1633-78. Le Régiment de Douglas.
1678-84. Colonel the Earl of Dumbarton's Regiment of Foot.
1684-1751. The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1751-1812. The 1st, or The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1812-21. The 1st, or The Royal Scots Regiment of Foot.
1821-71. The 1st, or The Royal Regiment of Foot.
1871-81. The 1st, the Royal Scots.
1881 (from). The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1673. Maestricht.
1680-83. Tangier.
1689-97. Flanders.
1689. Walcourt.
1692. Steenkirk.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1701-14. Germany.
1702. Venloo.
1704. Schellenberg.
*1704. Blenheim.
*1706. Ramilies.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Wynendale.
1708. Lisle.
1708. Ghent.
1709. Tournay.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1710. Douay.
1743-49. Flanders.
1745. Fontenoy.
1746. Culloden.
1747. Hulst.
1757-60. Canada.
*1758. Louisbourg.
1758. Ticonderoga.
1759. Guadaloupe.
1761. Dominica.
1762. Martinique.
1762. Havannah.
1793. Toulon.
1794. Corsica.
1799. Helder.
1799. Crabbendam.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1801. Aboukir.
*1801. Egypt.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
*1803. St. Lucia.
*1809-14. Peninsula.
*1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1810. Guadaloupe.
*1810. Busaco.
*1812. Salamanca.
*1813. Vittoria.
*1813. St. Sebastian.
*1813. Nive.
1814-15. Netherlands.
1814. Bayonne.
*1814. Niagara.
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo.
*1817. Nagpore.
*1817. Maheidpore.
1819. Asseerghur.
*1824-26. Ava.
1838-39. Canada.
*1854. Alma.
*1854. Inkerman.
*1855. Sevastopol.
*1860. Taku Forts.
*1860. Pekin.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet with White facings (from 1678 probably to
1684); Scarlet and Blue facings (since 1684).
REGIMENTAL BADGES.--"The Royal Cypher" within the Collar of St.
Andrew and the Crown over it. Also "The Thistle and Crown," with
the Motto of the Order, "_Nemo me impune lacessit_." Also, The
Sphinx, for Egypt (1801). In 1633 it bore the St. Andrew's Cross,
with the Thistle and Crown; and, in 1751, the distinction of the
Colours of the 2nd Batt. was a flaming ray of gold from the upper
corner of each Colour to the centre.
NICKNAME.--"Pontius Pilate's Body-guard" (from its antiquity).
NOTES.--Traditionally regarded as the ancient body-guard of the
Scottish kings, this famous corps was in the service of Sweden,
as "Hepburn's Regiment," from 1625 to 1633; and in that of France
from 1633 to 1678, when (under Dumbarton) it came to England.
It received its title in 1684 in recognition of the capture of
a Colour from the Moors at Tangier. At Sedgemoor (1685) it also
captured the Duke of Monmouth's Standard.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 1st, or Royal Regiment
of Foot._ To 1838. Illustrated. [London: Longman. 1838.]
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment),