![]() It took part in the Battle of Campo Maior on the Spanish-Portuguese border on 25 March 1811 in a clash that occurred between British and Portuguese cavalry, under Robert Ballard Long, and a force of French infantry and cavalry under General Latour-Maubourg. In February 1810 the regiment sailed for Lisbon for service in the Peninsular War. Peninsular War Members of the 13th attack French horse artillery at Albuera (from a book published in 1895) A detachment from the regiment was sent to Jamaica in September 1795 and returned in July 1798. It was involved in putting down a minor rebellion by George Robert FitzGerald in 1781 and it converted to the light role in 1783. The regiment returned to Ireland in 1749 and was re-titled the 13th Regiment of Dragoons in 1751. Shortly after this, Gardiner's replacement Francis Ligonier died of sickness and was replaced by Philip Naison. ĭuring the 1745 Jacobite Rising, it was commanded by James Gardiner largely composed of recruits, on 16 September the regiment was routed by a small party of Highlanders in the so-called 'Coltbridge Canter.' Demoralised by this, it did the same at the Battle of Prestonpans on 21 September, which lasted 15 minutes and where Gardiner was killed and the equally disastrous Battle of Falkirk Muir in January 1746. The regiment was sent to Ireland in 1718 and remained there until 1742. It took part in the Battle of Preston in November 1715 after which it escorted the rebels to the nearest prisons. The regiment was raised in the Midlands by Richard Munden as Richard Munden’s Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 as part of the response to the Jacobite rebellion. ![]() ![]() History Uniform of the 13th Light Dragoons Early wars It saw service for three centuries including the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War and the First World War but then amalgamated with the 18th Royal Hussars, to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922. The 13th Hussars (previously the 13th Light Dragoons) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army established in 1715. ![]()
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