FORTY-FOURTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel James Long’s Regiment of Foot. 1741–1743 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1743–1751 44th Foot. 1751–1782 44th East Essex. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1741—. | Yellow, 1741—. | Ticonderoga, 1758. Louisbourg, 1758. Canada, 1755–1760. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. America, 1775–1780. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. Guadaloupe, 1794. Flanders, 1794–1795. | St. Lucia, 1796. Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. Ionian Islands, 1809. Matagorda, 1810. Badajos, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Burgos, 1812. Peninsula, 1810–1813. Bladensburg, 1814. Baltimore, 1814. | New Orleans, 1814. Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814. Antwerp, 1814. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–15. Ava, 1824–1826. Cabool, 1841–1842. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. Taku Forts, 1860. |
The Regiment was raised in the southern counties of England.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It captured the Eagle of the 62nd French Infantry at Salamanca.
It is nicknamed “The Two Fours” from its number; also “The Little Fighting Fours,” from its being a hard-fighting Regiment, and the men of small stature.