1759-64. The 79th Regiment of Foot.
1778-84. The 79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) Regiment of Foot; also
The Liverpool Blues; disbanded.
1793-1804. The 79th (Highland--Cameronian Volunteers) Regiment.
1804-73. The 79th (Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.
1873-81. The 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment.
1881 (from). The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1762. Manilla.
1783. Carnatic.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Nimeguen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1800. Quiberon.
1800. Ferrol.
1800. Vigo.
1800. Cadiz.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Egypt.
1801. Alexandria.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1808-14. Peninsula.
1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1810. Cadiz.
1810. Busaco.
*1811. Fuentes d'Onor.
*1812. Salamanca.
1812. Burgos.
*1813. Pyrenees.
*1813. Nivelle.
*1813. Nive.
*1814. Toulouse.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo.
1815. Netherlands.
*1854. Alma.
1854. Balaclava.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1858. Indian Mutiny.
*1858. Lucknow.
1874. Ashantee.
*1882. Egypt.
*1882. Tel-el-Kebir.
*1884-85. Nile.
*1898. Atbara.
*1899. Khartoum.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet with Green facings (1793-1873); Scarlet with
Blue facings (from 1873).
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The Thistle ensigned with the
Imperial Crown" (with the change of title in 1873). "The Sphinx"
for "Egypt," (1801).
NOTES.--This is the sole Territorial Regiment having one line
battalion only.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Records of the 79th Queen's Own
Cameron Highlanders._ By Captain Mackenzie, Lieutenant Ewart, and
Lieutenant Findlay. [Devonport: Swiss. 1887.]
_Some Account of the Part Taken by the 79th Regiment, or
Cameron Highlanders, in the Indian Mutiny, 1858._ By Captain D.
Dunberley. [Inverness, 1891.]
The Royal Irish Rifles,