Why not follow the story of The Queen’s Royal Hussars from its beginning in 1685 up until the present day by using the timeline:
We are all familiar with the early successes of the Jacobite rising of 1745, the victory of Prestonpans, the capture of Carlisle and the arrival at Derby on Black Friday, the 4th of December. As Carlisle had resisted, so London would resist even more strongly. The Scots dared not besiege…
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The Battle of Clifton Moor With a shortage of troops in England, the second Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 called some regiments home, including The King’s Own, who were sent North to fight at Culloden in 1746. The battle at Clifton took place between a rearguard of Prince Charles Edward Stewart's…
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Lauffeld, 2 July 1747 Another battle in which the Regiment distinguished itself during the War of the Austrian Succession was at Lauffeld, near Maastricht in Belgium. The famous Marshal Saxe commanded the French and was opposed by an army composed of British, Dutch and Austrians under the Duke of Cumberland,…
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Home Service In 1748 Rich's Dragoons returned home for sixty years of quiet home service. The names of regiments were enumerated in 1751 thus Rich’s became the 4th Dragoons. Their coats remained scarlet and their waistcoats and breeches were to be green. The civil order which erupted into the Gordon…
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Seven Years' War 1756-63 When the Seven Years' War began in 1756, the 7th took part in the June 1758 Raid on St Malo, at which 100 enemy vessels were burned, the Raid on Cherbourg in August 1758 and the Battle of Warburg in July 1760. Raid on St Malo…
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Home Service In February 1763, the regiment returned home from Germany. In that same year, the Light Troop of the 7th was disbanded. From 1763 to 1793, thirty years, the Queen's Own continued on home service. On April 9th, 1764, the regiment was reviewed in Hyde Park by King George…
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The Gordon Riots Conditions in cities in Britain in the second half of the 18th century were unsanitary and overcrowded. High taxes, unjust and repressive laws, government profiteering and impressiveness in the army and navy were among the issues that inflamed the working classes and bred discontent. Civil disorder bubbled…
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The Gordon Riots - 1780 The 4th Light Dragoons were stationed in Canterbury when the Gordon Riots broke out in the summer of 1780. The riots caused considerable panic and for a few days, London was in peril. Lord George Gordon was the president of the "Protestant Association" an organisation…
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The Netherlands After the French Revolution, Britain was at war with her old enemy again in the Netherlands. Beaumont 26 April 1794 The 7th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons were heavily involved in this battle that took place during the siege of Landrecies, in the war against the Revolutionary Army of…
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Bousbecque 18 May 1794 The 8th Light Dragoons were part of the initial expeditionary force sent to the continent to fight as an ally of the Hanoverians and the Austrians against the French Revolutionary armies of Napoleon. The 8th Light Dragoons arrived at Ostend from Bristol in late April 1794.…
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