TWENTY-FOURTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Sir Edward Dering’s Regiment of Foot. 1689
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1689–1751
24th Foot. 1751–1782
24th Warwickshire. 1782–1838
24th Second Warwickshire. 1838——		Scarlet, 1689—.Green, 1689—.Schellenberg, 1704.
Blenheim, 1704.
Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Germany, 1702–1710.
Carthagena, 1741.
Minorca, 1756.
Cherbourg, 1758.
Guadaloupe, 1759.
Corbach, 1760.
Denkern, 1761.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1760–1762.
Stillwater, 1777.
America, 1776–1781.
Egypt, 1801.		Cape of Good Hope, 1806.
Talavera, 1809.
Fuentes d’Onor, 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
St. Sebastian, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Punjaub, 1848–1849.
Chillianwallah, 1849.
Goojerat, 1849.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.

It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

It was nicknamed “Howard’s Greens,” from its facings, and its Colonel’s name from 1717 to 1737.