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	QRL - History of the 17th Lancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On 17th April, 1783, it was Captain Stapleton of the 17th who handed General Washington the final British notice of the cessation of hostilities.
		Although the 17th remained in the Crimea for the rest of the campaign they did not play a major role in any of the remaining battles, which were predominantly infantry affairs.
		It was during this pursuit that Lieutenant Evelyn Wood (who had transferred from the Navy to the 17th Lancers and was eventually to rise to the rank of Field Marshal) was awarded a Victoria Cross for single handedly attacking a squadron of mutineers from the Bengal Light Infantry.
	www.qrl.uk.com /h_17.html (2732 words)

	The 17th Lancers
		In 1854 the 17th Lancers were ordered abroad as part of an Anglo-French expeditionary forces to help Turkey who had been invaded by Russia.
		The third and final action in which the 17th Lancers were involved and which is still celebrated every year on 25th October, was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", immortalised in the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
		The 17th played a minor role in the battle of Inkerman but continued to suffer daily from the privations of maladministration and the weather in the area.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/17th.html (928 words)

	Full Dress Uniform of the 17th Lancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This portrait of an officer of the 17th clearly shows the full dress uniform worn from 1840 to 1855.
		The facings of the 17th were still white, but were not as obvious as in the 1820s when their jackets displayed a white plastron on the front.
		The only chapska known of a 1816 British officer is held in a private collection in Lewes, Sussex, England and is that of a 16th Dragoon (lancers) and a direct copy of the latter's pattern issued to the Guard Lancers.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/17thdress.html (509 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Fact file: The Queen's Royal Lancers
		The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.
		The 17th Lancers - the Duke of Cambridge's Own, raised in 1759, and the 21st - Empress of India's, raised in 1760, were also amalgamated in 1922.
		The 17th was involved in the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea in 1854.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/2888439.stm (364 words)

	17th Lancers regiment
		Of these, the 17th Lancers was one, and was first numbered the 18th; but on the reduction of Lord Aberdour's regiment in 1763 it took rank as the 17th.
		Corporal O'Lavery of the 17th was sent to accompany the bearer of an important despatch; attacked on the way, the latter was killed, but the Corporal, hiding the paper in his wound, rode on with it till he fell from loss of blood.
		In the present instance the dismounted horseman (Rough Rider Corporal Long, of the 17th Lancers) is one of a line of skirmishers ordered to use their carbines on foot, against an enemy whom they are unable to get at owing to the nature of the intervening obstacles.
	www.armynavyairforce.co.uk /17th_lancers.htm (3447 words)

	17th Lancers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Various amalgamations have resulted in its absorption into the Queen's Royal Lancers (which is formed also from the 5th Lancers, 16th Lancers and 21st Lancers).
		During the Siege of Sevastopol (which had began in September) the 17th Lancers took part in the Battle of Balaklava on the 25 October.
		The 17th Lancers advancing, wearing the uniform they would have worn during the early stages of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/17th_Lancers (2322 words)

	QRL - History of the 17th/21st Lancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 17th/21st Lancers were posted to Meerut, India, in 1930, but it was not until 1938 eleven years after the loss of the lance that the Regiment were first mechanised.
		The role of the 17th/21st Lancers within Blade Force was to provide a flank guard for the 78th Division, which was to occupy the city.
		The main role of the 17th/21st Lancers service after the war was as part of the British Army of the Rhine serving as part of NATO's conventional deterrent against the Warsaw Pact Armies of Eastern Europe.
	www.qrl.uk.com /h_17_21.html (1605 words)

