=1st Batt.=
1740-48. The 48th (The 5th or Cochrane's Marines) Regiment; disbanded.
1740-51. Colonel James Cholmondeley's (or successive Colonels')
Regiment of Foot.
1751-82. The 48th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot.
=2nd Batt.=
1740-48. The 58th Regiment of Foot; renumbered the 47th, and now The
1st Batt. Loyal North Lancashire.
1756-57. The 58th Regiment of Foot; renumbered The 56th.
1755-57. The 60th Regiment of Foot; renumbered The 58th.
1757-82. The 58th Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Northamptonshire Regiment.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion
concerned.
1744-47. Flanders.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Culloden.
1747. Val.
1758-62. Canada.
*1758. Louisbourg (1 & 2).
*1759. Quebec (1 & 2).
1760. Sillery.
1760. Montreal.
1762. Martinique.
1762. Havannah.
*1779-83. Gibraltar (2).
1794. Martinique.
1796. St. Lucia.
1798. Minorca.
1800. Malta.
*1801. Egypt (2).
1801. Aboukir.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Alexandria.
*1806. Maida (2).
1809. Scylla.
*1809-14. Peninsula (1 & 2).
*1809. Douro (1).
1809. Oporto.
*1809. Talavera (1).
1810. Busaco.
*1811. Albuera (1).
1812. Ciudad Rodrigo.
*1812. Badajos (1).
*1812. Salamanca (1 & 2).
1812. Burgos.
*1813. Vittoria (1 & 2).
*1813. Pyrenees (1 & 2).
*1813. Nivelle (1 & 2).
1813. Nive.
*1814. Orthes (1 & 2).
1814. Bordeaux.
*1814. Toulouse (1).
1814. Plattsburg.
1834. Coorg.
*1849-56. New Zealand (2).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
*1879. South Africa (2).
1881. Transvaal.
*1897-98. Tirah.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--1st Batt., Red (afterwards Scarlet) with Buff facings
(from 1741 to 1881). 2nd Batt., Scarlet with White (or Buff)
facings (1755-1767); Scarlet with Black facings (1767-1881). The
facings for both battalions are now White.
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The Castle and Key," with the
motto, "_Montis Insignia Calpe_" (for the defence of Gibraltar by
the 58th). Also "The Sphinx," for "Egypt" (1801--also an honour
of the 58th).
NICKNAMES.--"The Black Cuffs" (from the facings of the 58th in
1767). Also "The Steel Backs."
NOTES.--It was declared of The 48th that they saved the day at
Talavera by their "advance, position, and steadiness"--hence
"Talavera" on the helmet and waist-plates.
Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment),