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.|
-------------------------+--------+--------+-----------------------
Colonel Richard Munden’s |Scarlet,| Green, |Campo Mayor, 1811.
Regiment of Dragoons. | 1715– | 1715– |Albuera, 1811.
1715–1722| 1784.| 1784.|Arroyo dos Molinos,
| | | 1811.
(Its Colonel’s name.) | Blue, | Buff, |Badajos, 1812.
1722–1751| 1784– | 1784– |Orthes, 1814.
13th Dragoons. 1751–1782| 1832.| 1836.|Toulouse, 1814.
13th Light Dragoons. |Scarlet,| Green, |Peninsula, 1810–1814.
1782–1861| 1832– | 1836– |Waterloo, 1815.
13th Hussars. 1861----| 1840.| 1840.|Netherlands, 1815.
| Blue, | Buff, |Alma, 1854.
| 1840--.| 1840– |Balaklava, 1854.
| | 1861.|Inkerman, 1854.
| | White, |Sevastopol, 1855.
| | 1861--.|
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The Regiment was raised in the midland counties of England.
It has borne the motto “Viret in Æternum” from its formation.
It was commonly known in the eighteenth century as “the Green Dragoons”
from its facings; and was nicknamed in the Peninsula war “the Ragged
Brigade” from its caring more for work than show, for during the war it
served in thirty-two affairs besides general actions, and lost 274 men
and 1009 horses.
FOURTEENTH HUSSARS.
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