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The First (The King's) Dragoon Guards.
ОглавлениеThe Royal Cypher within the Garter.
TITLES.
1685–1714. The Queen's (or 2nd) Regiment of Horse.
1714–46. The King's Own Regiment of Horse.
1746 (from). The 1st King's Dragoon Guards.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1685. Sedgemoor.
1690. Boyne.
1691. Aughrim.
1692–97. Flanders.
1693. Neer Landen.
1695. Namur.
1702–14. Germany.
1702. Liége.
1703. Huy.
1704. Schellenberg.
*1704. Blenheim.
1705. Neer Hespen.
*1706. Ramilies.
*1708. Oudenarde.
1708. Lisle.
1709. Tournay.
*1709. Malplaquet.
1711. Bouchain.
1742–46. Flanders.
*1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1758–63. Germany.
1759. Minden.
1760. Corbach.
1760. Warbourg.
1761. Kirk Denkern.
1762. Wilhelmstahl.
1763. Grœbenstein.
1793–95. Flanders.
1794. Cateau.
1794. Tournay.
*1815. Waterloo.
1815. Netherlands.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1860. China.
*1860. Taku Forts.
*1860. Pekin.
*1879. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet (from 1685). Facings, Bright Yellow (the Stuart livery, 1685–1714); Blue Velvet (from 1714). Helmet-plume, Red.
Regimental Badge.—"The Royal Cypher within the Garter."
Nicknames.—"The Trades' Union" (because employed to quell trade riots in the middle of the present century); "The K. D. G.'s" (its initials).
Notes.—Raised chiefly near London during the Monmouth Rebellion, and designated "The Queen's Regiment of Horse," the then "King's Regiment" being "The Blues." Cuirasses were worn to 1698, and from 1704 to 1714. The title was changed in 1714 in recognition of brilliant services in Flanders and Germany.
Bibliography.—Historical Records of the 1st or King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards. From 1685 to 1836. Illustrated with plates. [London: Clowes, 1837.]
