The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

Great Britain. Army

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                             |    Colour of    |
             Titles.         +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c.
                             |Uniform.|Facings.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
    Colonel Phineas Bowles’s |Scarlet,| White, |Corsica, 1794.
      Regiment of Dragoons.  | 1715–  | 1715–  |Aboukir, 1801.
                    1715–1740|   1784.|   1768.|Mandora, 1801.
    (Its Colonel’s name.)    | Blue,  | Black, |Alexandria, 1801.
                    1740–1751| 1784–  | 1768–  |Egypt, 1801.
    12th Dragoons.  1751–1768|   1830.|   1784.|Llereena, 1812.
    12th, or Prince of       |Scarlet,|Yellow, |Peninsula, 1811–1814.
      Wales’s Light Dragoons.| 1830–  |  1784– |Waterloo, 1815.
                    1768–1816|   1842.|   1817.|Netherlands, 1815.
                             |Blue,   |Scarlet,|Cape of Good Hope, 1852.
    12th, or Prince of       | 1842--.|  1817– |Sevastopol, 1855.
      Wales’s Lancers.       |        |   1830.|Central India, 1858.
          1816–1817          |        |Blue,   |Indian Mutiny, 1858.
    12th, Prince of Wales’s  |        | 1830–  |
      Royal Lancers.         |        |  1842. |
                     1817----|        |Scarlet,|
                             |        | 1842--.|
    -------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------

The Regiment was raised in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire.

It received its title and badges of the Prince’s Plume, the Rising Sun,
and the Red Dragon, in 1768, in honour of the Prince of Wales.

It bears “the Sphinx” for Egypt 1801, where it captured a French convoy
with Colours.

It has been nicknamed “the Supple Twelfth.”


                          THIRTEENTH HUSSARS.

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The regiments of the British Army, chronologically arranged

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