1759-63. The 19th Light Dragoons; popularly, "The Drogheda Light Horse."
1763-1807. The 18th Light Dragoons.
1807-22. The 18th King's Irish Hussars (then disbanded and revived).
1858 (from). The 18th Hussars.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1795. Jamaica.
1796. St. Domingo.
1799. Holland.
*1808-14. Peninsula.
1808. Sahagun.
1809. Benevente.
1809. Corunna.
1813. Vittoria.
1813. Nive.
1814. Orthes.
1814. Toulouse.
*1815. Waterloo.
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet (1759----?); subsequently, and at disbandment,
Dark Blue; Blue (from 1858). Facings, White (1759-1821); Blue
(from 1858). Plume, Scarlet and White.
REGIMENTAL BADGE.--None recognised in _Regulations_; but in the
case of both the late and the present 18th "The Royal Cypher and
Crown" appeared and appears on the appointments. Motto, "_Pro
Rege, pro Lege, pro Patria Conamur_"--"We Strive for Sovereign,
Laws, and Country."
NOTES.--The first 18th is now the 17th Lancers; the present 18th,
raised at Leeds in 1858, was allowed to revive the "honours" of
the old corps, disbanded in 1821; the motto and the scarlet and
white plume were restored in 1878.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 18th Hussars._ By
Captain Harold Esdaile Malet. [London: Clowes. 1869.]
[Illustration: THE ROYAL CYPHER AND CROWN.]
The Nineteenth (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars.
[Illustration: THE ELEPHANT.]