The Moorish legions, having been driven from before the town with severe loss, this victory was followed by a treaty of peace, and the troops of horse raised by the Earl of Ossory, Sir John Lanier, and Robert Pulteney, not having left England, were disbanded. [Sidenote: 1682] [Sidenote: 1683] The improved military system introduced among the Moors by European renegades, having rendered it necessary to employ a much stronger garrison at Tangier than formerly, the subject was brought before parliament; but the question of a popish successor to the throne was agitating the people, and no grant was voted. The king, being unwilling to bear the expense of the fortifications and troops without pecuniary aid from parliament, resolved to destroy the works and mole, and to withdraw the garrison. At this period the attention of King Charles II. was directed to the improvement of his army; and, resolving to retain the Tangier HORSE in his service, he commissioned Colonel JOHN CHURCHILL (afterwards the great DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH) to raise a troop of dragoons at St. Alban's and its vicinity; and VISCOUNT CORNBURY (son of the Earl of Clarendon) to raise another troop of dragoons at Hertford; and His Majesty constituted these two troops, with the four troops of Tangier horse, a regiment, to which he gave the distinguished title of THE KING'S OWN ROYAL REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS: the words "KING'S OWN" were, however, discontinued soon afterwards, and the regiment was styled "THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS."[15] The colonelcy was conferred on JOHN CHURCHILL, who was advanced to the peerage of Scotland by the title of Baron Churchill of Aymouth; and the lieutenant-colonelcy on VISCOUNT CORNBURY, by commission dated the 19th of November, 1683. [Sidenote: 1684] The establishment was fixed by a warrant bearing date the 1st of January, 1684, from which the following is an extract:-- "CHARLES R. "CHARLES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. "OUR WILL AND PLEASURE IS, that this establishment of our Guards, garrisons, and land forces within our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Islands thereunto belonging, and of all other officers and charges therein expressed, do commence on the 1st day of January, 1683-4, in the Thirty-Fifth year of our Reign."