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Regimental Colour (bandera sencilla) of the Royal Regiment of Sappers Miners (1802). The Royal Engineers are created in 1711 but they do not receive a Colour until they have regularly assigned troops. Later on this Regiment is founded in 1802 and under this Colour it fought at the Battle of Bailén, during the Spanish War of Independence. The 1802 Regulation said:
...cada batallón tendrá una bandera igual en sus dimensiones a las que tienen los regimientos de Infantería. La primera será morada, con el escudo de mis Reales armas y el lema Real Cuerpo de Zapadores y Minadores; la segunda ha de ser también morada, con la cruz de Borgoña y el mismo lema; en dos de sus ángulos tendrá un castillo y en los otros dos un león.The Colour is deposited in the Army Museum (Madrid) and is ill preserved. Source: Luis Sorando Muzás [smz], Banderas, Estandartes y Trofeos del Museo del Ejército 1700-1842.
Sergio Camero, 29 Jul 2002
