SEVENTEENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Solomon Richards’s Regiment of Foot. 1688–1689 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1689–1751 17th Foot. 1751–1782 17th Leicestershire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1688—. | Greyish White, 1688–1790. White, 1790—. | Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1693–1697. Venloo, 1702. Liege, 1702. Germany, 1702–1704. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1704–1709. Louisbourg, 1758. Canada, 1757–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. | Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. America, 1775–1781. Helder, 1799. Crabbendam, 1799. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Hindoostan, 1804–1823. Affghanistan, 1839. Ghuznee, 1839. Khelat, 1839. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised chiefly in London and its vicinity; it and the present 16th Foot are the only two remaining out of twelve raised in 1688.
It bears “The Royal Tiger” which Badge was granted for its services in India from 1804 to 1823.
It captured a Standard at Ghuznee 1839, also at Khelat 1839.
It was nicknamed “The Bengal Tigers” from its Badge; also “The Lily-whites” from its facings.
EIGHTEENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel the Earl of Granard’s Regiment of Foot. 1684–1686 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1686–1695 The Royal Regiment of Ireland. 1695–1751 18th, The Royal Irish. 1751—— | Scarlet, 1684—. | Blue, 1684—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1693–1697. Venloo, 1702. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Neer-Hespen, 1705. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Lisle, 1708. Tournay, 1709. Malplaquet, 1709. Bouchain, 1711. Germany, 1702–1712. | Gibraltar, 1727. Flanders, 1745. Lexington, 1775. Bunker’s Hill, 1775. America, 1775–1776. Toulon, 1793. Corsica, 1794. Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. China, 1840–1842. Rangoon, 1852. Pegu, 1852–1853. Sevastopol, 1855. New Zealand, 1863–1866. |
The Regiment is the only one now in existence out of nineteen that was raised in Ireland from Independent Companies of musketeers and pikemen.
It bore the Cross of St. Patrick till 1695.