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Charge of the 16th Lancers at the Battle of Aliwal, January 1846. The regiment was dispatched to Ireland in March 1816 where it was re-designated as a lancer regiment in September 1816, becoming the 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers). [1] It returned from Ireland in June 1819. [33]
King's American Dragoons; King's American Regiment (placed on American establishment, in 1781, as 4th American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1776–1783) King's Rangers; King's (Carolina) Rangers; King's Orange Rangers; King's Royal Regiment of New York; Kinloch's Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778)
He became a captain in the 16th Light Dragoons, a regiment which had been raised at his father's expense and was known as "Harcourt's Black Horse", on 27 October 1759. He transferred to the 3rd Dragoons on 30 June 1760 and was subsequently sent to Mecklenburg-Strelitz (with his father) to escort the consort-elect of King George III to England
16th Light Dragoons (200) Hessian and Anspach Jägers: Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Wurmb (500) Mounted Jäger company, Captain Richard Lorey (100) Artillery: 3rd Brigade Four 12-pound cannons & six 6-pound cannons; Lord Cornwallis. Guards Brigade: Brigadier General Edward Mathew (939) [4] [5]
Purchasing a cornetcy in the 16th Light Dragoons in 1773, Geary was sent to North America in 1776, arriving in New York at the end of September. In October and November, Geary's unit was mainly occupied with forays in northern New Jersey where they met little organized resistance, but on 1 December, his company was ordered to camp at Pennington ...
Queen's American Rangers: Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe: 454 British foot regiments each contained a company of light infantry, but during the American Revolutionary War these were detached to form the separate Light Infantry Battalion. [4] 16th Queen's Light Dragoons: Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt: 365 1st Battalion Light Infantry
Grey's troops included the 2nd Light Infantry, a composite battalion formed from the light companies of 13 regiments, plus the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment and 44th Regiment of Foot. A dozen troopers of the 16th Queen's Light Dragoons were in the vanguard of the main British column. Altogether, Grey's force numbered approximately 1,200 men.
The term 'Light Dragoons' has a much earlier history. The British Army experimented with light cavalry in the 1740s, prompted by the French creation of hussar regiments. . However, it was not until the 1750s that the British converted some dragoon regiments into light cavalry, these regiments being officially designated 'Light Dragoo