FOURTEENTH HUSSARS.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel James Dormer’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1720
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1720–1751
14th Dragoons. 1751–1776
14th Light Dragoons. 1776–1798
14th, or Duchess of York’s Own Light Dragoons. 1798–1830
14th, or King’s Light Dragoons 1830–1861
14th, The King’s Hussars. 1861——		Scarlet, 1715–1784.
Blue, 1784–1830.
Scarlet, 1830–1842.
Blue, 1842—.		Yellow, 1715–1798.
Orange, 1798–1830.
Blue, 1830–1842.
Scarlet, 1842–1861.
Blue, 1861—.		Flanders, 1794–1795.
Douro, 1809.
Talavera, 1809.
Fuentes-d’Onor, 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1808–1814.		New Orleans, 1815.
Punjaub, 1848–1849.
Chillianwallah, 1849.
Goojerat, 1849.
Persia, 1856.
Central India, 1858.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.

The Regiment was raised in the south of England.

It received its title and badge of “the Prussian Eagle” in 1798 in honour of the Princess Royal of Prussia, also its facings, orange being the Brandenburg colour.

It also bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”