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created 10 October 2002. Corrected and updated
19.11.2004
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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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Colour Key
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| 1688 | independent troops raised in England | ||
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution | Lord Devonshire's troop escorted Princess Anne from London to Nottingham Castle, then to Oxford | |
| 1688.12.31 | Lord
Cavendish's Regiment of Horse formed by regimentation of independent troops |
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| 1689 | Ireland: Jacobite war | ||
| 1691 | Flanders | ||
| 1698 | England | ||
| 1702 | Flanders & Germany | ||
| 1714 | Ireland | ||
| 1742 | Flanders | ||
| 1745 | England | ||
| 1747 | Ireland | ||
| 1751.07.01 | 4th Regiment of Horse | ||
| 1760 | Germany | ||
| 1763 | Ireland | ||
| 1788.04.01 | 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards | ||
| 1793 | Ireland | ||
| 1799 | England | ||
| 1814 | Ireland | ||
| 1820 | Scotland | ||
| 1822 | England | ||
| 1843 | Cape Colony | ||
| 1846 | Kaffir war | ||
| 1848 | England | ||
| 1858 | India | ||
| 1858 | Sepoy rebellion: Bengal | ||
| 1859 | India | ||
| 1867 | England | ||
| 1872 | Ireland | ||
| 1878 | England | ||
| <1881> | Aldershot | ||
| 1882.07 | Egypt | ||
| 1882.10 | England: Aldershot | ||
| 1883 | India: Mhow | ||
| 1888 | Umballa | ||
| 1891 | Muttra | ||
| 1893 | Egypt | ||
| 1894 | England: Shorncliffe | ||
| 1896 | Norwich | ||
| 1899 | Colchester | ||
| 1900.02.08 | at sea | ship: Armenian | |
| 1900.03.01 | South Africa | ||
| 1900.04 | South Africa | 4 Cav Bde | |
| 1904 | England: Canterbury | ||
| 1908 | Egypt | ||
| 1911 | India: Secunderabad | ||
| 1914.12 | France and Flanders | 2 Ind Cav Div, BEF | |
| 1916.11 | France and Flanders | 5 Cav Div | |
| 1918.03 | France and Flanders | 7 Cav Bde, 3 Cav Div | |
| 1919 | Aldershot | ||
| 1919 | Iraq | 7 Cav Bde | |
| 1921 | 7th Dragoon Guards (The Princess Royal's) | ||
| 1921 | Iraq | ||
| 1922.10.22 | amalgamated with 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, to form 4th/7th Dragoon Guards | ||
