On the 1st of July, 1751, a royal warrant was issued regulating the standards, colours, and clothing of the several regiments. At this period the costume of the Twelfth foot was—cocked hats, bound with white lace, scarlet coats faced and lined with yellow, and ornamented with white lace; scarlet waistcoats and breeches, and white gaiters. The first, or Kings colour, was the great union; the second, or regimental colour, was of yellow silk, in the centre XII. in gold characters, within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk, and the union in the upper canton.
MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE.
TWELFTH
REGIMENT OF FOOT.
1752
Towards the end of the year 1751 the Twelfth were relieved from duty at Minorca by the fifty-first regiment, and returned to England, where they arrived in the beginning of 1752.
1755
1756
1757
The progress of colonization in North America involved Great Britain in disputes with the French government respecting the country near the river Ohio, which occasioned the commencement of the Seven Years' War, in 1756. The establishment of the Twelfth regiment was augmented on this occasion; and in 1757 it consisted of two battalions.
General Skelton died on the 9th of April, 1757, and King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the Twelfth foot on Major-General Robert Napier, from the fifty-first regiment.
1758