It captured a Colour from the Seikhs at Ferozeshah, one at Aliwal, and two at Sobraon.
It was nicknamed “The Young Buffs” from the King mistaking it for the 3rd Buffs at the Battle of Dettingen 1743.
THIRTY-SECOND FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Edward Fox’s Regiment of Marines. 1702–1704 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1704–1714 Colonel Jacob Borr’s Regiment of Foot. 1714–1751 32nd Foot. 1751–1782 32nd Cornwall. 1782–1858 32nd Cornwall Light Infantry. 1858—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | White, 1702—. | Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Barcelona, 1705. Spain, 1704–1706. Flanders, 1742–1747. Copenhagen, 1807. Roleia, 1808. Vimiera, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Flushing, 1809. Salamanca, 1812. Burgos, 1812. Pyrenees, 1813. | Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Punjaub, 1848–1849. Mooltan, 1849. Goojerat, 1849. Lucknow, 1857. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines.
It received its Title in 1858 for its brilliant defence of Lucknow in 1857.
THIRTY-THIRD FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel the Earl of Huntingdon’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1704 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1704–1751 33rd Foot. 1751–1782 33rd First Yorkshire West Rid=ing. 1782–1853 33rd The Duke of Wellington’s. 1853—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Scarlet, 1702—. | Germany, 1702–1704. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1704–1708. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Roucoux, 1746. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1747. Cherbourg, 1758. Corbach, 1760. Denkern, 1761. | Germany, 1760–1763. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. Freehold, 1778. Camden, 1780. Guildford, 1781. America, 1776–1781. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1794–1795. Mallavelly, 1799. | Seringapatam, 1799. Mauritius, 1810. Antwerp, 1814. Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–15. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. Abyssinia, 1868. |
The Regiment was raised at Halifax, Yorkshire, by some accounts; others say in the mid=land counties and in Kent.
It bears “The Crest of the late Duke of Wellington” with the motto “Virtutis fortuna comes”; and received its Title in 1853 with this badge in memory of its being the first Regiment commanded by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington.