SIXTH DRAGOONS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Sir Albert Cunningham’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1689–1691 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1691–1751 6th, or Inniskilling Dragoons. 1751—— | Scarlet, 1689—. | Yellow, 1689—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Roucoux, 1746. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1748. Minden, 1759. Warbourg, 1760. Campen, 1760. | Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1758–1763. Dunkirk, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Tournay, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Balaklava, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was originally part of the Inniskilling forces, from which it was formed.
It bears the “Castle of Inniskilling.”
It was known about 1715 as “The Black Dragoons,” probably from being mounted on black horses.