First King’s or Royal Guidon, Hampshire Light Dragoons, 1794-1799
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Accession Number

NAM.1955-05-90-1

Description

First King’s or Royal Guidon, Hampshire Light Dragoons Fencible Cavalry, 1794-1799. The regiment was raised by Col Thomas Cooper Everitt in May 1794. Although it originally consisted of two troops it appears to have been expanded to three or four troops before it was disbanded in 1799.

Campaigns

Wars of the French Revolution, Home Defence (1793-1802)