It is commonly known as “The K. O. Bs.”
TWENTY-SIXTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel The Earl of Angus’s Regiment of Foot. 1689–1692 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1692–1751 26th Foot. 1751–1786 26th Cameronians. 1786—— | Scarlet, 1689—. | White, 1689–1713. Yellow, 1713—. | Steenkirk, 1692. Neer-Landen, 1693. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1691–1695. Blenheim, 1704. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Lisle, 1708. Ghent, 1708. Malplaquet, 1709. Douay, 1710. Bouchain, 1711. | Germany, 1702–1713. Gibraltar, 1727. St. John’s, 1775. America, 1775–1781. Egypt, 1801. Corunna, 1809. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Flushing, 1809. Peninsula, 1811–1812. China, 1840–1842. Abyssinia, 1868. |
The Regiment was formed from the Glasgow Cameronian Guard, known as “The Cameronians,” being raised from the followers of Richard Cameron, one of the preachers of the religious sect who took his name.
It was known as “The Scots” about 1762.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801; and “The Dragon” for China, 1842.
TWENTY-SEVENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel Zachariah Tiffin’s Regiment of Foot. 1689–1702 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1702–1751 27th Inniskilling. 1751—— | Scarlet, 1689—. | Buff, 1689—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Carthagena, 1741. Ticonderoga, 1758. Canada, 1756–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Germantown, 1777. America, 1775–1778. St. Lucia, 1778. Nieuport, 1793. Nimeguen, 1794. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1794–1795. | Grenada, 1796. St. Lucia, 1796. Helder, 1799. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. Maid=a, 1806. Scylla, 1809. Albuera, 1811. Badajos, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. St. Sebastian, 1813. | Bid=assoa, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Plattsburg, 1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Cape of Good Hope, 1834–1835. Cape of Good Hope, 1846–1847. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was formed from three Regiments of the Inniskilling forces.
It bears “a Castle with three Turrets and St. George’s Colours flying,” with the word “Inniskilling,” which badge it received for its gallant defence of the Castle of Inniskilling in 1691; also “The White Horse” with the motto “Nec aspera terrent”; also “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.