The following Regiments were employed in Egypt, in 1801, and were permitted by His Majesty King George the Third, to bear on their colours the Sphinx, with the word “Egypt,” as a distinguished mark of His Majesty’s Royal approbation, and as a lasting memorial of the glory acquired to His Majesty’s arms by the zeal, discipline, and intrepidity of his troops in that arduous and important campaign, viz.:—

Corps. Commanding Officers.
‡8th Light Dragoons, 1 Troop Captain Hawkins.
  11th Light Dragoons, 1 Troop Captain A. Money.
  12th  ” Colonel Mervyn Archdall.
†22nd ” Lieut.-Col. Hon. Wm. Lumley.
  26th (afterwards 23rd) Light Dragoons Lieut.-Colonel Robert Gordon.
  Hompesch’s Hussars (detachment) Major Sir Robert T. Wilson.
  Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Brice.
  3rd Foot Guards, 1st Battalion Lieut.-Colonel T. Hilgrove Turner.
  Royals, 2nd Battalion Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Campbell.
  2nd Queen’s Royal Colonel the Earl of Dalhousie.
  8th Foot, King’s Colonel Gordon Drummond.
*10th   ” Lieut.-Colonel Richard Quarrell.
  13th   ” ” Hon. Chas. Colville.
  18th, Royal Irish ” Henry T. Montresor.
†20th Foot, 1st and 2nd Battalions ” George Smith.
  23rd, Royal Welsh Fusiliers ” John Hall.
†24th Foot Lieut.-Colonel John R. Forster.
†25th   ” Colonel William Dyott.
†26th   ” ”    Lord Elphinstone.
  27th, Inniskilling, 1st & 2nd Bns. Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Graham.
  28th Foot Colonel Hon. Edward Paget.
  30th   ” Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Wilkinson.
  40th   ”   (Flank Companies) Colonel Brent Spencer.
  42nd, Royal Highland Regt. Lieut.-Colonel William Dickson.
  44th Foot ” David Ogilvie.
  50th Foot Colonel Patrick Wauchope.
  54th   ”   1st and 2nd Battalions Lieut.-Colonel John Thos. Layard.
  58th   ” ” William Houston.
‡61st   ” ” Francis Carruthers.
  79th   ” Colonel Alan Cameron.
*80th   ” Lieut.-Colonel John Montresor.
*86th   ” ” James P. Lloyd.
*88th   ” Colonel Wm. Carr Beresford.
  89th   ” ” William Stewart.
  90th   ” ” Rowland Hill.
  92nd   ” Lieut.-Colonel Charles Erskine.
†De Watteville’s Regiment Lieut.-Col. Louis de Watteville.
  The Queen’s German Regiment Lt.-Col.  Peter John James Dutens.
  De Roll’s Regiment ” The Baron De Dürler.
  Dillon’s Regiment ” The Baron Perponcher.
  Royal Corsican Rangers Major Hudson Lowe.
†Ancient Irish Fencibles
†Chasseurs Britanniques Colonel John Ramsay.
  Staff Corps (detachment)

* The 10th, 80th, 86th, and 88th Regiments proceeded from the East Indies, under the orders of Major-General David Baird, to join the army in Egypt.

† The 22nd Light Dragoons, 20th (two battalions), 24th, 25th, and 26th Regiments, the Ancient Irish Fencibles, and the foreign corps of De Watteville and Chasseurs Britanniques, joined the Army in Egypt in July, 1801.

‡ One troop of the 8th Light Dragoons and the 61st Regiment, embarked from the Cape of Good Hope, joined the army under Major-General Baird at Cosseir in July, 1801, and proceeded through the Desert to Ghench, or Kenneh, on the Nile, where the troops embarked for Cairo.