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The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc. — John Shaqi

The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.Farmer, John S.

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The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.

Name: The regimental records of the British Army : $b a historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.
Author: Farmer, John S.

Farmer, John S.

Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army -- Organization; Great Britain. Army -- Registers

1690. Boyne.
  1691. Aughrim.
  1715. Dunblane.
  1742-48. Flanders.
  *1743. Dettingen.
  1745. Fontenoy.
  1746. Roucoux.
  1747. Val.
  1758-63. Germany.
  1759. Minden.
  1760. Warbourg.
  1760. Campen.
  1761. Kirk Denkern.
  1762. Wilhelmstahl.
  1763. Grœbenstein.
  1793-95. Flanders.
  1793. Valenciennes.
  1793. Dunkirk.
  1793. Landrecies.
  1794. Cateau.
  1794. Tournay.
  *1815. Waterloo.
  1815. Netherlands.
  *1854. Balaclava.
  *1855. Sevastopol.
  1881. Transvaal.
  1884-90. Bechuanaland, Natal, and Zululand.
  1900. South Africa.

  UNIFORM.--Scarlet with Yellow facings (from 1689). Plume, White.

  REGIMENTAL BADGE.--"The Castle of Inniskilling," with "The St.
  George's Colours Flying," and the word "Inniskilling" underneath.

  NICKNAME.--"The Skillingers"; also "The Old Inniskillings."

  NOTES.--Originally the Cavalry arm of the forces raised for the
  defence of Enniskillen in 1689 (with the Royal Irish Dragoons,
  and the Inniskilling Fusiliers, or late 27th Foot).

  BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 6th, or Inniskilling
  Regiment of Dragoons._ 1689-1843. Illustrated with plates.
  [London: Parker. 1843.]


The Seventh (The Queen's Own) Hussars.

[Illustration: THE ROYAL CYPHER WITHIN THE GARTER.]


TITLES.

  1690-1715. The Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons; also by the Colonels'
      names, amongst whom at first were Robert Cunningham, the Earl of
      Eglinton, and Lord Cardross.
  1715-27. The Princess of Wales's Own Royal Dragoons.
  1727-51. The Queen's Own Dragoons.
  1751-83. The 7th, or Queen's Own Dragoons.
  1783-1805. The 7th, or Queen's Own Light Dragoons.
  1805 (from). The 7th, or Queen's Own Hussars.


PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.

* "Honours" on the Colours.

  1694-97. Flanders.
  1694. Moorslede.
  1695. Namur.
  1711-13. Germany.
  1715. Jacobite Rising.
  1742-49. Flanders.
  *1743. Dettingen.
  1745. Fontenoy.
  1746. Roucoux.
  1747. Laffeldt.
  1760-63. Germany.
  1760. Warbourg.
  1762. Wilhelmstahl.
  1793-95. Flanders.
  1793. Valenciennes.
  1794. Cateau.
  1794. Nimeguen.
  1795. Guildermalsen.
  1799. Bergen.
  1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
  1799. Alkmaer.
  *1808-09. Peninsula.
  1808. Sahagun.
  1809. Carrion.
  1809. Benevente.
  1809. Corunna.
  1813-14. Peninsula.
  *1814. Orthes.
  1814. Toulouse.
  *1815. Waterloo.
  1815. Netherlands.
  1838-39. Canada.
  1858. Indian Mutiny.
  *1858. Lucknow.
  1881. Transvaal.
  1896. Rhodesia.

  UNIFORM.--Scarlet (1690-1784); Blue (1784-1830); Scarlet
  (1830-41); Blue (from 1841). Facings, White (1690-1818); Blue
  (from 1818). Helmet-plume, White.

  REGIMENTAL BADGE.--"The Royal Cypher within the Garter."

  NICKNAMES.--"The Old Saucy Seventh" (in the Peninsula), "The
  Lily-white Seventh" (from its light blue uniform and white
  facings, before 1818), "Young Eyes"; also "Old Straws" or
  "Strawboots" (for substituting, at Warbourg, 1760, strawbands for
  worn-out boots).

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