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All British light cavalry regiments (numbered 7th and upwards) were titled Light Dragoons until 1806–1807, when four were re-classified as 'Hussars'. From 1816 more Light Dragoon regiments were reclassified as lancers or hussars , a tendency that continued [ 3 ] until the 13th Light Dragoons became the 13th Hussars in 1861.
Uniform of the 14th Light Dragoons, 1847 Carte-de-Visite of a lieutenant in the 14th (King's) Hussars. Maull & Co. Studios, London, 1867. The regiment was renamed in July 1830, to mark the coronation of William IV as the 14th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, [2] and it took part in the suppression of the Bristol riots in October 1831. [30]
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.
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.
The regiment was raised by Colonel William Loftus [1] and commissioned on 20 March 1794 as the 24th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, [2] which was sworn in at Netley Camp, near Southampton. On 1 October, Colonel Loftus was commissioned as the colonel of the regiment, [ 3 ] moving his headquarters to Blandford in Dorset in the same month, billeting ...
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The RoLD (1798) was formed on July 16, 1798, at the peak of the XYZ Affair and the upcoming Quasi-war with France.. The RoLD (1808) was established on April 12, 1808, following the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, when an Act of Congress passed legislation authorizing an increase in the size of the U.S. Army, to include a regiment of dragoons.
In late 2013, with the phasing out of CVR(T) across the British Army, the regiment was re-equipped with the Land Rover Defender-based RWMIK, a light armoured vehicle, equipped with the General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and the Browning .50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), as well as individual BOWMAN digital battlefield communications systems and ...