The Regiment was raised in Ireland.
THIRTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Luke Lillingston’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1708 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1708–1751 38th Foot. 1751–1782 38th First Staffordshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Yellow, 1702—. | Guadaloupe, 1759. Bunker’s Hill, 1775. Brooklyn, 1776. America, 1775–1780. Flanders, 1794–1795. Cape of Good Hope, 1806. Buenos-Ayres, 1806. Monte-Vid=eo, 1807. Roleia, 1808. Vimiera, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Flushing, 1809. Busaco, 1810. Badajos, 1812. | Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. St. Sebastian, 1813. Bid=assoa, 1813. Nive, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Bayonne, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. Ava, 1824–1826. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. Lucknow, 1858. Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858. |
The Regiment was raised in Ireland.
It was nicknamed “The Pump and Tortoise.”
THIRTY-NINTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Richard Coote’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1703 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1703–1751 39th Foot. 1751–1782 39th East Mid=dlesex. 1782–1807 39th Dorsetshire. 1807—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Green, 1702—. | Caya, 1709. Spain, 1707–1712. Gibraltar, 1727. Plassey, 1757. Gibraltar, 1779–1784. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. Guadaloupe, 1794. Albuera, 1811. Arroyo-dos-Molinos, 1811. | Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Tarbes, 1814. Bayonne, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Maharajpore, 1843. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised in Ireland.
It bears the motto “Primus in Indis” in consid=eration of its being the first Regiment to serve in India (it was given originally by the Nabob of Arcot, who presented it with a Drum-Major’s cane); also “The Castle and Key” with motto “Montis Insignia Calpe,” for its share in the defence of Gibraltar, 1779–1784.
It captured four guns and two Standards at the battle of Maharajpore, 1843.