The Archive · 1914

The Royal Welsh Fusiliers (23rd

Regiment) was raised in 1689 and proceeded to Flanders in 1694, returning there in 1701 and taking part in the battles of Blenheim, Oudenarde, Ramillies, and Malplaquet, and again in 1742, fighting at Dettingen. The regiment after wards saw service at Minorca, Gibraltar, Germany (battle of Min-den, 1758), America (1763), St. Domingo (1794), Holland (1799), Egypt (1801) receiving then the badge of "Egypt"—with the Sphinx, Gibraltar (1801), Bremen (1805), Copenhagen (1807), Nova Scotia (1808), West Indies, (December 1808, capture of Martinique), hero, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and UN

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