Category: History - British
There are five occurrences of a regimental badge identity portrayed as a large-text fraction without a -- under the 'numerator'. These have been modified in the etext to V/D.G. 7/DG 4/H XX/H and XXI/H.
There are five occurrences of a regimental badge identity portrayed as a large-text fraction without a -- under the 'numerator'. These have been modified in the etext to V/D.G....
2. Part 21678-1737. The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons; also (_c._ 1702) "The Grey Dragoons," and "The Scots Regiment of White Horses." 1737-51. The Royal Regiment of North British Dra...
3. Part 31715. Jacobite rising. 1746. Culloden. 1794-95. Flanders. 1796. West Indies. *1808-14. Peninsula. *1809. Douro. *1809. Talavera. 1809. Oporto. 1810. Busaco. 1810. Barca de Avint...
4. Part 4NOTES.--The Regiment of Coldstream Guards is the direct and only descendant of the Parliamentary Infantry, all other corps having been disbanded at the Restoration. It derives i...
5. Part 51685-1702. The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment. 1702-16. The Queen's Regiment. 1716-51. The King's Regiment; also the King's Hanoverian White Horse. 1751-1881. The 8th (The...
6. Part 61690. Boyne. 1691. Limerick. 1691. Aughrim. 1693-97. Flanders. 1695. Namur. 1702-15. Germany. 1702. Venloo. 1702. Liége. 1704. Schellenberg. *1704. Blenheim. 1705. Neer-Hespen....
7. Part 7REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The Castle of Inniskilling with St. George's Colours" (in recognition of the defence of the Castle of Inniskilling in 1691). Also "The White Horse...
8. Part 81705-7. Spain. 1705. Barcelona. 1706. Montjuich. 1709-12. Germany. 1710. Douay. 1711. Bouchain. 1718. Vigo. 1727. Gibraltar. 1744. Flanders. 1745. Fontenoy. 1745. Jacobite risin...
9. Part 9NOTES.--The 1st Battalion of this famous corps, the oldest Highland regiment in the British army, was raised (_circa_ 1725-29) from six Independent companies of Highlanders. Its...
10. Part 10NICKNAMES.--"The Blind Half-Hundred" (of the late 50th, many of its men suffering severely from ophthalmia in Egypt, 1801). "The Dirty Half-Hundred" (at Vimiera, where the 50th...
11. Part 111759-62. India 1759. Guadaloupe. 1760. Wyndewash. 1760. Arcot. 1760. Villanova. 1761. Martinique. 1761. Pondicherry. 1762. Havannah. 1775-81. America. 1775. Bunker's Hill. 1782....
12. Part 12=1st Batt.= (formerly) The 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot. =2nd Batt.= ( " ) The 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot; with Militia Battalions. =3rd Batt.=...
13. Part 131664-89. The Lord Admiral's (H.R.H. The Duke of York and Albany's) Maritime Regiment; also ranked as The 3rd Foot: drafted into The Coldstreams. 1694-97. Maritime Regiments: sev...