30th Foot
| 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot | |
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Badge of the 30th (Cambridgshire) Regiment of Foot
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| Active | 1702–1881 |
| Country |
 United Kingdom (1801-1881) |
| Branch |
 British Army
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| Type | Infantry |
| Garrison/HQ | Burnley Barracks, Burnley |
| Nickname(s) | The Triple X's |
| Colors | Pale yellow facings |
| Engagements |
Capture of Gibraltar French campaign in Egypt and Syria Peninsular War Napoleonic Wars Crimean War |
Kingdom of England (1702-1707)
Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1801)
The 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot to form the East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.
The regiment was originally raised in Lincolnshire by Viscount Castleton as Lord Castleton's Regiment of Foot in 1689, during the Nine Years' War. In 1691 travelled to Flanders. In 1694 the colonelcy of the unit changed and it became Colonel Thomas Sanderson's Regiment of Foot. With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 the war came to an end. Sanderson's Regiment returned to England, where it was disbanded on 4 March 1698.
By 1702 England was involved in the European conflict which became known as the War of the Spanish Succession. Sanderson was commissioned to reform his regiment as marines. In February 1702 Thomas Sanderson's Regiment of Marines (or the 1st Regiment of Marines) was reraised in Lincolnshire. The unit took part in the capture and defence of Gibraltar in July 1704. It subsequently took part in the campaign led by the Earl of Peterborough and was involved in the capture of Barcelona in September 1705. The regiment's title changed with the name of its colonel: Thomas Pownall (1704–1705) and Charles Wills (from 1705).
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