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 Duke of      |Scarlet,| White, |Steenkirk, 1692.
       Hamilton’s Regiment of| 1685--.| 1685–  |Neer Landen, 1693.
       Horse. 1685–1688      |        |  1715. |Flanders, 1691–1697.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    |        | Light  |Peninsula, 1811–1813.
                    1688–1788|        | Blue,  |Balaklava, 1854.
    4th, or Royal Irish      |        | 1715–  |Sevastopol, 1855.
      Dragoon Guards.        |        |  1768. |
                    1788---- |        | Blue,  |
                             |        |1768--. |
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

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

It wore cuirasses on its formation.

It bears the Harp and Crown, and the Star of the Order of St. Patrick,
with the motto “Quis separabit.”

It received its title in 1788 for its long service in Ireland from
1698 to 1788, and was then commonly known as “The Blue Horse” from its
facings.


                         FIFTH DRAGOON GUARDS.

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                             |   Colour of     |
             Titles.         +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel the Duke of      |Scarlet,|  Buff, |Boyne, 1690.
      Shrewsbury’s Regiment  | 1685--.| 1685–  |Schellenberg, 1704.
      of Horse.     1685–1687|        |   1717.|Blenheim, 1704.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    |        |  Green,|Neer Hespen, 1705.
                    1687–1788|        | 1717--.|Ramilies, 1706.
    5th Dragoon Guards.      |        |        |Oudenarde, 1708.
                    1788–1804|        |        |Malplaquet, 1709.
    5th, or Princess         |        |        |Bouchain, 1711.
      Charlotte of Wales’s   |        |        |Germany, 1703–1712.
      Dragoon Guards.        |        |        |Germany, 1759–1762.
                     1804----|        |        |Cateau, 1794.
                             |        |        |Flanders, 1794–1795.
                             |        |        |Llereena, 1812.
                             |        |        |Salamanca, 1812.
                             |        |        |Vittoria, 1813.
                             |        |        |Toulouse, 1814.
                             |        |        |Peninsula, 1811–1814.
                             |        |        |Balaklava, 1854.
                             |        |        |Sevastopol, 1855.

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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

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