It is said= its facings once were Orange, if so it was before 1742.

TWENTY-EIGHTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Sir John Gibson’s Regiment of Foot. 1694–1704
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1704–1751
28th Foot. 1751–1782
28th North Gloucestershire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1694—.Yellow, since 1742.Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Flanders, 1704–1705.
Almanza, 1707.
Spain, 1705–1712.
Hulst, 1747.
Flanders, 1742–1747.
Louisbourg, 1758.
Quebec, 1759.
Sillery, 1760.
Canada, 1757–1760.
Martinique, 1762.
Havannah, 1762.
Brooklyn, 1776.
Brunx, 1776.
Brandywine, 1777.
Germantown, 1777.		America, 1776–1778.
St. Lucia, 1778.
Nimeguen, 1794.
Guildermalsen, 1795.
Flanders, 1794–1795.
St. Lucia, 1796.
Minorca, 1798.
Aboukir, 1801.
Mandora, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Egypt, 1801.
Copenhagen, 1807.
Flushing, 1809.
Corunna, 1809.
Barrossa, 1811.
Albuera, 1811.		Arroyo-dos-Molinos, 1811.
Almaraj, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Quatre-Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 1815.
Alma, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.

The Regiment is said= to have been raised in Ireland.

It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801; and was granted the distinction of wearing the number on the back and front of the Cap for its gallant conduct at the Battle of Alexandria, 1801.

It captured a flag of the 25th French Infantry at Waterloo, 1815.

It was nicknamed “The Old Braggs” from its Colonel’s name from 1734 to 1751; and “The Slashers” from its conduct at the passage of the river Brunx 1776, and also, it is said=, from some of the officers dressing themselves as Indians, during the American War, and cutting off the ears of a magistrate who had refused quarters to the women of the Regiment during a severe winter.

TWENTY-NINTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Thomas Farington’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1712
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1712–1751
29th Foot. 1751–1782
29th Worcestershire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1702—.Yellow, 1702—.Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Germany, 1704–1706.
Almanza, 1707.
Spain, 1706–1708.
America, 1776–1781.
Grenada, 1796.
Helder, 1799.
Bergen, 1799.
Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
Roleia, 1808.		Vimiera, 1808.
Douro, 1809.
Talavera, 1809.
Albuera, 1811.
Peninsula, 1808–1812.
Ferozeshah, 1845.
Sobraon, 1846.
Punjaub, 1848–1849.
Chillianwallah, 1849.
Goojerat, 1849.

The Regiment is said= to have been raised by the City of London.