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Kingsley’s Stand

the 20th Foot. Called “Kingsley’s” from their colonel (1756–1769); and called “Stand” from their “stand” at Minden in 1759. Now called the “Lancashire Fusiliers.”

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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.