The Nineteenth and Their Times Being an Account of the Four Cavalry Regiments in the British Army That Have Borne the Number Nineteen and of the Campaigns in Which They Served

PART I

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THE NINETEENTH LIGHT DRAGOONS

DROGHEDA’S HORSE--1759-1763

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State of affairs in Europe in 1756--Declaration of War against France--Increase of the Army--Early Years of the War--Invasion expected--Orders for raising the 19th Light Dragoons--Death of George II.--End of the Seven Years’ War--Reduction of Military Establishments--19th Light Dragoons become the 18th--Uniform of the Regiment 1