FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
60th Foot. 1755–1757
58th Foot. 1757–1782
58th Rutlandshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1755—.White or Buff, 1755–1767.
Black, 1767—.		Louisbourg, 1758.
Quebec, 1759.
Sillery, 1760.
Canada, 1758–1762.
Havannah, 1762.
Gibraltar, 1779–1783.
Martinique, 1794.
Minorca, 1798.
Aboukir, 1801.
Mandora, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Egypt, 1801.		Maid=a, 1806.
Scylla, 1809.
Salamanca, 1812.
Burgos, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Plattsburg, 1814.
New Zealand, 1849–1856.

The Regiment was raised in the south-west of England.

It bears “The Castle and Key” with the motto “Montis Insignia Calpe” for its share in the defence of Gibraltar; also “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

It was nicknamed “The Black Cuffs” from its facings; also “The Steel Backs.”

The first Regiment numbered the 58th was raised in 1755, it is now the 56th West Essex.