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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]
Two cavalry regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons: Duke of Cumberland's Regiment of Light Dragoons , raised in 1746 and disbanded in 1749 15th The King's Hussars , raised in 1759, redesignated a Hussar regiment in 1807
The Battle of Sahagún (21 December 1808) was a cavalry clash at Sahagún, Spain, in which the British 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars) defeated two regiments of French cavalry during the Corunna Campaign of the Peninsular War. [a] Losses to one of the French regiments were so heavy that it was subsequently disbanded. The action marked the final ...
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 15th Light Dragoons were accommodated there from 1792 to 1815 - a convenient base during the Napoleonic Wars. [ 11 ] By 1848 Cavalry Barracks had expanded and accommodated 7 officers, 114 NCOs and privates, and 90 horses.
With it he served at the Battle of Famars, the siege of Valenciennes, and the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, where a small force of the 15th Light Dragoons and Austrian hussars defeated a French corps. All the eight officers of the 15th present there were knighted, and received the Order of Maria Theresa from Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. In ...
The 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of the 15th The King's Hussars and the 19th Royal Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it was amalgamated with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars to form the Light Dragoons in 1992.
The Duke of Cumberland's Regiment of Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1746 and disbanded in 1749.. It was raised by the Duke of Cumberland in 1746, drawing most of its men from the recently disbanded Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse, and was ranked as the 15th Light Dragoons - the first regiment of the British Army to be classed as light dragoons.