| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Sir Albert Cunningham’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1689–1691 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1691–1751 6th, or Inniskilling Dragoons. 1751—— | Scarlet, 1689—. | Yellow, 1689—. | Boyne, 1690. Aughrim, 1691. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Roucoux, 1746. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1748. Minden, 1759. Warbourg, 1760. Campen, 1760. | Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1758–1763. Dunkirk, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Tournay, 1794. Flanders, 1793–1795. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Balaklava, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was originally part of the Inniskilling forces, from which it was formed.
It bears the “Castle of Inniskilling.”
It was known about 1715 as “The Black Dragoons,” probably from being mounted on black horses.
SEVENTH HUSSARS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Robert Cunningham’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1690–1696 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1696–1715 The Princess of Wales’s Own Royal Dragoons. 1715–1727 The Queen’s Own Dragoons. 1727–1751 7th, or Queen’s Own Dragoons. 1751–1783 7th, or Queen’s Own Light Dragoons. 1783–1805 7th, Queen’s Own Hussars. 1805—— | Scarlet, 1690–1784. Blue, 1784–1830. Scarlet, 1830–1841. Blue, 1841—. | White, 1690–1818. Blue, 1818—. | Flanders, 1694–1697. Germany, 1711–1713. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Roucoux, 1746. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1749. Warbourg, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, 1762. Germany, 1760–1763. Valenciennes, 1793. Cateau, 1794. Nimeguen, 1794. | Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1793–1795. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Sahagun, 1808. Corunna, 1809. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Do., 1813–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Lucknow, 1858. Indian Mutiny, 1858. |
The Regiment was formed in Scotland from Independent Troops of Dragoons; it was disbanded in 1713, but restored in 1715, and mainly reformed from two troops of the present 1st Dragoons, and three troops of the present 2nd Dragoons; it then received its title in honour of the Prince of Wales’s wife.
It bears “the Royal Cypher within the Garter.”
It was nicknamed “the old saucy Seventh” in the Peninsula, also “the lily-white Seventh” from its light-blue uniform and white facings, and also “Young Eyes.”