Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 3rd
_Appointed 18th May, 1712_.
LORD THOMAS WINDSOR, second son of Thomas Earl of Plymouth, the first
Colonel of this regiment, served with distinction in the army in the
wars of King William III., and, on the 23rd of January, 1692, he
obtained the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the FOURTH HORSE. On the 16th of
February, 1694, he was appointed to the Colonelcy of a newly-raised
regiment of horse, which was disbanded after the peace of Ryswick.
On the 19th of June, 1699, he was advanced to the peerage of Ireland
by the title of VISCOUNT WINDSOR. After the decease of the Earl of
Macclesfield, in 1701, the Colonelcy of the Tenth Horse was conferred
upon Viscount Windsor, who was promoted, on the 9th of March,
1702, to the rank of Brigadier-General, and on 1st of January,
1704, to that of Major-General. In October of the latter year his
regiment was given to Samuel (afterwards Lord) Masham. The rank of
Lieutenant-General was, however, conferred upon his Lordship in 1707;
in April, 1711, he was restored to the Colonelcy of the Tenth Horse;
and in December of the same year, he was made an English Peer, by the
title of Baron Montjoy, of the Isle of Wight. The Colonelcy of the
FOURTH HORSE was conferred upon his Lordship in 1712; from which he
was removed, by King George I., in 1717: he died in 1738.
GEORGE WADE,
_Appointed 19th March, 1717_.
This officer engaged in the profession of arms in the reign of
William III., and, after serving the Crown with zeal and fidelity
for many years, he was eventually rewarded with the highest honours
of the service. His first commission was dated the 26th of December,
1690; and he served in the Netherlands under King William until the
peace of Ryswick. Having rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of
the Tenth Regiment of Foot, he proceeded, on the breaking out of the
war of the Spanish succession, with the expedition to Portugal, and
was appointed Adjutant-General to the army commanded by the Earl of
Galway, with the brevet rank of Colonel, by commission dated the 22nd
of August, 1704. After the death of Colonel Duncasson, who was killed
at the siege of Valencia de Alcantara, in May, 1705, the command of
the Thirty-third Foot was conferred upon COLONEL WADE, by commission
bearing date the 9th of June in the same year. Continuing to serve
in the Peninsula, and, by his personal exertions, gaining laurels
even in the midst of the reverses and disasters which befell the
army, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General on the 1st of
January, 1708; and, in the following year he received a complimentary
communication from King Charles III. (afterwards Emperor of the
Romans), with the commission of Major-General in Spain; in which
country he served during the remainder of the war, and highly
distinguished himself in the command of a brigade of infantry at the
battle of Saragossa in 1710.
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