TWENTY-FIFTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
The Edinburgh Regiment of Foot. 1689–1751
25th Edinburgh Regiment. 1751–1782
25th Sussex. 1782–1805
25th, The King’s Own Borderers. 1805——		Scarlet, 1689—.Yellow, 1689–1805.
Blue, 1805—.		Steenkirk, 1692.
Neer-Landen, 1693.
Namur, 1695.
Flanders, 1692–1697.
Gibraltar, 1727.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Roucoux, 1746.
Val, 1747.
Flanders, 1743–1747.
Cherbourg, 1758.
Minden, 1759.
Warbourg, 1760.		Campen, 1760.
Denkern, 1761.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1768–1763.
Gibraltar, 1782–1783.
Toulon, 1794.
Corsica, 1794.
Helder, 1799.
Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
Egypt, 1801.
Martinique, 1809.

The Regiment was raised to defend the City of Edinburgh.

It bears “The Castle of Edinburgh,” with the motto “Nisi Dominus frustra”; also “The King’s Crest,” with motto “In veritate religionis confid=o”; also “The White Horse” with “Nec aspera terrent”; and “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

It captured two stand of Colours at the battle of Val, 1847.

It is said= its facings once were Orange, if so it was before 1742.

It is commonly known as “The K. O. Bs.”