| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Richard Munden’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1722 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1722–1751 13th Dragoons. 1751–1782 13th Light Dragoons. 1782–1861 13th Hussars. 1861—— | Scarlet, 1715–1784. Blue, 1784–1832. Scarlet, 1832–1840. Blue, 1840—. | Green, 1715–1784. Buff, 1784–1836. Green, 1836–1840. Buff, 1840–1861. White, 1861—. | Campo Mayor, 1811. Albuera, 1811. Arroyo dos Molinos, 1811. Badajos, 1812. Orthes, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. | Peninsula, 1810–1814. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Alma, 1854. Balaklava, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised in the mid=land counties of England.
It has borne the motto “Viret in Æternum” from its formation.
It was commonly known in the eighteenth century as “the Green Dragoons” from its facings; and was nicknamed in the Peninsula war “the Ragged Brigade” from its caring more for work than show, for during the war it served in thirty-two affairs besid=es general actions, and lost 274 men and 1009 horses.
FOURTEENTH HUSSARS.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel James Dormer’s Regiment of Dragoons. 1715–1720 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1720–1751 14th Dragoons. 1751–1776 14th Light Dragoons. 1776–1798 14th, or Duchess of York’s Own Light Dragoons. 1798–1830 14th, or King’s Light Dragoons 1830–1861 14th, The King’s Hussars. 1861—— | Scarlet, 1715–1784. Blue, 1784–1830. Scarlet, 1830–1842. Blue, 1842—. | Yellow, 1715–1798. Orange, 1798–1830. Blue, 1830–1842. Scarlet, 1842–1861. Blue, 1861—. | Flanders, 1794–1795. Douro, 1809. Talavera, 1809. Fuentes-d’Onor, 1811. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1808–1814. | New Orleans, 1815. Punjaub, 1848–1849. Chillianwallah, 1849. Goojerat, 1849. Persia, 1856. Central India, 1858. Indian Mutiny, 1858. |
The Regiment was raised in the south of England.
It received its title and badge of “the Prussian Eagle” in 1798 in honour of the Princess Royal of Prussia, also its facings, orange being the Brandenburg colour.
It also bears the “Royal Cypher within the Garter.”