The King's (Liverpool Regiment),
COMPRISING
1st & 2nd Batts. (formerly) The 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot; the 3rd and 4th Batts. recently sanctioned; with Militia Battalions.
5th & 6th Batts. The 2nd Lancashire Militia.
The Cypher and Crown.
The White Horse and Garter.
The Sphinx.
TITLES.
1685-1702. 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 King's) Regiment.
1881 (from). The King's (Liverpool Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1690. Boyne.
1691. Limerick.
1696-97. Flanders.
1701-14. Germany.
1702. Venloo.
1702. Liége.
1704. Schellenberg.
*1704. Blenheim.
*1706. Ramilies.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Lisle.
1709. Tournay.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1710. Douay.
1715. Jacobite rising.
1715. Dunblane.
1742-48. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Falkirk.
1746. Culloden.
1746. Roucoux.
1747. Val.
1760-63. Germany.
1760. Corbach.
1760. Warbourg.
1760. Zierenberg.
1760. Campen.
1761. Kirch Denkern.
1761. Grafenstein.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1768. America.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Martinique.
1794. Guadaloupe.
1794. Nimeguen.
1794. St. Lucia.
1796. Grenada.
*1801. Egypt.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1809. Martinique.
1809. Flushing.
1812-14. America.
1813-14. Quebec.
1814. Plattsburg.
*1814. Niagara.
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
1857. Cawnpore.
*1857. Delhi.
1857. Pillour.
*1857. Lucknow.
1857. Agra.
*1876-80. Afghanistan.
*1878. Peiwar Kotal.
*1885-87. Burma.
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet and bright Yellow facings (1685 to 1716); Scarlet and Blue facings (from 1716).
Regimental and other Badges.—"The White Horse within the Garter" (for services during the Jacobite rising of 1715, the corps suffering heavily at Dunblane. At the same time and for a similar reason it received its title of "King's"). Also "The Royal Cypher and the Imperial Crown." Also "The Sphinx," for Egypt (1801). Motto, "Nec aspera terrent" ("Nor do difficulties terrify us").
Notes.—Raised chiefly in Derbyshire at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion.
Bibliography.—Historical Record of the 8th, or King's Regiment of Foot. 1685-1844. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1844.]
Historical Record of The King's (Liverpool) Regiment of Foot. 1685-1881. By General Cunningham Robertson. Illustrated. [London: Harrison. 1883.]