |Peninsula, 1810–1814. | | |Ava, 1826. | | |Alma, 1854. | | |Inkerman, 1854. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Scotland, and it is said that the “King’s Crest” was then conferred upon it. It was commonly known at Quebec, 1759, as “Wolfe’s Own,” and it now wears a black worm in the lace as an expression of sorrow for his death. It was nicknamed “The Cauliflowers” from its facings; also “The Lancashire Lads” from its county title. FORTY-EIGHTH FOOT.