Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse

The Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1745 at his own expense, in imitation of hussars in foreign service, and disbanded in 1746.

It was raised by the 2nd Duke of Kingston, ranked as the 10th Horse, and offered for service in the Second Jacobite Rising, where it fought with distinction; at Culloden, it pursued the retreating Jacobite army for three miles from the battlefield.

The men had enlisted for the duration of the fighting, and so the regiment was disbanded at Nottingham in September 1746, with the Duke of Cumberland enlisting most of the men (all but eight of the original) into the newly formed Duke of Cumberland's Regiment of Light Dragoons.

References

• "On the institution of light cavalry", p. xx, in Historical record of the fourteenth, or the King's, regiment of Light Dragoons, by Richard Cannon. London: Parker, Furnivall. 1847. Digitised copy
• p. 28, The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1745, by Michael Barthorp & Gerry Embleton. Osprey Publishing. 1982. ISBN 0850454328

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