Brewer's: 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”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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