[Sidenote: 1760] In January, 1760, the following officers were holding commissions in the regiment:-- _Lieut.-Colonel Commandant_, JOHN HALE. _Major_, JOHN BLAQUIERE. _Captains._ _Lieutenants._ _Cornets._ Franklin Kirby Thomas Lea Rob. Archdall Samuel Birch William Green -- Bishopp Martin Basil Joseph Hall -- Stopford Edward Lascelles -- Wallop Henry Crofton John Burton -- Cope Jos. Moxham Samuel Townshend Y. Peyton Daniel Brown _Adjutant_, Richard Westbury, _Surgeon_, John Francis. Ten months after the authority for its formation was issued, the regiment was directed to march to Berwick, and place itself under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief in North Britain; it arrived in Scotland in October, and was stationed in that part of the United Kingdom during the following three years. [Sidenote: 1761] [Sidenote: 1762] In the spring of 1761 the regiment sent a draft of fifty men and horses to Germany, to serve under Lieut.-General the Marquis of Granby, and the Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick; and in 1762 hostilities were terminated by the treaty of Fontainbleau. [Sidenote: 1763] The restoration of peace was followed, in 1763, by reductions in the military establishment of the kingdom; but this was one of the corps selected to be retained in the service, and Lieut.-Colonel Commandant John Hale was promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment by commission dated the 27th of April, 1763. [Sidenote: 1764] From Scotland the regiment embarked, in 1764, for Ireland, where it was stationed during the succeeding eleven years. [Sidenote: 1768] The following particulars respecting the clothing and guidons of the SEVENTEENTH Light Dragoons, are extracted from His Majesty's warrant, dated the 19th December, 1768. COATS,--scarlet, with half-lappels; lined with white; white collar and cuffs; white metal buttons, and the button holes ornamented with white braid. WAISTCOATS AND BREECHES,--white. HELMETS,--ornamented with white metal and a scarlet horse-hair crest. BOOTS,--reaching to the knee. CLOAKS,--scarlet, with white capes. HORSE FURNITURE,--of white cloth; the holster caps and housings having a border of white lace with a black edge; XVII, L. D. to be embroidered upon the housings, upon a scarlet ground, within a wreath of roses and thistles; the king's cipher, with the crown over it, and XVII, L. D. underneath, to be embroidered on the holster caps; the officers to have a silver tassel on their holster caps, and at each corner of their housings. OFFICERS,--to be distinguished by silver lace or embroidery; silver epaulettes; and crimson silk sashes worn round their waists. QUARTER MASTERS,--to have no lace or embroidery on their coats; to have silver epaulettes, and crimson sashes. SERJEANTS,--to be distinguished by narrow silver lace, and crimson and white sashes.