The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment),
COMPRISING
1st & 2nd Batts. (formerly) The 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment; Batts. 3 and 4 recently sanctioned; with Militia (three Battalions).
5th Batt. The Royal Westminster Militia.
6th Batt. The Royal London Militia; and
7th Batt. The Royal South Middlesex Militia.
The United Rose and Garter. The White Horse.
TITLES.
1685-89. "Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers"; also "Our Ordnance Regiment"; formerly "The Tower Guards."
1689-1881. The 7th (Royal Fusiliers).
1881 (from). The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1689-90. Flanders.
1690. Cork.
1690. Kinsale.
1692-96. Flanders.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1702. Cadiz.
1704-9. Spain.
1705-6. Barcelona.
1707. Lerida.
1773-82. America.
1775. Quebec.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1809. Peninsula.
*1809. Talavera.
*1809. Martinique.
1810. Busaco.
*1811. Albuera.
*1812. Badajos.
*1812. Salamanca.
*1813. Vittoria.
*1813. Pyrenees.
1813. Bidassoa.
*1814. Orthes.
*1814. Toulouse.
1814. Bordeaux.
1814. America.
1815. New Orleans.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
*1879-80. Afghanistan.
*1880. Kandahar.
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Red, with Yellow facings (1685); Red and Dark Blue facings (in 1742); now Scarlet and Blue facings.
Regimental and other Badges.—"The United Red and White Rose within the Garter, with the Crown over it." Also "The White Horse."
Nicknames, &c.—"The Hanoverian White Horse." "The Elegant Extracts."
Notes.—Raised at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion.
Bibliography.—Historical Record of the 7th Regiment, or Royal Fusiliers. 1685-1846. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1847.]
Historical Record of the 7th, or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Printed for private circulation. By Colonel G. H. Waller, Royal Fusiliers. [Dublin. 1877.]