TWENTIETH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel Sir Richard Peyton’s Regiment of Foot. 1688–1689 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1689–1751 20th Foot. 1751–1782 20th, East Devonshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1688—. | Yellow, 1688—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Caya, 1709. Spain, 1707–1712. Gibraltar, 1727. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Flanders, 1742–1745. Cherbourg, 1758. Minden, 1759. Warbourg, 1760. Campen, 1760. Denkern, 1761. | Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1758–1763. Stillwater, 1777. America, 1776–1781. Crabbendam, 1799. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Egypt, 1801. Maid=a, 1806. Vimiera, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Flushing, 1809. | Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. St. Sebastian, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. Lucknow, 1858. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was raised in Devonshire.
It is said= to have borne the motto “Omnia audax,” but when is not known.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed “The Two Tens”; also “The Minden Boys” and “Kingsley’s Stand,” from its conduct at Minden 1759, and its Colonel’s name from 1756–1769.