[7] Serjeant-Major Rosser was appointed cornet in the regiment in 1818, lieutenant in 1819, and captain in 1831, without purchase; he was adjutant from October, 1818, to September, 1831; and retired from the service by the sale of his commission 8th January, 1841. [8] So named from the motley and tattered state of their garments, owing to the constant exposure and hard work to which they had been subjected. [9] In the narrative of the campaigns of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, by Lieut.-Colonel Cadell, is the following remark in relation to the action at St. Gaudens:-- "This gallant corps (the THIRTEENTH) in a very short time cut the Tenth French Hussars to pieces, taking upwards of one hundred men and horses. Captain Macalister, who commanded the advance, distinguished himself. When we came up, the sight was truly melancholy: throughout the many actions in which we had taken share, we never had seen men and horses so dreadfully mangled. The horses were sold next day; but the best brought very little." [10] The seal used by the THIRTEENTH when a corps of heavy cavalry, with the motto "_Viret in æternum_" on a scroll upon it, is still preserved in the regiment. The same motto was also embroidered on the green horse furniture used when the regiment was heavy. [11] On this march the regiment lost forty men by cholera, and two from other causes. SUCCESSIONS OF COLONELS OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS. RICHARD MUNDEN, _Appointed 22nd July, 1715_. RICHARD MUNDEN served under King William III. in the Netherlands, and also under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough, and was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1706. On the 6th of May, 1709, he succeeded Lord Lovelace in the colonelcy of a regiment of foot, which served in the war of the Spanish succession, and after distinguishing itself at Saragossa in 1710, it was surrounded and made prisoners in the mountains of Castille, by the army under the Duke of Vendosme. In 1711 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general; but the peace of Utrecht being concluded soon afterwards, his regiment was disbanded, and he remained unemployed until the summer of 1715, when he was commissioned to raise a corps of dragoons--now the THIRTEENTH regiment of Light Dragoons. He distinguished himself in the attack of the rebels at Preston, in Lancashire, in November, 1715; and was removed to the eighth dragoons in 1722. He died in 1725. SIR ROBERT RICH, BARONET, _Appointed 19th November, 1722_.