SIXTH FOOT.

Titles.	Colour of		Campaigns, Battles, &c.
Titles.	Uniform.	Facings.	Campaigns, Battles, &c.
(It was in the service of the Prince of Orange.) 1673–1688 Colonel Sir Henry Bellasis’s Regiment of Foot. 1688–1689 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1689–1751 6th Foot. 1751–1782 6th First Warwickshire. 1782–1832 6th Royal First Warwickshire. 1832——	Scarlet, 1688—.	Yellow, 1673–1832. Blue, 1832—.	Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Steenkirk, 1692. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1692–1696. Barcelona, 1705. Almanza, 1707. Saragossa, 1710. Spain, 1705–1713. Minorca, 1708.	Carthagena, 1741. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. Guadaloupe, 1794. Roleia, 1808. Vimiera, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Flushing, 1809. Vittoria, 1813. Maya, 1813.	Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Niagara, 1813. Cape of Good Hope, 1846–1853. Indian Mutiny, 1858.

The Regiment is one of those that came from Holland with King William III.; it was then known as “the Old Holland Regiment.”

It bears “the Antelope” which is said= to have been granted for the capture of a Colour of “the Royal African Regiment” at Saragossa, which bore that badge; also “the Rose and Crown.” It is said= to have once borne the motto “Vi et armis.”

Its MS. Records say its facings were once of a peculiar colour, Orange with a shade of Dutch Pink, this was before 1742.

It was nicknamed “Guise’s Geese,” from its Colonel’s name from 1735 to 1763; also “the Warwickshire Lads”; and “the Saucy Sixth.”