Devil’s Own
.(Connaught Boys.) The 88th Foot. So called by General Picton from their bravery in the Peninsular War, 1809–1814.
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Applied also to the Inns of Court Volunteers, the members of which are lawyers.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.