20th Regiment of Foot

Peyton's Regiment of Foot 20th Regiment of Foot 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot Lancashire Fusiliers
Cap badge of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Active	1688–1968
Country	Kingdom of England (1688–1707)  Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)  United Kingdom (1801–1968)
Branch	British Army
Type	Line infantry
Role	Fusilier
Size	1-2 Regular battalions 2 Militia and Special Reserve battalions 1-4 Territorial and Volunteer battalions Up to 24 Hostilities-only battalions
Garrison/HQ	Wellington Barracks, Bury
Nickname(s)	The Two Tens The Minden Boys Kingsley's Stand
Motto(s)	Omnia audax
Anniversaries	Gallipoli (25 April) Minden (1 August) Inkerman (5 November)
Insignia
Hackle	Primrose

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many centuries and wars, including the Second Boer War both World War I and World War II, and had many different titles throughout its 280 years of existence. In 1968 the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Fusilier Brigade–the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)–to form the current Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

By a commission dated 20 November 1688 the regiment was formed in Torbay, Devon under Sir Richard Peyton as Peyton's Regiment of Foot. (The regiment's name changed according to the name of the colonel commanding until 1751.) The regiment served in the Glorious Revolution under King William III and at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), it aided in the capture of Spanish galleons at Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702. The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 and at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745. It also served at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745.