Battle Honours
The 1st Foot Guards have received 79 battle honours, which they gained for their involvement in the following conflicts:
- various actions near the Strait of Gibraltar
- the War of the Spanish Succession, including Oudenarde
- the War of the Austrian Succession
- the Peninsular War
- the Napoleonic Wars, including Waterloo
- the Crimean War
- the Urabi Revolt
- the Opium Wars
- the Sudan Campaign
- the Boer Wars
- First World War (Western Front) and Second World War (North Africa, Italy, Northwest Europe)
- the Persian Gulf War
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)