Difference between revisions of "17th Lancers"

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Also known as 17th (Light) Dragoons and 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

1759 raised by Colonel John Hale as Hale's Light Horse known as the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1761 renumbered as the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1766 renumbered again as the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons
1769 renumbered again as the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1822 renamed the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)
1861 renamed the 17th Regiment of Lancers
1921 retitled as the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1922 amalgamated with the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's) to form the 17th/21st Lancers
1993 amalgamated with the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers

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 ===Historical Books Online===
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor01canngoog#page/n15/mode/1up ''Historical Record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lancers: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759, and of its subsequent services to 1841''] 1841.  Archive.org. Indian Service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor01canngoog#page/n68/mode/1up/ page 54] in 1808 in Calcutta
+*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorythlance00fortgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''A History of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)''] by Hon. J.W. Fortescue 1895 Archive.org
 ===Other===