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A HISTORY OF SUSSEX and two years later suffered severely in the Egyptian expedition. The first battalion took part in the capture of the Ionian Islands in 1810 and remained in garrison at Corfu till 18 18. The second battalion was in the Walcheren expedition of 1809, served at Bergen-op-Zoom and Antwerp in 1813, and formed part of the reserves at Huy during the battle of Waterloo ; after taking part in the occupation of Paris it returned to England and was disbanded in October 1815. In 1832 the Sussex regiment received the title of Royal, its facings being there- fore changed to blue. During the Indian Mutiny the Royal Sussex were badly cut up at Jagdespore in April 1858. While the first battalion of the present Royal Sussex was thus constituted out of the 35th Foot, the second battalion was formed out of the East India Company's 3rd Bengal European Infantry, which was raised in 1854, served through the Mutiny and was incorporated, in 1 86 1, in the British Army as the 107th Foot. The third battalion was formed from the Royal Sussex Militia, and there are three volunteer battalions, namely, the late ist Sussex Rifies with the Brighton College and Christ's Hospital cadet corps, the late 2nd Sussex Rifles with Hurst- pierpoint. Lancing and Ardingly cadet corps, and the ist Cinque Ports and Sussex with Eastbourne College cadets. The regiment served at Abu Klea in 1884, with Sir Charles Wilson's expedition to Khartoum in 1885, and has since earned distinction on the Indian frontier and in South Africa.' In 1900 the 3rd Brigade Cinque Ports Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) were embodied as the Sussex R.G.A. There are also two volunteer brigades of R.G.A., the first with headquarters at Brighton, and the second (heavy artillery) at Eastbourne, and the headquarters of the 2nd Cinque Ports R.G.A. are at St. Leonards. APPENDIX DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY Till the end of the eleventh century, and possibly later, it is probable that the county of Sussex possessed no exact northern boundary, the dense forest of Andredsweald rendering the accurate definition of the bounds between this county and the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and Kent a task of greater difficulty than advantage. Evidence of this is shown in Domesday Book by the surveying of Worth and Lodsworth under Surrey, and also by the fact that the present parishes of North and South Ambersham, well within the limits of Sussex, were part of Hampshire as late as 1834. On the east the estuary of the Rother, with its exten- sive marshes, formed a natural boundary, as the inlet of Chichester harbour did on the west. These bounds, once settled, appear to have remained unaltered until 1894, when the ecclesias- tical parish of Broadwater Down was separated from Frant and included in the county of Kent. The following year the Sussex portion of Lamberhurst was annexed to Kent, and the Kentish portion of Broomhill given to Sussex. "^ Lawrence-Archer, Regimental Records; and Army List. A monument at Brighton and a memorial at Hastings have recently been erected in honour of the regiment's service in South Africa, 536