CONTENTS.


YearPage
1715Formation of the Regiment[9]
——Names of Officer[10]
——Rebellion of the Earl of Mar[11]
1718The Regiment embarks for Ireland
1751Description of the Uniform and Guidons[13]
1768Styled the Prince of Wales's Regiment[15]
——Constituted a corps of Light Dragoons[16]
1784Uniform changed from Scarlet to Blue
1793Embarks for the Mediterranean[17]
——Capture of the Island of Corsica[18]
1794Stationed in Italy—Approbation of Pope Pius VI.
1795Embarks for England[20]
1796Proceeds to Portugal
1800Embarks for the Mediterranean[21]
1801Lands in Egypt[22]
——Battle of Alexandria
——Capture of a French Convoy in the Lybian Desert[25]
—————— Cairo and Alexandria[27]
1802Returns to England[28]
——Embarks for Ireland[29]
1805Returns to England
1809Expedition to Walcheren
——Returns to England[30]
1811 Embarks for Portugal
——Blockade of Ciudad Rodrigo
1812Covering the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo[31]
——————————— Badajoz
——Skirmish at Usagre—Action at Llerena[32]
——Action at Castrejon[34]
——Battle of Salamanca[35]
——Covering the Siege of Burgos-Castle[37]
——Skirmishes at Monasterio
——Covering the Retreat at Burgos
1813Battle of Vittoria[39]
——Skirmishes at Villa Franca and Tolosa[40]
——Covering the Siege of St. Sebastian[41]
——Passage of the Bidassoa[42]
——Battle of the Nivelle
1814Passage of the Adour—Blockade of Bayonne[43]
——Marches to Bordeaux—Skirmish at Etoliers[44]
——Returns to England
1815Embarks for Flanders[46]
——Battle of Quatre Bras[47]
——Battle of Waterloo[48]
——Names of the Officers who received Medals[58]
——Advances to Paris
——Forms part of the Army of Occupation in France[59]
——Constituted a corps of "Lancers"
1817Rewarded with the title of the Twelfth, or Prince of Wales's, Royal Lancers
1818Returns to England[60]
1820Embarks for Ireland[61]
1824Returns to England
1826Embarks for Portugal[63]
1828 Returns to England[64]
1829Proceeds to Scotland
1830Embarks for Ireland
——Resumes wearing Scarlet Clothing
1833Returns to England
1837Reviewed by the Queen, Victoria[65]
1838Her Majesty's Coronation[66]
1839His Royal Highness the Prince George of Cambridge attached to the Regiment
1840Embarks for Ireland[67]
1842Resumes wearing Blue Clothing
——The Conclusion[68]

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.

1715Phineas Bowles[69]
1719Phineas Bowles[70]
1740Alexander Rose
1743Samuel Walter Whitshed
1746Thomas Bligh[71]
1747Sir John Mordaunt, K.B.[72]
1749Honorable James Cholmondeley[73]
1749Lord George Sackville[74]
1750Sir John Whitefoord, Baronet[75]
1763Edward Harvey[76]
1764Benjamin Carpenter[77]
1770William Augustus Pitt
1775Honorable William Keppel[78]
1782Honorable George Lane Parker[79]
1791 Sir James Steuart, Baronet[79]
1815Sir William Payne, Baronet[81]
1825Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B., K.C.H.[82]
1827Sir R. H. Vivian, Baronet, now Lord Vivian, K.C.B., G.C.H.[84]
1837Sir H. J. Cumming, K.C.H.

Twelfth, The Prince of Wales's Royal Lancers.