During the summer of this year an attack of the enemy on New York was apprehended, and General Sir Henry Clinton, in a letter to Lord Cornwallis, dated the 11th of June, 1781, requested that some of the troops, and, among others, the remaining officers and men of the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, should be sent back to New York.
1782
Lieut.-General George Preston was removed on the 18th of April, 1782, to the Scots Greys, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the Seventeenth by General the Honourable Thomas Gage, from the Twenty-second Foot.
1783
His Majesty having been induced to concede the independence of the United States, the war was terminated by a treaty of peace, and in 1783 the Seventeenth Light Dragoons embarked from New York, and returned to Ireland, where the regiment was stationed during the succeeding eleven years.
1784
In 1784 the colour of the clothing was changed from scarlet to blue.
1785
On the 4th of February, 1785, General Gage was removed to the Eleventh Dragoons, and His Majesty conferred the colonelcy of the Seventeenth on Colonel Thomas, Earl of Lincoln, from the half-pay of the Seventy-fifth Foot, which corps was disbanded in 1783.
1794