The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

Great Britain. Army

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                             |     Colour of   |
             Titles.         +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel the Earl of      |Scarlet,| Green, |Steenkirk, 1692.
      Plymouth’s Regiment of | 1685--.|  1685– |Neer-Landen, 1693.
      Horse.        1685–1687|        |   1765.|Flanders, 1691–1697.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    |        | White, |Schellenberg, 1704.
                    1687–1746|        | 1765,  |Blenheim, 1704.
    3rd Dragoon Guards.      |        | and in |Neer-Hespen, 1705.
                    1746–1765|        |  1785. |Ramilies, 1706.
    3rd, or Prince of Wales’s|        |Blue in |Oudenarde, 1708.
      Dragoon Guards.        |        | 1818–  |Malplaquet, 1709.
                     1765----|        |  1819. |Bouchain, 1711.
                             |        |Yellow, |Germany, 1702–1714.
                             |        |1819--. |Minden, 1759.
                             |        |        |Corbach, 1760.
                             |        |        |Warbourg, 1760.
                             |        |        |Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
                             |        |        |Germany, 1758–1763.
                             |        |        |Dunkirk, 1793.
                             |        |        |Cateau, 1794.
                             |        |        |Tournay, 1794.
                             |        |        |Flanders, 1793–1795.
                             |        |        |Talavera, 1809.
                             |        |        |Albuera, 1811.
                             |        |        |Vittoria, 1813.
                             |        |        |Peninsula, 1809–1814.
                             |        |        |Abyssinia, 1868.
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in
various English counties.

It wore cuirasses for three years, and again from 1704 to 1714.

It bears the Plume of the Prince of Wales, the Rising Sun, and the Red
Dragon.

It is not known when its facings were changed to Blue.

It captured the Standard and Kettle Drums of the Bavarian Guards at the
battle of Ramilies.


                        FOURTH DRAGOON GUARDS.

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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

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