F. Evolutions required at the Inspection of a Regiment, 1759 245 List of Illustrations PAGE Lieutenant-Colonel John Hale _Frontispiece_ H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G., Colonel-in-Chief 17th Lancers _To face_ 1 Seventeenth Light Dragoons, 1764 „ 11 Privates, 1784–1810 „ 31 Officers, 1810–1813 „ 48 Privates, 1810–1813 „ 48 Officer, Corporal, and Privates, 1814 „ 65 Officers and Private, 1817–1823 „ 87 Officers, 1824 „ 102 Privates, 1824–1829 „ 117 George, Lord Bingham „ 121 Officers, 1829 „ 128 Officer and Privates, 1829–1832 „ 143 Officers, 1832–1841 „ 155 Central India, 1858, 1859 „ 165 Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury Lowe, K.C.B. „ 179 Seventeenth Lancers, 1895 „ 227 [Illustration: W. & D. Downey Photo. Walker & Burstall Ph. Sc. _H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.G._ _Colonel-in-chief 17^{th} Lancers, 1876._] CHAPTER I THE RISE OF THE 17TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1759 [Sidenote: 1645.]