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

CHAPTER I.--1781-1782

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THE TWENTY-THIRD LIGHT DRAGOONS.

Alarming state of Public Affairs--Want of Cavalry in India--Orders for raising the 23rd Light Dragoons--Colonel Sir John Burgoyne--Regiment embark for India--Arrive in Madras--Desperate State of Affairs--Madras Misgovernment--Horses for the Regiment 19