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The British Army, in the modern sense of the standing army under the Crown, was formed following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1661. At this point, the small standing forces included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Troops of Horse Guards and the Royal Regiment of Horse; some of these had been raised in exile and some as part of the New Model Army.
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8th King's Royal Irish Hussars; 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot; 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot; 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot; 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment) 101st Regiment of Foot (Duke of York's Irish) 152 (North Irish) Regiment RLC
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Irish Regiment - 1 + 1 battalion [14]
Like other Guards regiments, the Irish Guards wear bearskins and redcoats as their ceremonial dress. Queen's Royal Hussars: 1685–present: This cavalry regiment also features among its ancestors English and Scottish forefathers, but the Irish lineage derives from the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, which later became the Queen's Royal Irish ...
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [ 1 ]
The Cavalry Corps today is approximately equivalent in size to a single cavalry regiment; however, the Defence Forces have never used the regimental structure (although there was an attempt during 1942 to organise units into a cavalry regiment). Instead, cavalry operates as independent squadrons. Today, the army has a total of three cavalry ...