=1st Batt.=
1702-51. Colonel The Earl of Huntingdon's (or successive Colonels')
Regiment of Foot.
1751-82. The 33rd Regiment of Foot.
1782-1853. The 33rd (1st York, West Riding) Regiment of Foot.
1853-81. The 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment.
=2nd Batt.=
1756-63. The 76th Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1777-84. The 76th (Macdonald's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1787-1812. The 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot.
1812-81. The 76th Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion
concerned.
1702-4. Germany.
1704-10. Spain.
1705. Valentia d'Alcantara.
1707. Almanza.
1742-47. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen (1).
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Roucoux.
1746. Tongres.
1747. Val.
1758. Cherbourg.
1760-63. Germany.
1760. Corbach.
1761. Kerk Denkern.
1761. Belle-Isle.
1762. Martinique.
1776-81. America.
1776. Brooklyn.
1777. Brandywine.
1777. Germantown.
1778. Freehold.
1780. Camden.
1781. Guildford.
*1780-1806. Hindoostan (2).
1791. Bangalore.
1791. Savendroog.
1792. Seringapatam.
1794-95. Flanders.
1795. Guildermalsen.
1799. Malvelly.
*1799. Seringapatam (1).
*1800-1. Mysore (2).
*1803. Allyghur (2).
*1803. Delhi (2).
1803. Agra.
*1803. Leswarree (2).
*1804. Deig (2).
1805. Bhurtpore.
*1808-9. Peninsula (2).
1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1810. Mauritius.
*1813. Nive (2).
1813-14. Peninsula.
1813. Pyrenees.
1813. Bidassoa.
1813. Nive.
1814. Bayonne.
1814-15. Netherlands.
1814. Antwerp.
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1814. Canada.
1814. Plattsburg.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo (1).
*1854. Alma (1).
*1854. Inkerman (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
1857-58. Indian Mutiny.
*1868. Abyssinia (1).
1868. Magdala.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet (or Red) with Scarlet facings for both
regiments till the introduction of the territorial system. Now
Scarlet, faced with White.
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--(1) "The Crest and Motto of the
Duke of Wellington" (the 33rd was the first regiment commanded by
"The Hero of Waterloo," and is the only corps in the British Army
named after a subject); also (2) "The Elephant" to the 76th for
valour in India. In 1808 The East India Company presented it with
honorary colours: in conjunction with the 8th Hussars it captured
44 standards and 72 guns at Leswarree (1803).
NICKNAMES, &C.--1st Batt., "Havercake Lads" (the recruiting
sergeants, _circa_ 1782, carried oaten cakes on their
sword-points when beating up). 2nd Batt., "The Immortals" (from
most of its men having been wounded in Lake's Campaigns). "The
Pigs" (from its "Elephant" badge). "The Old Seven and Sixpennies"
(from its number, and the amount of a lieutenant's pay).
The Border Regiment,