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The Royal Arms.

TITLES.

1660–85. The 1st, or His Majesty's Own Troop of Guards.

1685–1788. The 1st Troop of Life Guards of Horse.

1788 (from). The 1st Life Guards.

PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

1673. Maestricht.

1690. Boyne.

1692–97. Flanders.

1692. Steenkirk.

1693. Neer Landen.

*1743. Dettingen.

*1812–14. Peninsula.

*1815. Waterloo.

1815. Netherlands.

*1882. Egypt.

*1882. Tel-el-Kebir.

1884–5. Khartoum.

Uniform.—Scarlet (from 1660). Facings, Blue (probably from 1660, certainly from 1679). Plume, White.

Regimental Badge.—"The Royal Arms."

Nicknames.—"The Cheeses:" when re-modelled in 1788 the veterans declined to serve, alleging that the regiments of Life Guards then consisted of cheesemongers, not gentlemen; also "The Piccadilly Butchers" (having been called out to quell the Piccadilly Riots in 1810); also "Tin Bellies" (from the cuirasses); also "The Patent Safeties."

Notes.—Raised in Holland by Charles II., when in exile, and composed mainly of (80) Cavaliers who had fought in the Civil War under Charles I. The 3rd and 4th (Scots) Troops of Life Guards, added at the Union, but disbanded in 1746, saw much service in Flanders (1742–47). The 1st Life Guards wore cuirasses from its formation to 1698, and resumed them in 1821.