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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HOME SERVIC E. In the reign of Queen Anne scarlet was definitively established as the uniform of the British Army. After their return to England the regiment was dispersed in various quarters in Yorkshire, and the establishment was fixed at twenty-seven officers, six quartermasters, and 326 officers and men. In the summer of 1713 a detachment proceeded to Dover, there to receive a draft of 200 horses from Ker's Dragoons, that corps being ordered to Ireland dismounted, and there to be disbanded. Queen Anne died on the 1st of August, 1714, when the Royal Dragoons left Yorkshire for the neighbourhood of London; but after the arrival of King George I. from Hanover they returned to the North, when a reduction of eighty men was made in the etablishment.1 By a Royal warrant of 3rd of February, 1715, addressed to Colonel William Ker, it was ordered that 1 Marching Order Books and Establishment Books in the War Office. 1715.] THE REBELLION OF 1715 IN SCOTLAND. 77 two troops of the Royal Dragoons, three of the Scots Greys, and one newly-raised troop of Dragoons, should be formed into a regiment and reconstructed as Ker's Dragoons, which had been disbanded in 1713, retaining its former rank and standing in the Army. It was at the same time styled The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment. The two junior troops of the Royal Dragoons thus transferred were commanded by Captains Lewis Dalton and Peter Renouard, and the regiment thus raised has become the present 7th, or Queen's Own Hussars. Colonel the Honourable William Ker, third son of Robert, third Earl of Roxburgh, died a Lieutenant- General in the army on the 7th of January, 1741. The establishment of the regiment was thus reduced to six troops, and on the 13th of June this year the colone...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217485906
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217485901
  • Publisher Date: 13 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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