Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards

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Cannon Richard. Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards

Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

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HISTORICAL RECORD. OF. THE THIRD, OR. PRINCE OF WALES' REGIMENT. OF. DRAGOON GUARDS

HISTORICAL RECORD

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SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

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Richard Cannon

Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838

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"Each Horseman to have for his defensive armes, back, breast, and pot; and for his offensive armes, a sword, and a case of pistolls, the barrels whereof are not to be undr. foorteen inches in length; and each Trooper of Our Guards to have a carbine, besides the aforesaid armes. And the Foote to have each souldier a sword, and each pikeman a pike of 16 foote long and not undr.; and each musqueteer a musquet, with a collar of bandaliers, the barrels of which musquet to be about foor foote long, and to conteine a bullet, foorteen of which shall weigh a pound weight[2]."

The ranks of the Troops of Horse were at this period composed of men of some property—generally the sons of substantial yeomen: the young men received as recruits provided their own horses, and they were placed on a rate of pay sufficient to give them a respectable station in society.

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