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21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons

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and the liquidation of the East India Company, briefly became the 21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons; it was renamed the 21st Hussars in 1863. It became a lancer regiment in 1897, as the 21st Lancers, and in 1899 became the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers, which adjusted to the 21st Lancers (Empress
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Muffet, Leigh (2 November 2022). "The Cape of Good Hope Colony and the British World Turned Upside-down, 1806–1836".
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The regiment was raised a third time in 1794 in the north of England when it was also known as the
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It was raised again in 1779 by Major-General John Douglas and disbanded in Canterbury in 1783.
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raised the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry which, after the passage of the
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and was disbanded in Chatham in 1819. Regimental colonels were Colonel
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21st Light Dragoons
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21st Lancers
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cavalry
British Army
Marquis of Granby
Robert Manners-Sutton
Napoleonic Wars
Thomas Richard Beaumont
Banastre Tarleton
Cape Colony
Battle of Montevideo
Barbados
Capture of Tristan de Cunha
Third Anglo-Maratha War
East India Company
Government of India Act 1858
"21st Dragoons (Royal Foresters)"
"21st Light Dragoons"
"21st Light Dragoons 1085"
"21st Regiment of (Light) Dragoons"
the original
doi
10.1080/03086534.2022.2086205
S2CID
250571642
ISBN
978-1-315-88482-0
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