The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

Great Britain. Army

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                             |    Colour of    |
             Titles.         +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel Robert           |Scarlet,| White, |Flanders, 1694–1697.
      Cunningham’s Regiment  | 1690–  | 1690–  |Germany, 1711–1713.
      of Dragoons.  1690–1696|   1784.|   1818.|Dettingen, 1743.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    | Blue,  | Blue,  |Fontenoy, 1745.
                    1696–1715| 1784–  | 1818--.|Roucoux, 1746.
    The Princess of Wales’s  |   1830.|        |Val, 1747.
      Own Royal Dragoons.    |Scarlet,|        |Flanders, 1742–1749.
                    1715–1727| 1830–  |        |Warbourg, 1760.
    The Queen’s Own Dragoons.|   1841.|        |Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
                    1727–1751| Blue,  |        |Germany, 1760–1763.
    7th, or Queen’s Own      | 1841--.|        |Valenciennes, 1793.
      Dragoons.     1751–1783|        |        |Cateau, 1794.
    7th, or Queen’s Own Light|        |        |Nimeguen, 1794.
      Dragoons.     1783–1805|        |        |Guildermalsen, 1795.
    7th, Queen’s Own Hussars.|        |        |Flanders, 1793–1795.
                     1805----|        |        |Bergen, 1799.
                             |        |        |Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
                             |        |        |Alkmaer, 1799.
                             |        |        |Sahagun, 1808.
                             |        |        |Corunna, 1809.
                             |        |        |Peninsula, 1808–1809.
                             |        |        |   Do.,    1813–1814.
                             |        |        |Waterloo, 1815.
                             |        |        |Netherlands, 1815.
                             |        |        |Lucknow, 1858.
                             |        |        |Indian Mutiny, 1858.
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

The Regiment was formed in Scotland from Independent Troops of
Dragoons; it was disbanded in 1713, but restored in 1715, and mainly
reformed from two troops of the present 1st Dragoons, and three troops
of the present 2nd Dragoons; it then received its title in honour of
the Prince of Wales’s wife.

It bears “the Royal Cypher within the Garter.”

It was nicknamed “the old saucy Seventh” in the Peninsula, also “the
lily-white Seventh” from its light-blue uniform and white facings, and
also “Young Eyes.”


                            EIGHTH HUSSARS.

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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

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