The Lancashire Fusiliers,
COMPRISING
1st and 2nd Batts. (formerly) The 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot; two other batts. have been sanctioned; also Militia Batts.
5th and 6th Batts. The 7th Royal Lancashire Militia.
"Omnia audax."
The Sphinx with Wreath and Crown.
TITLES.
1688-89. Colonel Sir Robert Peyton's Regiment of Foot.
1689-1751. [Its Colonel's name] Regiment of Foot (in 1689 Colonel Gustavus Hamilton, afterwards Viscount Boyne).
1751-82. The 20th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Lancashire Fusiliers.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1690. Boyne.
1691. Athlone.
1691. Aughrim.
1707-12. Spain.
1709. Caya.
1727. Gibraltar.
1742-45. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Culloden.
1758. Cherbourg.
1758-63. Germany.
1759. Minden.
1760. Warbourg.
1760. Campen.
1761. Denkern.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1776-81. America.
1777. Stillwater.
1799. Crabbendam.
1799. Bergen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1799. Alkmaer.
1800. Quiberon.
*1801. Egypt.
*1806. Maida.
*1808-14. Peninsula.
*1808. Vimiera.
*1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1813. Vittoria.
*1813. Pyrenees.
1813. St. Sebastien.
*1814. Orthes.
*1814. Toulouse.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
*1858. Lucknow.
*1898. Khartoum
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet and Pale Yellow (at formation); Scarlet and White (present time).
Regimental Badge.—"The Sphinx" with a laurel wreath surmounted by a Crown for "Egypt" (1801). Also (time uncertain) the Motto, "Omnia audax."
Nicknames.—"The Two Tens" (XXth). "The Minden Boys" (at Minden, in 1759, the regiment sported roses, obtained from a garden close by, in their hats; in memory of distinction then won, a custom still obtains of wearing "Minden Roses" every 1st of August). "Kingsley's Stand" (also from its conduct at Minden and its Colonel's name).
Notes.—Raised in Devonshire on the landing of William of Orange, afterwards William III.
Bibliography.—Historical Record of The 20th, or East Devonshire Regiment. 1688-1848. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1848.]
Orders, Memoirs, &c., connected with The 20th Regiment. By Lieut. F. W. Barlow, 2nd Batt. 20th Regiment. [Minden Press. 1868.]
History of The 20th Regiment. 1688-1888. By Lieutenant and Quartermaster B. Smyth, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. [London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1889.]