--------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- East India Company’s 1st | Blue, | Blue, | Bengal European Cavalry.|1858--. |1858--. | 1858 | | | 1st Bengal European | | | Cavalry. 1858–1861 | | | 19th Hussars. 1861---- | | | --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- It was nicknamed “the Dumpies” when raised, from the diminutive size of the men. The first 19th Dragoons was raised in 1759, renumbered 18th in 1763, and disbanded in 1822. The second was raised from the Light Troops of the 1st and 2nd Dragoon Guards, 4th and 10th Dragoons in 1779. Its uniform was scarlet with green facings; it was disbanded in 1783. The third was raised as the 23rd Dragoons in 1781, and renumbered 19th in 1783; it served at the battles of Assaye (for its conduct at which it was presented with honorary standards by the East India Company), Seringapatam, Niagara, &c. It bore the Elephant as its crest; its uniform when raised was scarlet, but in 1815 was blue with yellow facings. It was disbanded as the 19th Lancers in 1821. TWENTIETH HUSSARS. --------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- East India Company’s 2nd | Blue, | Blue, | Bengal European Cavalry.|1858--. |1858--. | 1858 | | | 2nd Bengal European | | | Cavalry. 1858–1861 | | | 20th Hussars. 1861---- | | | --------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The first 20th Dragoons was raised in Ireland in 1759 as the “20th Inniskilling Light Dragoons.” Its uniform was scarlet with black facings; it was disbanded in 1763. The second was raised from the Light Troops of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1st, 6th, and 11th Dragoons, in 1779. Its uniform was scarlet with yellow facings; it was disbanded in 1783. The third was raised as “the Jamaica Light Horse” in 1791, made 20th Light Dragoons in 1794; it served in Egypt in 1807, and during the Peninsula war at Vimiero, &c. Its uniform when raised was blue with yellow facings, which were afterwards changed to orange; it was disbanded in 1818. TWENTY-FIRST HUSSARS.