SEVENTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
The Regiment was raised at Fort George.
It bears “The Elephant,” which badge was given for its conduct at the battle of Assaye, 1803; and it was also presented by the East India Company with honorary Colours for that action.
Its motto is “Cuid=ich’r Rhi” (or “Help the King” or “He saved the King”) which is the motto of the McKenzies, one of whom saved one of the Kings of Scotland; it is nicknamed from this “The King’s Men.”
The first Regiment numbered 78th was the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders, or Second Highland Battalion, raised in 1757; it served at Louisbourg and Quebec, and was disbanded in 1763.
The second was the 78th (Seaforth) Highlanders, now the 72nd, The Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders.