TWENTY-SECOND FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel the Duke of Norfolk’s Regiment of Foot. 1688 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1751 22nd Foot. 1751–1782 22nd Cheshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1688—. | Buff, 1688—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Gibraltar, 1727. Louisbourg, 1758. Quebec, 1759. Canada, 1757–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. Bunker’s Hill, 1775. | Brooklyn, 1776. America, 1775–1779. St. Lucia, 1794. Deig, 1804. Bhurtpore, 1805. Mauritius, 1810. Scinde, 1843. Meeanee, 1843. Hyderabad, 1843. |
The Regiment was raised at Chester.
It captured seventeen Standards at the Battle of Hyderabad, 1843.
It was nicknamed “The Two Twos”; also, in 1795, “The Red Knights,” from its being served out with red jackets, waistcoats, and breeches instead of the proper clothing.