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Royal Dragoon Guards - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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Royal Dragoon Guards - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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The Royal Dragoon Guards, formed in 1992 from the 4th/7th Royal
Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, has a
proud history dating back to 1685: the Earl of Arran's Regiment of
Cuirassiers, the antecedents of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon
Guards and the Duke of Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse (5th Dragoon
Guards) were raised during the Monmouth Rebellion. Along with Sir
Albert Cunningham's Regiment of Horse (latterly the 6th
Inniskilling Dragoons) they fought together at the Battle of the
Boyne. These are regiments that have been present at some of the
great battles and campaigns of history: Dettingen, Fontenoy, the
Peninsula and Waterloo, where Inniskillings charged as part of the
Union Brigade and are rumoured to have captured a French Eagle. At
Balaklava, the Inniskillings and 4th Dragoon Guards took part in
the far more successful, but less celebrated, 'Charge of the Heavy
Brigade'. All four regiments served during the Second Boer War, and
it was the 4th Dragoon Guards that became the first members of the
British Expeditionary Force to make contact with German troops in
August 1914. In this book, Anthony Dawson draws on archival
material from the Regimental Collection, as well as diaries and
letters, to give a vivid, personal account of this famous regiment.
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