TWELFTH LANCERS.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Phineas Bowles’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1740
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1740–1751
12th Dragoons. 1751–1768
12th, or Prince of Wales’s Light Dragoons. 1768–1816
12th, or Prince of Wales’s Lancers. 1816–1817
12th, Prince of Wales’s Royal Lancers. 1817——		Scarlet, 1715–1784.
Blue, 1784–1830.
Scarlet, 1830–1842.
Blue, 1842—.		White, 1715–1768.
Black, 1768–1784.
Yellow, 1784–1817.
Scarlet, 1817–1830.
Blue, 1830–1842.
Scarlet, 1842—.		Corsica, 1794.
Aboukir, 1801.
Mandora, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Egypt, 1801.
Llereena, 1812.
Peninsula, 1811–1814.		Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 1815.
Cape of Good Hope, 1852.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Central India, 1858.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.

The Regiment was raised in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire.

It received its title and badges of the Prince’s Plume, the Rising Sun, and the Red Dragon, in 1768, in honour of the Prince of Wales.

It bears “the Sphinx” for Egypt 1801, where it captured a French convoy with Colours.

It has been nicknamed “the Supple Twelfth.”