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    ISBN 978-8131300343. 19th Light Dragoons in the War of 1812 Uniforms of the 19th Light Dragoons 19th Light Dragoons at FIBIS 19th Light Dragoons re-enactment...
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  • converted some dragoon regiments into light cavalry, these regiments being officially designated 'Light Dragoons'. All British light cavalry regiments...
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  • on 1 November 1954 as 19th Alberta Dragoons (19th Armoured Car Regiment). Redesignated on 19 May 1958 as the 19th Alberta Dragoons. Reduced to nil strength...
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  • —Honywood's or Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons 1732 Lord Mark Kerr — Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons 11th Regiment of Dragoons (1751) A royal warrant provided that...
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    regiments designated as dragoons: 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Royal Dragoon Guards, and the Light Dragoons. These perform a...
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    (The Queen's) Light Dragoons 17th Light Dragoons 18th Light Dragoons 19th Light Dragoons 1st Regiment of Foot Guards - 4 Battalion from 1803-1804, than...
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    Robert Rollo Gillespie (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    performing many feats of strength. In 1792 he transferred to the 20th Light Dragoons with the rank of lieutenant and soon embarked with his new regiment...
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    Shezada Hyder Ali (category 19th-century Indian Muslims)
    and alerted the garrison in Arcot. Nine hours later, the British 19th Light Dragoons, led by Colonel Rollo Gillespie, and the Madras Cavalry recaptured...
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  • Regiment of (Light) Dragoons by Sir John Burgoyne, Bt. at Bedford but renumbered in 1786 as the 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons. It was re-raised in...
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    23rd Light Dragoons and the 73rd and 78th Foot, survived the post-war reductions in the Army. The 23rd Light Dragoons (later the 19th Light Dragoons) served...
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    regiment to still carry the battle honour. The Light Dragoons, as the descendant of the 19th Light Dragoons, the only British cavalry regiment present, are...
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  • become part of SALH were four cavalry regiments – 15th Light Horse in Calgary, 19th Alberta Dragoons in Edmonton, 21st Alberta Hussars in Medicine Hat and...
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    Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    cavalry regiment for duty in India called the 23rd Light Dragoons, and later renamed the 19th Light Dragoons. He was commissioned Colonel on 18 November 1790...
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    cavalry from the 19th Light Dragoons and two battalions of Scottish infantry from the 74th and 78th Regiment of Foot. Irregular light cavalry were also...
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  • Gilbert East Jolliffe (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    Gilbert East Jolliffe was MP for Petersfield in 1830–31. Jolliffe was the eldest son of the Reverend William John Jolliffe and his wife Julia née Pytches...
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  • (Light) Dragoons -> Lancers from 30 September 1816 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons -> Lancers from 30 September 1816 Sources 18th Regiment of (Light)...
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  • Robert Torrens (British Army officer) (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Thomas Torrens CB (1780 – May 1840) was a British Army officer. He served with distinction at the Battle of Waterloo receiving...
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    hussars as the 19th Hussars. At this time, the regiment was authorised to inherit the battle honours of the disbanded 19th Light Dragoons. John French,...
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  • 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...
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    as Elliots Light Horse as the first of the new regiments of light dragoons in 1759. It was renamed the 15th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1760. The...
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  • Duncan Davidson (Cromartyshire MP, born 1800) (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    Duncan Davidson of Tulloch FRSE (1800 – 18 September 1881) was a Scottish landowner, soldier and politician. He was the first son of Caroline Elizabeth...
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    Regiment of Dragoons (1804–1812, red jacket) changed into: 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons (1812–1816, blue jacket) 2nd Regiment of Dragoons (1805–1812...
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    Council. His colonelcy was transferred from the 23rd Fusiliers to the 19th Light Dragoons in 1786. He resumed limited active duty in 1789, when a crisis with...
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    the outbreak of the mutiny, a relief force comprising the British 19th Light Dragoons, galloper guns and a squadron of the 3rd Regiment of Madras Native...
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    Ormsby Vandeleur (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    colonelcy of the 19th Light Dragoons on 12 January 1815. He commanded the 4th Cavalry Brigade, consisting of the 11th, 12th, and 16th light dragoons, at the Battle...
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  • Adolphus Dalrymple (category 19th Light Dragoons officers)
    promotions as a major in the 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot and the 19th Light Dragoons and as a lieutenant colonel in the 60th (Royal American) Regiment...
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    troops were regimented to form The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, numbered the 4th Dragoons in 1694. They were already mounted on grey horses by this...
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    the 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1759; it was also known as Drogheda's Light Horse. It was renumbered the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in...
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    regiments of Dragoon Guards, plus six of Dragoons and fourteen of Light Dragoons. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the seven regiments of Dragoon Guards...
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  • the British Indian Army 19th Alberta Dragoons, a unit of the Canadian Army 19th Light Dragoons, a unit of the British Army 19th Royal Hussars, a unit of...
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