SIXTY-NINTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
69th Foot. 1758–1782
69th South Lincolnshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1758—.Green, 1758—.Belle-Isle, 1761.
St. Lucia, 1778.
Toulon, 1793.
Corsica, 1794.
St. Vincent, 1797.
Helder, 1799.
Bergen, 1799.
Bourbon, 1809.		Mauritius, 1810.
Java, 1811.
Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814.
Quatre-Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 1814–1815.
India, 1805–1826.

It was formerly the second Battalion of the 24th Foot, raised in 1756, and retained that Regiment’s facings on being made the 69th.

Nelson called a detachment of the Regiment his “Old Agamemnons” at the naval battle of St. Vincent, 1797.