Historical Record of the First, or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons / Containing an Account of Its Formation in the Reign of King Charles the Second, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1839

by Richard Cannon

FOOTNOTES:

[68] Vide the Historical Record of the Life Guards.

[69] Vide [page 51] in the 'Historical Record of the Royal Dragoons.'

HISTORICAL RECORDS

OF THE

BRITISH ARMY.

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UNDER THE SPECIAL AUTHORITY, AND BY COMMAND, OF

HIS LATE MAJESTY,

WHICH HAVE RECEIVED THE GRACIOUS APPROBATION AND PATRONAGE OF

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

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CAVALRY.			INFANTRY.
———			———
Of the	Life Guards	12s.		Of the	First, or Royal Regiment of Foot	12s.
"	Royal Horse Guards, or Blues	10s.		"	Second, or Queen's Foot	8s.
"	First, or King's Dragoon Guards	8s.		"	Third Foot, or the Buffs	12s.
"	Second, or Queen's ditto	8s.		"	Fourth Foot, or the King's Own.	8s.
"	Third Dragoon Guards	8s.		"	Fifth, or Northumberland Fusiliers	8s.
"	Fourth ditto	8s.		"	Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire	8s.
"	Fifth ditto	8s.		"	Eighty-eighth, or Connaught Rangers	6s.
"	Sixth ditto	8s.
"	Seventh ditto	8s.

EACH ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.

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The above are Parts of a Series of Narratives of the several Regiments of the British Army, from the Periods of their Formation to the present time.

Which are being prepared by

RICHARD CANNON, Esq.,

Adjutant-General's Office, Horse-Guards.

1840.

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PUBLISHED BY
Longman, Orme, and Co. Paternoster-row.		Pinkney, Military Library, Whitehall.
Clowes and Sons, 14, Charing-cross.		Milliken and Son, Dublin.
Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly.		Savage and Son, Cork.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Some pages at the front of the book have identical numbering, pages i to viii and then v to viii. This has not been changed.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, War Office, War-Office; field marshal, field-marshal; outpost, out-post; situate; patrole; rencounter; piquet; negociating.

[Pg 94], 'St. Jao de Presquere' should really be 'São João da Pesqueira' but has not been changed in the etext.
[Pg 99] et seq., the old name 'Pampeluna' (Pamplona) has not been changed in the etext.
[Pg 110], Sidenote '1816' moved one paragraph lower.
[Pg 119], 'royal fusileers' replaced by 'royal fusiliers'.
[Pg 125], 'Duke of Malborough' replaced by 'Duke of Marlborough'.