It captured the Standard and Kettle Drums of the Bavarian Guards at the battle of Ramilies.
FOURTH DRAGOON GUARDS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||
| Colonel the Duke of Hamilton’s Regiment of Horse. 1685–1688 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1788 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. 1788—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | White, 1685–1715. Light Blue, 1715–1768. Blue, 1768—. | Steenkirk 1692. Neer Landen 1693. Flanders 1691–1697. Peninsula 1811–1813. Balaklava 1854. Sevastopol 1855. |
The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in various English counties.
It wore cuirasses on its formation.
It bears the Harp and Crown, and the Star of the Order of St. Patrick, with the motto “Quis separabit.”
It received its title in 1788 for its long service in Ireland from 1698 to 1788, and was then commonly known as “The Blue Horse” from its facings.
FIFTH DRAGOON GUARDS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel the Duke of Shrewsbury’s Regiment of Horse. 1685–1687 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1687–1788 5th Dragoon Guards. 1788–1804 5th, or Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Dragoon Guards. 1804—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | Buff, 1685–1717. Green, 1717—. | Boyne, 1690. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Neer Hespen, 1705. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Malplaquet, 1709. Bouchain, 1711. Germany, 1703–1712. Germany, 1759–1762. | Cateau, 1794. Flanders, 1794–1795. Llereena, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1811–1814. Balaklava, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in various English counties.