Tour Scotland Photograph Heavy Cavalry

Tour Scotland photograph of horses and riders of the Heavy Cavalry at The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards homecoming march through Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dragoon Guards was the designation used to refer to certain heavy cavalry regiments in the British Army from the 18th century onwards. While the Prussian and Russian armies of the same period included dragoon regiments among their respective Imperial Guards, different titles were applied to these units. The British Army first used the designation in 1746, when the King's Own Regiment of Horse, the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Horse, prior to 1727 the Princess of Wales Own and the 4th Horse were redesignated as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dragoon Guards respectively. In 1788 the four remaining regiments of Horse were converted into the 4th to 7th Dragoon Guards.



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