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2. British light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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   These new units proved so useful in the Seven Years' War, that in 1763 the 15th Dragoons were converted into 'light dragoons', as were the 17th–20th. By 1798 this arm had increased to some 23 regiments: the 7th–14th Dragoons had been converted, and 15 new regiments had been raised and retained in service.

3. Light Dragoons - Wikipedia

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   The Light Dragoons (LD) is a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment has a light cavalry role and specialises in mounted and dismounted reconnaissance . The Light Dragoons recruit mainly in Northern England, from County Durham , Northumberland , Tyne and Wear , South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire .

4. Category : Light dragoon regiments of the British Army

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   1st Regiment of Light Dragoons (King's German Legion) 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons (King's German Legion) 3rd Light Dragoons; 4th Light Dragoons; 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (1759) 19th Light Dragoons; 20th Light Dragoons; 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons; 24th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons; 28th Light Dragoons; 30th Light Dragoons; 31st ...

5. 12th Royal Lancers - Wikipedia

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   In 1816, the 12th Light Dragoons was armed with lances after the cavalry of Napoleon's Army had shown their effectiveness at Waterloo and were re-titled 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers). [1] In 1855, it reinforced the Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea after the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of ...

6. 13th Hussars - Wikipedia

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   The 13th Hussars (previously the 13th Light Dragoons) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army established in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the Napoleonic Wars , the Crimean War and the First World War but then amalgamated with the 18th Royal Hussars , to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922.

7. 18th Royal Hussars - Wikipedia

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   The regiment was reformed in Leeds in 1858, as the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons from a nucleus taken from the 15th Hussars, [1] and was renamed the 18th Hussars in 1861. [ 1 ] The 18th Hussars commemorated those who died while the Unit was at Mhow from 1889 to 1891 and during their March to Umballa with this plaque, installed inside Christ ...

8. 15th The King's Hussars - Wikipedia

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   A 1760 painting of a private of the 15th Light Dragoons by David Morier 15th Kings Light Dragoon button . The regiment was raised in the London area by George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield as Elliots Light Horse as the first of the new regiments of light dragoons in 1759. [2] It was renamed the 15th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1760. [2]

9. 4th Queen's Own Hussars - Wikipedia

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   Lieutenant-Colonel George Paget, 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, Dublin 1850, who commanded the regiment during the Crimean War (Michael Angelo Hayes, 1850). The regiment was first raised by the Hon. John Berkeley as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons in 1685, as part of the response to the Monmouth Rebellion by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as ...