| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 59th Foot. 1755–1757 57th Foot. 1757–1782 57th West Mid=dlesex. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1755—. | Green, 1755–1767. Yellow, 1767—. | Brooklyn, 1776. York Town, 1781. America, 1776–1782. Nieuport, 1793. Nimeguen, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. St. Lucia, 1796. Albuera, 1811. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. | Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Asseerghur, 1819. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. Indian Mutiny, 1858. New Zealand, 1861–1866. |
The Regiment was raised in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire.
It was nicknamed “The Die Hards” from its Colonel (Inglis) calling to the men “Die hard, my men, die hard” at the battle of Albuera, 1811, where it had thirty bullets through the King’s Colour, and only had one officer out of twenty-four, and one hundred and sixty-eight men out of five hundred and eighty-four, left standing.
The first Regiment numbered the 57th was raised in 1755, and is now the 55th Westmoreland.
FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 60th Foot. 1755–1757 58th Foot. 1757–1782 58th Rutlandshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1755—. | White or Buff, 1755–1767. Black, 1767—. | Louisbourg, 1758. Quebec, 1759. Sillery, 1760. Canada, 1758–1762. Havannah, 1762. Gibraltar, 1779–1783. Martinique, 1794. Minorca, 1798. Aboukir, 1801. Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. | Maid=a, 1806. Scylla, 1809. Salamanca, 1812. Burgos, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Plattsburg, 1814. New Zealand, 1849–1856. |
The Regiment was raised in the south-west of England.
It bears “The Castle and Key” with the motto “Montis Insignia Calpe” for its share in the defence of Gibraltar; also “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed “The Black Cuffs” from its facings; also “The Steel Backs.”
The first Regiment numbered the 58th was raised in 1755, it is now the 56th West Essex.