In the spring of 1718 the regiment marched to Gloucester and Tewksbury: a reduction in the army took place, and in the autumn of this year, the Thirteenth Dragoons embarked at Liverpool for Ireland, to replace a regiment ordered to be disbanded in that country.
1719
1722
1725
The Thirteenth Dragoons were stationed in Ireland during the remainder of the reign of King George I., and also during the first fourteen years of the reign of King George II. Their colonel, Brigadier-General Munden, was removed, in 1722, to the eighth dragoons, and was succeeded by Brigadier-General Sir Robert Rich, Baronet, whose regiment of dragoons, raised in 1715, had been disbanded. On the decease of Brigadier-General Munden, in 1725, Sir Robert Rich was removed to the eighth dragoons, and was succeeded by Colonel William Stanhope, afterwards Earl of Harrington, who raised a regiment in 1715, which was disbanded in 1718.
1730
Lord Harrington was appointed Secretary of State, and the colonelcy of the Thirteenth Dragoons was conferred, on the 7th of July, 1730, on Colonel Henry Hawley, from the thirty-third foot.
1735
1739
1740
1741
Colonel Hawley was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1735, to that of major-general in 1739, and was removed to the Royal Dragoons in May, 1740, when he was succeeded by Colonel Robert Dalway, from the thirty-ninth foot. This officer died in November of the same year, and in January, 1741, King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the regiment on Colonel Humphrey Bland, from the thirty-sixth foot.
1742
In 1742 a British army was sent to Flanders, to support the house of Austria against the combined efforts of the King of France and the Elector of Bavaria, and the Thirteenth Dragoons were withdrawn from Ireland, and stationed in South Britain.
1743