SEVENTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 78th Highland (Ross-shire Buffs). 1793—— | Scarlet, 1793—. | Buff, 1793—. | Nimeguen, 1794. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1794–1795. Ahmednugger, 1803. Assaye, 1803. Argaum, 1803. Maid=a, 1806. Rosetta, 1807. Egypt, 1807. Java, 1811. | Antwerp, 1814. Netherlands, 1814–1815. Persia, 1856–1857. Kooshab, 1857. Cawnpore, 1857. Lucknow, 1857. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was raised at Fort George.
It bears “The Elephant,” which badge was given for its conduct at the battle of Assaye, 1803; and it was also presented by the East India Company with honorary Colours for that action.
Its motto is “Cuid=ich’r Rhi” (or “Help the King” or “He saved the King”) which is the motto of the McKenzies, one of whom saved one of the Kings of Scotland; it is nicknamed from this “The King’s Men.”
The first Regiment numbered 78th was the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders, or Second Highland Battalion, raised in 1757; it served at Louisbourg and Quebec, and was disbanded in 1763.
The second was the 78th (Seaforth) Highlanders, now the 72nd, The Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders.