Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated 23.09.2005
1715-1922
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1715.07.22 Richard Munden's Regiment of Dragoons
raised in the Midlands
1715 Jacobite rebellion (England)
1716 England
  1718 Ireland
  1742 England
1745 Jacobite rebellion (Scotland)
  1746? England?
  1748 Ireland
1751.07.01 13th Regiment of Dragoons
  1751 Ireland
1783 13th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1795 England
  1795.07.18 Jamaica (6 troops?)  
  1795.07 Maroon war  
  1796? San Domingo
  1796 Barbados  
  1803? England: Sandwich & Ramsgate
  1810.02 at sea  
  1810.02 Portugal: Lisbon  
  1810.02 Peninsular war
  1814.05 France
  1814.07 at sea (embarked at Boulogne)  
  1814.07.07 England: Ramsgate
  1814 England  
  1815.05 at sea
  1815.05 Belgium  
1815.05 Waterloo campaign 7 Cav Bde
1815.07 France: Paris Army of Occupation
  1816.05 at sea (embarked at Calais)
  1816.05.13 England: Dover
  1816 England  
  1819.02.09 at sea
  1819.06.13 India: Madras (Fort St. George)
  1819.07.19 Arcot  
  1820.02.19 Bangalore  
  1826.07.15 Arcot  
  1828.03.04 Arnee  
  1829.04.08 Bangalore suppressed mutiny 28 Oct. 1832
  1839.08 Kurnool & Zarapore rebellion
  1839.11.28 Bangalore  
  1840.02 at sea (embarked at Madras)
  1840.05 England: Gravesend
  1854.05.12 at sea ships: Harbinger, Negotiator, Calliope, Cullodon, and the Mary Anne
  1854.06.02 Bulgaria: Varna
  1854.09.01 at sea ships: Jason, Simla
  1854.09.14 Crimea: Kalmatia Bay
  1854.06 Crimea Light Bde
  1855.11.29 at sea (embarked at Eupatoria)
  1855.11 Turkey: Scutari
  1856.05.01 at sea (embarked at Constantinople) ship: Assistance
  1856.05.26 England: Portsmouth
  1856.05.26 at sea
  1856.05.30 Ireland: Queenstown
  1859 Scotland
  1861 England  
1861.08.04 13th Hussars
  1866.09.11 at sea (embarked at Liverpool) ships: Tarifa, Europa, Damascus
  1866.10 Canada: Toronto & Montreal  
1866 Canada
  1868.07.01 at sea ship: Germany
  1869.07 England
  1874.01.08 at sea (embarked at Portsmouth) ship: Serapis
  1874.02.12 India: Bombay
1874.02.25 Lucknow
  1880.12.08 Afghanistan: Kandahar
1881.04 India: Quetta
  1881.12 Muttra
  1884.11.14 at sea (embarked at Bombay) ship: Serapis
1884.11.29 South Africa: Port Natal
  1884.12 Pinetown  
1885 Bechuanaland
  1885.10.05 at sea (embarked at Durban) ship: Pembroke Castle
1885.11.03 England: Portsmouth  
  1885.11 Norwich
  1887 Leeds
  1891 Ireland: Ballincollig
  1894 Dublin
1895? Dundalk  
  1899.11 at sea ships: Montfort, Templemore
  1899.12 South Africa  
  1900.02 South Africa 4 Cav Bde
  1902.10 England: Aldershot
  1903 Shorncliffe
  1904.09 India: Secunderabad
  1909 Meerut
  1914.12.14 France and Flanders 2 Ind Cav Bde, BEF
  1916.06.27 Mesopotamia 7 Ind Cav Bde
  1918 Persia  
  1919 Ireland: Longford
  1922.11.09 amalgamated with 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars, to form 13th/18th Hussars