THIRTY-SIXTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Thomas Allnutt’s Regiment of Foot. 1701
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1701–1751
36th Foot. 1751–1782
36th Herefordshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1701—.Green, since 1742.Almanza, 1707.
Spain, 1704–1708.
Flanders, 1744–1745.
Cherbourg, 1758.
Belle-Isle, 1761.
Bangalore, 1791.
Nundy-Droog, 1791.
Seringapatam, 1792.
Pondicherry, 1793.
Hindoostan, 1783–1798.
Buenos-Ayres, 1806.		Monte-Vid=eo, 1807.
Roleia, 1808.
Vimiera, 1808.
Corunna, 1809.
Flushing, 1809.
Salamanca, 1812.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Toulouse, 1814.
Peninsula, 1808–1814.

The Regiment was raised in Ireland.

It bears the motto “Firm,” but it is not known when or how. Tradition asserts that it commemorates its steadiness when attacked in rear by French Cavalry; it first appears officially in 1835.

It was nicknamed “The Saucy Greens,” from its facings.