13th Light Dragoons
| 13th Hussars | |
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Badge of the 13th Hussars
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| Active | 1715–1922 |
| Country |
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1715–1800) United Kingdom (1801–1922) |
| Branch |
 British Army
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| Type | Line Cavalry |
| Size | 1 Regiment |
| Motto(s) | Viret in aeternum (It Flourishes Forever) |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich |
Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich
Major-General William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
Lieutenant-General Henry Hawley
Lieutenant-General Humphrey Bland
Colonel James Gardiner
Major General Sir Charles Powlett
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway
General Sir Baker Russell
The 13th Hussars (previously the 13th Light Dragoons) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army established in 1715. It saw service for three centuries including the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War and the First World War but then amalgamated with the 18th Royal Hussars, to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922.
The regiment was raised in the Midlands by Richard Munden as Richard Munden’s Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 as part of the response to the Jacobite rebellion. It took part in the Battle of Preston in November 1715 after which it escorted the rebels to the nearest prisons. The regiment was sent to Ireland in 1718 and remained there until 1742. It fought but was completely outflanked at the Battle of Prestonpans in September 1745 and then took part in the equally disastrous Battle of Falkirk Muir in January 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745. The regiment returned to Ireland in 1749 and was re-titled the 13th Regiment of Dragoons in 1751. It was involved in putting down a minor rebellion by George Robert FitzGerald in 1781 and it converted to the light role in 1783. A detachment from the regiment was sent to Jamaica in September 1795 and returned in July 1798.
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