1650-60. Colonel Monck's Regiment of Foot: also (popularly) Monck's
Coldstreamers.
1660-61. The Lord General's Regiment of Foot.
1661-70. The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards.
1670-1817. The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.
1817 (from). The Coldstream Guards.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1680-83. Tangier.
1689-97. Flanders.
1689. Walcourt.
1692. Steenkirk.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1704-8. Spain.
1704. Gibraltar.
1705-6. Barcelona.
1707. Almanza.
1707-13. Germany.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Ghent.
*1709. Malplaquet
1711. Bouchain.
1742-45. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1758. Cherbourg.
1760-62. Germany.
1761. Denkern.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1776-81. America.
1776. Brooklyn.
1777. Brandywine.
1777. Germantown.
1778. Freehold.
1781. Guildford.
1793-95. Flanders.
1793. St. Amand.
1793. Valenciennes.
*1793. Lincelles.
1794. Tournay.
1794. Cateau.
1799. Helder.
1799. Crabbendam.
1799. Bergen.
1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1799. Alkmaer.
*1801. Egypt.
1801. Aboukir.
1801. Alexandria.
1801. Marabout.
1805. Hanover.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1809-14. Peninsula.
1809. Flushing.
1809. Douro.
*1809. Talavera.
1811. Fuentes d'Onor.
*1811. Barossa.
1812. Ciudad Rodrigo.
1812. Badajos.
1812. Burgos.
1812. Salamanca.
1813. St. Sebastian.
1813. Vittoria.
1813. Pyrenees.
1813. Bidassoa.
1813. Nive.
1813. Nivelle.
1814. Bayonne.
1814-15. Netherlands.
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo.
1827-28. Portugal.
1838-42. Canada.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
*1882. Egypt.
*1882. Tel-el-Kebir.
*1885. Suakim.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet faced with Green (1650-70); Scarlet faced with
Blue (from 1670).
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--In 1660 a red cross on a green
ground with six white balls; in 1684 a St. George's Cross,
bordered white on a blue ground. The _Regulation_ device is
for 1st and 3rd Batts., the Star of the Order of the Garter,
surmounted by the Imperial Crown; 2nd Batt., a Star of eight
points within the Garter, surmounted by the Imperial Crown, the
Union within the dexter canton. Also in twos, in succession, as
the Colours are renewed, the following company badges conferred
by Royal Authority in 1751:--
(1) A White Lion.
(2) The Prince of Wales's Feathers.
(3) A Spotted Panther.
(4) Two Crossed Swords.
(5) The George and Dragon.
(6) A Red Rose within the Garter.
(7) A Centaur.
(8) Two Golden Sceptres crossed.
(9) The Golden Knot of the Collar of the Garter.
(10) An Escarbuncle.
(11) A White Boar with golden bristles.
(12) A Dun Cow.
(13) A Red and White Rose empaled with a Pomegranate.
(14) The White Horse of Hanover.
(15) The Electoral Bonnet of Hanover.
(16) The Hanover Horse.
Also "The Sphinx" for Egypt.