THIRTEENTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel the Earl of Huntingdon’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1688
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1751
13th Foot. 1751–1782
13th First Somersetshire. 1782–1822
13th First Somersetshire Light Infantry. 1822–1842
13th First Somersetshire, Prince Albert’s Light Infantry. 1842——		Scarlet, 1685—.Yellow, 1685–1842.
Blue, 1842—.		Boyne, 1690.
Venloo, 1702.
Liege, 1702.
Flanders, 1701–1703.
Gibraltar, 1704–1705.
Barcelona, 1705.
Caya, 1709.
Spain, 1704–1711.
Gibraltar, 1727.
Dettingen, 1743.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Roucoux, 1746.
Val, 1747.
Flanders, 1742–1748.		Mandora, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Egypt, 1801.
Martinique, 1809.
Guadaloupe, 1810.
Plattsburg, 1814.
Ava, 1824–1826.
Affghanistan, 1839.
Ghuznee, 1839.
Jellalabad, 1842.
Cabool, 1842.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.

The Regiment was chiefly raised in Buckinghamshire.

It received its Title and Badge of “A Mural Crown” in 1842 for its defence of Jellalabad, where it captured three Standards from the Affghans; it also bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

The officers and sergeants were permitted to wear the knots of their sashes on the right sid=e for its conduct at the Battle of Culloden, 1746; and it is said= that the black worm in the lace was also granted for that battle.

Twenty-seven officers and six hundred and sixty men of the Regiment were formed into a Regiment of Dragoons in 1706, which served at the Battle of Almanza 1707. It was disbanded in 1713.