=1st Batt.=
1702-51. Colonel Richard Coote's (or successive Colonels') Regiment
of Foot.
1751-82. The 39th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1807. The 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot.
1807-81. The 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot.
=2nd Batt.=
1755-57. The 56th Regiment of Foot; renumbered.
1757-82. The 54th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Dorsetshire Regiment.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion
concerned.
1707-12. Spain.
1707. Almanza (?).
1709. Caya.
1718. Messina.
1727. Gibraltar.
1757. Calcutta.
*1757. Plassey (1).
1776-81. America.
1776. Brooklyn.
1778. Rhode Island.
1778. Connecticut.
*1779-84. Gibraltar (1).
1780. Charlestown.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Martinique.
1794. St. Lucia.
1794. Guadaloupe.
1796. St. Vincent.
1800. Isle Houat.
1800. Cadiz.
1800. Minorca.
1800. Malta.
1801. Egypt (2).
1801. Aboukir.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
*1801. Marabout (2).
1806. Buenos Ayres.
1807. Montevideo.
*1809-14. Peninsula (1).
1810. Busaco.
*1811. Albuera (1).
1811. Arroyo-dos-Molinos.
1812-14. Canada.
1812. Badajos.
*1813. Vittoria (1).
*1813. Pyrenees (1).
*1813. Nivelle (1).
*1813. Nive (1).
1814-15. Netherlands.
*1814. Orthes (1).
1814. Tarbes.
1814. Bayonne.
1814. Toulouse.
1814. Plattsburg.
1814. Antwerp.
*1824-26. Ava (1).
*1843. Maharajpore (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
*1858-59. Indian Mutiny.
*1897-98. Tirah.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--1st and 2nd Batts., Scarlet with Green facings (at
formation); Scarlet with White facings (present time).
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES, &C.--The motto, "_Primus in Indis_"
(the 39th Foot was the first King's Regiment to serve in India).
Also "The Castle, Key, and Motto"--"_Mortis Insignia Calpe_"
(for defence of Gibraltar--1779-83). Also the "Marabout Sphinx"
for "Egypt" (1801)--at this battle a gun, now at Woolwich, was
captured by the 54th.
NICKNAMES, &C.--"Sankey's Horse" (of the 39th, 1707, from its
Colonel's name, and a tradition that to expedite its march to
Almanza it was mounted on mules). Also (_circa_ 1742) "The Green
Linnets" (from its pea-green facings).
NOTES.--The 39th captured four guns and two standards at
Maharajpore in 1843.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 39th, or Dorsetshire
Regiment of Foot._ 1702-1853. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1853.]
_Records of the 54th West Norfolk Regiment._ [Roorkee: Thomason.
1851.]
The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment),