FORTIETH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel Richard Philips’s Regiment of Foot. 1717–1751 40th Foot. 1751–1782 40th, Second Somersetshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1717—. | Buff, 1717—. | Louisbourg, 1758. Quebec, 1759. Canada, 1757–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. America, 1776–1778. St. Lucia, 1778. Flanders, 1794–1795. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Aboukir, 1801. Mandora, 1801. | Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. Buenos Ayres, 1806. Monte-Vid=eo, 1807. Roleia, 1808. Vimiera, 1808. Talavera, 1809. Busaco, 1810. Albuera, 1811. Badajos, 1812. Cuid=ad Rodrigo, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. St. Sebastian, 1813. | Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Candahar, 1842. Ghuznee, 1842. Cabool, 1842. Maharajpore, 1843. New Zealand, 1860–1865. |
The Regiment was formed from Independent Companies raised for service in America.
It bears “The Sphinx,” for Egypt, 1801.
It captured four Standards at the battle of Maharajpore, 1843.
It was nicknamed “The Excellers,” from its number XL.