After this disaster, the few troops which remained were employed in defensive operations for the preservation of Catalonia. The QUEEN'S dragoons were stationed a short time at Manresa on the river Cardener, to refresh their horses; and after the fall of Lerida, the army went into winter quarters. The Earl of Galway embarked for Lisbon, and Brigadier-General Carpenter remained in command of the troops in Catalonia. [Sidenote: 1708] The QUEEN'S dragoons had suffered so severely at the battle of Almanza, that the officers were sent to England in March 1708, and the regiment was ordered to be recruited to sixty men per troop. The recruiting was carried on with rapidity, and the difference in the state of the regiment may be seen from two different returns in one year; in the first its numbers are 150, and in the second 303. [Sidenote: 1709] [Sidenote: 1710] [Sidenote: 1711] [Sidenote: 1712] [Sidenote: 1713] In 1709 the regiment mustered 443 men, and it continued at the same number during the two following years; but in October 1712 a reduction of ten men per troop took place. In 1713 it was quartered in North Britain, and mustered 339 men. [Sidenote: 1714] After the accession of King George I. in 1714 there being no Queen Consort on the throne, the regiment was honoured with the distinguished title of THE KING'S OWN REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS. [Sidenote: 1715] In the summer of 1715 the regiment marched to Glasgow, in consequence of disturbances in that neighbourhood; and on the 8th of September it joined the camp at Stirling under Major-General Whetham, which was formed to oppose the Earl of Mar, who had raised the standard of rebellion, and proclaimed the Pretender at Aberdeen, Dundee, and Perth. The Duke of Argyle afterwards reviewed the troops at Stirling, as Commander-in-Chief in Scotland.