TWENTIETH FOOT.
The Regiment was raised in Devonshire.
It is said= to have borne the motto “Omnia audax,” but when is not known.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed “The Two Tens”; also “The Minden Boys” and “Kingsley’s Stand,” from its conduct at Minden 1759, and its Colonel’s name from 1756–1769.