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

[To face page 116.

FOOTNOTES:

[7] Bibl. Harl. No. 1595.—Mercurius Publicus.—Kingdom's Intelligencer.—War-Office Records.—History of Tangier, &c.

[8] Bibl. Harl. 6844.

[9] History of Tangier, 8vo., 1664.

[10] Sir John Lanier was afterwards colonel of the Queen's horse, now first dragoon guards.

[11] John Coy was afterwards colonel of the seventh horse, now fifth dragoon guards.

[12] Thomas Langston was celebrated for taking the Princess Anne of Denmark's regiment of horse over to the Prince of Orange at the Revolution in 1688: he was appointed colonel of that regiment on the 31st of December, 1688, and died in Ireland in 1689: the regiment was disbanded in 1692.

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

[14] Narrative of the great engagement at Tangier: Tangier's Rescue, by John Ross; London Gazettes, &c. &c.