THIRTY-EIGHTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Luke Lillingston’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1708
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1708–1751
38th Foot. 1751–1782
38th First Staffordshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1702—.Yellow, 1702—.Guadaloupe, 1759.
Bunker’s Hill, 1775.
Brooklyn, 1776.
America, 1775–1780.
Flanders, 1794–1795.
Cape of Good Hope, 1806.
Buenos-Ayres, 1806.
Monte-Vid=eo, 1807.
Roleia, 1808.
Vimiera, 1808.
Corunna, 1809.
Flushing, 1809.
Busaco, 1810.
Badajos, 1812.		Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
St. Sebastian, 1813.
Bid=assoa, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Bayonne, 1814.
Peninsula, 1808–1814.
Ava, 1824–1826.
Alma, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Lucknow, 1858.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.

The Regiment was raised in Ireland.

It was nicknamed “The Pump and Tortoise.”