The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged
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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged
Great Britain. Army
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| Colour of |
Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
|Uniform.|Facings.|
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Colonel Owen Wynne’s |Scarlet,| Buff, |Buenos Ayres, 1806.
Regiment of Dragoons. | 1715– | 1715– |Monte Video, 1807.
1715–1719| 1784.| 1812.|Flushing, 1809.
(Its Colonel’s name.) | Blue, |Crimson,|Peninsula, 1811–1813.
1719–1751| 1784– | 1812– |Punniar, 1843.
9th Dragoons. 1751–1783| 1831.| 1831.|Sobraon, 1846.
9th Light Dragoons. |Scarlet,| Blue, |Punjaub, 1848–1849.
1783–1816| 1831– | 1831– |Chillianwallah, 1849.
9th Lancers. 1816–1830| 1842.| 1842.|Goojerat, 1849.
9th, The Queen’s Royal | Blue, |Scarlet,|Delhi, 1857.
Lancers. 1830----| 1842--.| 1842--.|Lucknow, 1858.
| | |Indian Mutiny,
| | | 1857–1858.
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The Regiment was raised in the southern counties of England.
It received its title in 1830 in honour of Queen Adelaide.
It bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”
TENTH HUSSARS.
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| Colour of |
Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
|Uniform.|Facings.|
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Colonel Humphrey Gore’s |Scarlet,|Yellow, |Minden, 1759.
Regiment of Dragoons. | 1715– | 1715– |Warbourg, 1760.
1715–1723| 1783.| 1811.|Campen, 1760.
(Its Colonel’s name.) | Blue, |Scarlet,|Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
1723–1751| 1783--.| 1811– |Germany, 1758–1763.
10th Dragoons. 1751–1783| | 1819.|Sahagun, 1808.
10th, or Prince of Wale’s| | Blue, |Benevente, 1809.
Own Light Dragoons. | | 1819--.|Corunna, 1809.
1783–1806| | |Morales, 1813.
10th, or Prince of | | |Peninsula, 1808–1809.
Wales’s Own Hussars. | | | Do., 1813–1814.
1806–1811| | | Waterloo, 1815.
10th, The Prince of | | |Sevastopol, 1855.
Wales’s Own Royal | | |
Hussars. 1811----| | |
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The Regiment was raised in Hertfordshire and adjoining counties.
It received its title and badges of the Prince’s Plume, the Rising Sun,
and the Red Dragon, in 1783, in honour of the Prince of Wales.
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