-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The King’s Own Royal |Scarlet,| Blue, |Boyne, 1690. Regiment of Dragoons. | 1683--.|1683--. |Flanders, 1694–1697. 1683–1690| | |Barcelona, 1705. The Royal Regiment of | | |Almanara, 1710. Dragoons. 1690–1751| | |Saragossa, 1710. 1st, or Royal Dragoons. | | |Spain, 1702–1712. 1751----| | |Dettingen, 1743. | | |Fontenoy, 1745. | | |Flanders, 1742–1745. | | |Warbourg, 1760. | | |Campen, 1760. | | |Wilhelmstahl, 1762. | | |Germany, 1760–1763. | | |Cateau, 1794. | | |Villers-en-Couché, | | | 1794. | | |Tournay, 1794. | | |Flanders, 1793–1795. | | |Peninsula, 1809–1814. | | |Waterloo, 1815. | | |Netherlands, 1815. | | |Balaklava, 1854. | | |Sevastopol, 1854. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was formed from some Troops of Cavalry at Tanjiers called the “Tanjier Cuirassiers,” who assisted at the defence of that place for seventeen years against the Moors, from whom they captured a standard in 1680. It wore the cuirass till 1684, at which time each Troop bore a crimson standard, with badges of the King, the Black Prince, King Henry V., King Henry VI., King Henry VII., and Queen Elizabeth respectively. It bears the Crest of England within the Garter, and the motto “Spectemur agendo.” It also bears an Eagle in commemoration of its capture of the Eagle of the 105th French Regiment at the battle of Waterloo. It captured a Standard of the “Mousquetaires Noirs” at the battle of Dettingen. At the close of the eighteenth century it was known as the “Royal English Dragoons.” SECOND DRAGOONS.