It was nicknamed “the Holy Boys,” from selling Bibles for drink in the Peninsula; also “the Fighting Ninth.”

TENTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel the Earl of Bath’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1695
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1695–1751
10th Foot. 1751–1782
10th North Lincolnshire. 1782——		Blue, 1685–1696.
Scarlet, 1696—.		Scarlet, 1685.
Yellow, 1742—.		Steenkirk, 1692.
Flanders, 1690–1696.
Liege, 1702.
Schellenberg, 1704.
Blenheim, 1704.
Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Ramilies, 1706.
Oudenarde, 1708.
Lisle, 1708.
Ghent, 1708.
Tournay, 1709.		Malplaquet, 1709.
Bouchain, 1711.
Germany, 1701–1713.
Lexington, 1775.
Bunker’s Hill, 1775.
Brooklyn, 1776.
Brunx, 1776.
Brandywine, 1777.
Germantown, 1777.
Freehold, 1778.
America, 1775–1778.		Egypt, 1801.
Flushing, 1809.
Ionian Islands, 1809.
Peninsula, 1812–1814.
Sobraon, 1846.
Punjaub, 1848–1849.
Mooltan, 1849.
Goojerat, 1849.
Lucknow, 1857.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.

The Regiment was chiefly raised in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

It was the only Regiment of Foot dressed in Blue when raised.

It bears “The Sphinx,” for Egypt, 1801.

It is not known when its facings were changed from Scarlet.

It was nicknamed “The Springers,” as were the 62nd, during the American War.

ELEVENTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel the Marquis of Worcester’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1687
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1687–1751
11th Foot. 1751–1782
11th, North Devonshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1685—.Tawny, 1685.
Green, in 1742—.		Boyne, 1690.
Germany, 1703–1704.
Almanza, 1707.
Spain, 1706–1708.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Douay, 1710.
Germany, 1708–1711.
Dettingen, 1743.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Roucoux, 1746.		Flanders, 1742–1748.
Corbach, 1760.
Warbourg, 1760.
Campen, 1760.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1760–1763.
Toulon, 1793.
Corsica, 1794.
Flushing, 1809.
Busaco, 1810.		Sabugal, 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Burgos, 1812.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Toulouse, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.