THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel the Earl of Plymouth’s Regiment of Horse. 1685–1687
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1687–1746
3rd Dragoon Guards. 1746–1765
3rd, or Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards. 1765——		Scarlet, 1685—.Green, 1685–1765.
White, 1765, and in 1785.
Blue in 1818–1819.
Yellow, 1819—.		Steenkirk, 1692.
Neer-Landen, 1693.
Flanders, 1691–1697.
Schellenberg, 1704.
Blenheim, 1704.
Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Ramilies, 1706.
Oudenarde, 1708.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Bouchain, 1711.
Germany, 1702–1714.
Minden, 1759.
Corbach, 1760.		Warbourg, 1760.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1758–1763.
Dunkirk, 1793.
Cateau, 1794.
Tournay, 1794.
Flanders, 1793–1795.
Talavera, 1809.
Albuera, 1811.
Vittoria, 1813.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Abyssinia, 1868.

The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in various English counties.

It wore cuirasses for three years, and again from 1704 to 1714.

It bears the Plume of the Prince of Wales, the Rising Sun, and the Red Dragon.

It is not known when its facings were changed to Blue.

It captured the Standard and Kettle Drums of the Bavarian Guards at the battle of Ramilies.