Historical Record of the Third, Or the King's Own Regiment of Light Dragoons / Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846.

by Richard Cannon

FOOTNOTES:

[10] The Third, ranked as Second Dragoons; the Fourth as Third; and the Second as Fourth; until the peace of Utrecht, when the claim of the Greys to precedence was submitted to a board of general officers and admitted.—See the Historical Record of the Scots Greys.

[11] Major Wood rose to the rank of lieut.-general. See a memoir of this distinguished officer in the record of the third dragoon guards.

[12] The account of the services of the regiment in Ireland has been taken from the Official Records—London Gazettes—Accounts published by authority in 1690, and 1691—State of Europe—Story's History of the War in Ireland—Harris' Life of King William III.—and Boyer's Life of King William III.

[13] D'Auvergne's History of the Campaign in Flanders.

[14] Colonel Lloyd being sick at Brussels and the Lieutenant-Colonel on leave of absence.

[15] The original embarkation return, signed by the Colonel of the regiment, is among the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum, No. 7025.

[16] Annals of Queen Anne, page 93.

[17] Bibl. Harl. 7025.

[18] In Lodge's Peerage of Ireland it is stated that Brigadier-General Carpenter gave 1800 guineas for the colonelcy of the Queen's dragoons.