The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment),
COMPRISING
1st & 2nd Batts. (formerly) The 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment; with
3rd Batt. The Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia.
"Nemo me impune lacessit."
The Thistle and Crown. The St. Andrew's Cross. The Sphinx.
TITLES.
1633-78. Le Régiment de Douglas.
1678-84. Colonel the Earl of Dumbarton's Regiment of Foot.
1684-1751. The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1751-1812. The 1st, or The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1812-21. The 1st, or The Royal Scots Regiment of Foot.
1821-71. The 1st, or The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1871-81. The 1st, the Royal Scots.
1881 (from). The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1673. Maestricht.
1680-83. Tangier.
1689-97. Flanders.
1689. Walcourt.
1692. Steenkirk.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1701-14. Germany.
1702. Venloo.
1704. Schellenberg.
*1704. Blenheim.
*1706. Ramilies.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Wynendale.
1708. Lisle.
1708. Ghent.
1709. Tournay.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1710. Douay.
1743-49. Flanders.
1745. Fontenoy.
1746. Culloden.
1747. Hulst.
1757-60. Canada.
*1758. Louisbourg.
1758. Ticonderoga.
1759. Guadaloupe.
1761. Dominica.
1762. Martinique.
1762. Havannah.
1793. Toulon.
1794. Corsica.
1799. Helder.
1799. Crabbendam.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1801. Aboukir.
*1801. Egypt.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
*1803. St. Lucia.
*1809-14. Peninsula.
*1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1810. Guadaloupe.
*1810. Busaco.
*1812. Salamanca.
*1813. Vittoria.
*1813. St. Sebastian.
*1813. Nive.
1814-15. Netherlands.
1814. Bayonne.
*1814. Niagara.
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo.
*1817. Nagpore.
*1817. Maheidpore.
1819. Asseerghur.
*1824-26. Ava.
1838-39. Canada.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
*1860. Taku Forts.
*1860. Pekin.
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet with White facings (from 1678 probably to 1684); Scarlet and Blue facings (since 1684).
Regimental Badges.—"The Royal Cypher" within the Collar of St. Andrew and the Crown over it. Also "The Thistle and Crown," with the Motto of the Order, "Nemo me impune lacessit." Also, The Sphinx, for Egypt (1801). In 1633 it bore the St. Andrew's Cross, with the Thistle and Crown; and, in 1751, the distinction of the Colours of the 2nd Batt. was a flaming ray of gold from the upper corner of each Colour to the centre.
Nickname.—"Pontius Pilate's Body-guard" (from its antiquity).
Notes.—Traditionally regarded as the ancient body-guard of the Scottish kings, this famous corps was in the service of Sweden, as "Hepburn's Regiment," from 1625 to 1633; and in that of France from 1633 to 1678, when (under Dumbarton) it came to England. It received its title in 1684 in recognition of the capture of a Colour from the Moors at Tangier. At Sedgemoor (1685) it also captured the Duke of Monmouth's Standard.
Bibliography.—Historical Record of the 1st, or Royal Regiment of Foot. To 1838. Illustrated. [London: Longman. 1838.]