[36] London Gazettes, Millner's Journal, and Annals of Queen Anne. [37] London Gazettes; Present State of Europe; Mémoires de Berwick; Annals of Queen Anne; and Official Records in the War-Office. [38] "Notwithstanding King Charles has received no reinforcements since he landed in Catalonia, his partisans, and the small army under the Earl of Peterborough, have been so active, that their progress looks altogether romantic, and will hardly be believed by posterity. They have not only maintained their conquest of the whole principality of Catalonia, but they have gained the kingdom of Valencia, and carried their arms as far as Alicant; at the same time they blockaded Roses, though the two places were above four hundred miles one from the other."--_Present State of Europe_, January, 1706. [39] Doctor Freind's Account of the Earl of Peterborough's Conduct in Spain. [40] The Present State of Europe for 1708. [41] List of British troops which surrendered in the village of Brihuega, 9th December, 1710:-- Harvey's horse, now second dragoon guards. Royal Dragoons (one squadron), now first, or the royal dragoons. Pepper's dragoons, now the eighth light dragoons. Stanhope's dragoons, disbanded. Foot Guards, one battalion. Harrison's foot, now the sixth. Wade's ditto, now the thirty-third. Dormer's ditto, disbanded. Bowle's ditto, ditto. Gore's ditto, ditto. Munden's ditto, ditto. Dalzel's ditto, ditto. [42] Marching Order Books and Establishment Books in the War-Office. [43] The seventh and eighth regiments of dragoons were disbanded after the Peace of Utrecht; but the seventh was restored, as stated above, and the eighth in a few months afterwards. [44] Two newly-raised corps, afterwards disbanded. [45] Annals of George I., &c. [46] The Lieutenant of the Colonel's troop was styled Captain-Lieutenant. [47] London Gazette. [48] War-Office Establishment Book. [49] Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston rose to the rank of general: he was, at different periods, colonel of the ninth dragoons, first horse (now fourth dragoon guards), and sixth dragoons: he was also governor of Quebec. He died 13th December, 1797, and was interred in Westminster Abbey. He wrote a Journal of the Campaign of 1760, which has been forwarded to the compiler of this record by his grandson, Major Frederick Johnston, unattached. [50] Journal of Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston, Royal Dragoons, MS. [51] Journal of the Campaigns in Germany, by an Officer present with the Army. [52] On the 19th of December, 1768, a royal warrant was issued for regulating the clothing, horse-furniture, and standards of the regiments of cavalry, which contained similar directions to the warrant of the 1st of July, 1751. See page 65. [53] Official Records, Adjutant-General's Office. [54] GENERAL ORDERS. "The heavy cavalry, with the exception of the two regiments of life guards and royal regiment of horse guards, are to be mounted on nag-tailed horses.