TENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel the Earl of Bath’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1695 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1695–1751 10th Foot. 1751–1782 10th North Lincolnshire. 1782—— | Blue, 1685–1696. Scarlet, 1696—. | Scarlet, 1685. Yellow, 1742—. | Steenkirk, 1692. Flanders, 1690–1696. Liege, 1702. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Neer-Hespen, 1705. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Lisle, 1708. Ghent, 1708. Tournay, 1709. | Malplaquet, 1709. Bouchain, 1711. Germany, 1701–1713. Lexington, 1775. Bunker’s Hill, 1775. Brooklyn, 1776. Brunx, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. America, 1775–1778. | Egypt, 1801. Flushing, 1809. Ionian Islands, 1809. Peninsula, 1812–1814. Sobraon, 1846. Punjaub, 1848–1849. Mooltan, 1849. Goojerat, 1849. Lucknow, 1857. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was chiefly raised in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
It was the only Regiment of Foot dressed in Blue when raised.
It bears “The Sphinx,” for Egypt, 1801.
It is not known when its facings were changed from Scarlet.
It was nicknamed “The Springers,” as were the 62nd, during the American War.