Having received orders to prepare for embarkation for India, the regiment marched to Romford, where it was quartered a short time, and in February, 1819, eight troops, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Boyse, sailed from Gravesend; they were four months on the voyage, and landed at Madras on the 13th of June following. After a short halt, the regiment marched seventy-three miles up the country to Arcot, the capital of the Carnatic, where it was stationed during the remainder of the year. [Sidenote: 1820] [Sidenote: 1826] From Arcot the regiment was removed, in the early part of 1820, to Bangalore, a military station in Mysore, about two hundred miles from Madras. At this station the regiment remained upwards of six years, and in 1826, it was removed to Arcot. [Sidenote: 1828] In February, 1828, the regiment was encamped at Arcot, from whence it was removed to Arnee, a town of the Carnatic, fourteen miles south of Arcot, and was stationed at that place during the remainder of the year. [Sidenote: 1829] The regiment left Arnee in March, 1829, and once more traversed the country to Bangalore, where it was quartered during the remainder of its stay in India. [Sidenote: 1832] In 1832, the regiment was again clothed in scarlet with buff facings. The Mahommedans of Mysore entered into a combination, in which some Sepoys of the force at Bangalore joined, for the destruction of the English officers and soldiers, and the subversion of the British government in October, 1832; but the discovery of this conspiracy on the day fixed upon for its execution, caused immediate precautions to be taken, which prevented the outbreak. Many of the mutineers were taken, tried, and sentenced,--some to death,--and the remainder to transportation. The Sepoys were executed in front of the assembled force. [Sidenote: 1833] In January, 1833, the royal authority was given for the THIRTEENTH Light Dragoons to retain on their appointments the motto, "_Viret in æternum_." This motto was borne by the regiment when it was a corps of heavy cavalry, and known by the name of the "_the green dragoons_," but was discontinued on its being made light. The motto was subsequently resumed, and the privilege of bearing it was confirmed to the regiment by King William IV., as above stated[10]. [Sidenote: 1836] In December, 1836, King William IV. was pleased to command that the facing of the regiment should be altered to _green_. [Sidenote: 1839]