The Regiment was raised in Devonshire, Somerset, and Dorsetshire.
It captured the Drums of the 11th French Infantry at Flushing; and a Green Standard without an Eagle from the French at Salamanca, where it was nearly cut to pieces, and was nicknamed accordingly “The Bloody Eleventh.”
It is not known when the facings were changed to Green.
TWELFTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel the Duke of Norfolk’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1686 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1686–1751 12th Foot. 1751–1782 12th East Suffolk. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | White, 1685. Yellow, in 1742. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Flanders, 1694–1697. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Flanders, 1742–1745. Minden, 1759. Denkern, 1761. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1758–1763. Gibraltar, 1779–1783. Martinique, 1794. | Guadaloupe, 1794. Nimeguen, 1794. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1794–1795. Mallavelly, 1799. Seringapatam, 1799. India, 1798–1807. Bourbon, 1810. Mauritius, 1810. Cape of Good Hope, 1851–1853. New Zealand, 1863–1866. |
The Regiment was raised in Norfolk and Suffolk.
It bears “The Castle and Key” (the arms of Gibraltar), with the motto “Montis Insignia Calpe,” for its share in the defence of Gibraltar.
It captured eight stand of Colours at the storming of Seringapatam.
It is not known when its facings were changed from White.