The Corps Battle Honour
When asked to list suitable battle honours for the presentation of new Colours in 1827 the Corps produced a list of 110. This great range of honours led King George IV to determine that the Globe encircled with Laurel should become the Corps’ crest. The new colours presented to the Royal Marines in 1827 bore the single battle honour “Gibraltar”. HRH The Duke of Clarence when presenting the new colours stated “…Marines were engaged in this capture and none but Marines were employed by the Price of Hesse in the glorious defence…”
The 110 Battle Honours listed for the King were published in the December 1893 issue of The Globe and Laurel
1704 Gibraltar, off Toulon; 1706 Ostend, Barcelona; 1708 Defeat of Spanish Plate Fleet, Minorca; 1718 Off Messina; 1719 Vigo, Port Antonio; 1740 Porto Bello, Paita; 1745 Cape Breton, Louisburgh; 1747 Defeat of the French Squadron by Anson, Defeat of the French Squadron by Hawke; 1748 Port Louis, Hispaniola; 1758 Pondicherry, Chandernagore, Goree, Guadaloupe; 1759 Defeat of the French Fleet off Lagos, Defeat of the French Fleet off Quiberon; 1761 Dominique, Belleisle, Martinico; 1762 Havannah, Manilla; 1775 Bunker Hill; 1776 Charleston; 1778 St Lucia, off Ushant, off St Vincent, 1781 Doggerbank; 1782 Off Dominique, East Indies, off Porto Rico, Trincomalee, Tiberoon, 1793 Defence of Toulon, Tobago; 1794 Martinique, Cape Tiberoon, Guadaloupe, St Lucia; Glorious 1st of June; 1795 Off L'Orient, off St Fiorenzo, Corsica &c, Cape of Good Hope; Trincomalee; Colombo, Malacca, Chinsura, Cochin, Demerara, Essequibo, Berbice; 1796 Off the Saintes, Loana; 1797 Cape St Vincent, Camperdown, Teneriffe; 1798 Battle of the Nile; 1799 St Jean d'Acre, Holland; 1800 Malta, Genoa, Quiberon; 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, Aboukir, St Bartholomew, St Thomas, Santa Cruz, St Martin, St Eustatia, Ternate, off Cabarita Point, Boulogne; 1804 Diamond Rock; 1805 Off Cape Finisterre, Trafalgar, Bay of Biscay; 1806 Ocoa Bay, St Domingo, Cape of Good Hope; 1807 Monte Video, Capture of Copenhagen, Charente, Lord Cochrane's action; 1809 Walcheren, 1810 Isle de Bourbon, Mauritius; 1811 Java, Barossa, Defence of Cadiz; 1812 Attack and Defence of Anholt; 1813 Castro, St Andro, Bilboa, St Sebastian, Hampton, Queenstown; 1814 Oswego, Bladensburg, Washington; 1815 St Mary's, New Orleans; 1816 Algiers.