Battle Honours of the British Army From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII

Sir A. Alison's Committee--General Ewart's Committee--Marlborough's forgotten victories--Wellington's minor successes--Losses at Douai --Peninsula, 1705--Gibraltar, 1727--Penins...

In the year 1910, just two centuries and a half after the event, the regiments which upheld British honour on the coast of Morocco were authorized to bear the above battle honou...

In the month of February, 1910, an Army Order was published announcing that His Majesty King Edward VII. had been graciously pleased to approve of the following regiments being...

1st Life Guards. 2nd Life Guards. Royal Horse Guards. 1st King's Dragoon Guards. 7th Dragoon Guards. 1st Royal Dragoons. Scots Greys. 3rd Hussars. 4th Hussars. 6th Inniskillings...

It commemorates the siege and capture of the fortress of Louisburg (Cape Breton's Island, North America) from the French in July, 1758. The army, which was under the command of...

The names at the head of the chapter commemorate a number of long-forgotten Indian campaigns, waged against desperate odds and extending over many years. The Colar Goldfields, D...

This honorary distinction was awarded to the 2nd European Regiment of the Bengal army for its services in the campaign undertaken in that year to defend our ally, the King of Ou...

These seven names record engagements between the allied forces of Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain, with the French at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1793 and 1794....

The battle honours conferred for services in the West Indies cover the half-century from the capture of Guadeloupe in 1759 to the third capture of the same island in the year 18...

On July 6, 1802, this distinction was conferred by King George III. on the regiments named below, "as a distinguished mark of His Majesty's royal approbation, and as a lasting m...

In the _London Gazette_ of February 28, 1851, appeared a notification that Her Majesty the Queen had been graciously pleased to sanction the bestowal of a medal on the survivors...

The campaign was entered upon with a view of preventing the Iberian Peninsula from falling under the domination of Napoleon, who, prior to the landing of our troops in Portugal...

This victory, generally considered the most glorious ever gained by British troops, was commemorated in divers manner. The first regiments of Guards were allowed to assume the t...

The conclusion of the First Mahratta War of 1803-04 left us nominally at peace with all the ruling Sovereigns in Central and Southern India. At the same time, the result of that...

This distinction is borne only by the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as the lineal descendants of that most distinguished corps the 1st Madras European Regiment, which certainly has th...

Royal Scots. South Staffords. Somerset Light Infantry. Essex. Welsh. North Lancashire. Sherwood Foresters. Royal Irish Fusiliers. Dorsets. Governor-General's Bodyguard. Royal Du...

4th Hussars. Somerset Light Infantry. The Queen's. Royal Munster Fusiliers. Leicesters. 31st D.C.O. Lancers. 3rd Skinner's Horse. 3rd Sappers and Miners. 34th Poona Horse. 2nd Q...

This distinction was accorded to the Cheshire Regiment for its services in Scinde--services which brought to the regiment the two battle honours "Meeanee" and "Hyderabad." The d...

The British conquest of the Punjab embraces two distinct phases--the one represented by the Sutlej Campaign of 1845-46, the other better known as the Punjab War of 1849. The ext...

The perennial quarrel between Russia and Turkey entered on a new phase in the year 1854, when England and France, espousing the Ottoman cause, despatched their fleets into the B...

For some inscrutable reason, the colours of those regiments which were employed in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny bear no record of their services unless they happened to...

The first China War, generally known as the "Opium War," while not entailing any very severe fighting, cost us many hundred lives, owing to the neglect of the most elementary pr...

When Holland threw in her lot with revolutionary France, the Cape became a subsidiary base for the French fleets, which put in there for provisions and water, as well as for ref...

It commemorates the gallant conduct of these three regiments in repelling the French attack on that island in the year 1781. In the early dawn of January 6 a French force, under...

This battle honour was granted to all regiments which took part in any of the operations during the course of the war in Afghanistan between the years 1878 and 1880. In the two...

It commemorates one of those gallant but little-remembered occurrences where a handful of British officers, at the head of sepoys no less brave than themselves, have upheld the...

This battle honour is borne on the colours and appointments of practically every infantry regiment in the army, in the cavalry the only regiments which were so unfortunate as no...

Until some thirty years ago, the names inscribed on the colours and appointments of our regiments were mainly in recognition of services between the years 1793 and 1815, or for...