	The 5th Royal Irish Lancers
		The 5th Royal Irish Lancers were one of the latter being disbanded in 1921 along with many other cavalry regiments of the British Army.
		This new regiment known as the 16th/5th Lancers whose motto was “Aut cursu, aut cominus armis” means "Either in the charge, or hand to hand".
		Within The Queen's Royal Lancers the 5th Lancer Squadron is the direct descendant of the original 5th Royal Irish Lancers.
	www.royalirishlancers.co.uk /royalirish_today.htm (472 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		The 17th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an American infantry regiment organised at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into the service of the United States on the 15th of March, 1862.
		In 1816 they were converted to the 17th Lancers and became known as the 'Death or Glory Boys' from their skull and cross-bones badge.
		The 5th Lancers (Royal Irish Lancers) were a British cavalry regiment descended from a corps of dragoons raised by William III for the Irish and Flemish wars.
	david-pye.com /probert/F1.php (8592 words)

	Queens Royal Lancers - Regimental Badge
		Formed in 1922 by the amalgamation of the 16th and the 5th Lancers, it was mechanised in 1939 and fought in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War.
		The 17th Light Dragoons was raised in 1759 following General Wolfe's death in Quebec, with the regiment's motto of a Death's Head and the words 'Or Glory' chosen in commemoration of him.
		In 1993 the 16th/5th and 17th/21st Lancers were amalgamated to form The Queen’s Royal Lancers, retaining the Death’s Head motto of the 17th/21st backed by the scarlet of the 16th/5th.
	www.army.mod.uk /qrl/regimental_badge.htm (649 words)

	The 5th Royal Irish Lancers
		A distinctive green feather plume was worn at the front of the czapska which became synonymous with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, the green reflecting the regiments Irish roots.
		This uniform typified the apearance of the 5th Lancers with the characteristic red plastron and green plume made from drooping swan feathers.
		The distictive shape of the helmet is taken from the Polish lancer cap of the Napoleonic wars, such was their influnce on the lancer regiments of the British Army.
	www.royalirishlancers.co.uk /uniforms.htm (1148 words)

	Lithuanian Military under Napoleon in 1812
		The 20th Lancers, along with a small number of the 19th Lancers became part of the Dantzig garrison and were incorporated into the 9th Polish Lancers.
		The 17th and 19th Lancers, under command of Colonel Rajecki (Michail Tyszkiewicz was sick and rested in Lithuania) took part in the campaign of 1813-1814 in Germany.
		The 17th and 19th regiments continue to fight near Hamburg as part of the XIII Corps under the command of the famous Marshall Davout until April 1814.
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/organization/c_lithuanian.html (1353 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Cavalry: 1822 - 1922: 17th Lancers
		The third and final action in which the 17th Lancers were involved and which is still celebrated every year on 25th October, was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", immortilized in the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
		The 17th Lancers were to form part of the relieving force and set out in October of that year.
		At the end of the war, the 17th were sent to Cologne for occupation purposes, whilst here it lost so many men to demobilisation that it had to have a company of the Rifle Brigade assigned to it to look after the horses.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/17thlancers1822.htm (2553 words)

	British Collectibles - Headdress
		17th Light Dragoons received the additional subtitle "Lancers" in 1822, the regiment served throughout the Crimea, and on October 25th 1854 took part in the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" led by Captain William Morris.
		Re-designated the 17th Regiment of Lancers on August 17th 1861 and the 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers on June 19th 1876, they amalgamated with the 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers on June 27th 1922 to form the 17th/21st Lancers.
		No mothing to the cloth top, leather skull without the usual congealing, silver overlay to the helmet plate now toned, normal minor age dulling to the lace, gimp cords and front peak, Interior silk liner with a small amount of mothing at places.
	www.britishmilitaria.com /1_headdress.html (2835 words)

	Photograph-Pte. 17th Lancers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lancers was taken by Louis Ojeda Perez on Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, in Las Palmas province Spain.
		Lancers embarked on the transports Victorian and Pinemore headed for the South Africa and the Boer War.
		It should also be noted that the lancer tunic had white piping along the back seams of the sleeves.
	www.members.dca.net /fbl/p17lr.html (372 words)

	Lancers
		The Queen's Royal Lancers - motto Death or Glory - is a heavy armour regiment, recently converted to Challenger II main battle tanks.
		Factfile: Challenger II It was formed in June 1993 from the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers.
		The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, although traces its origins to an Irish regiment dating back to 1689.
	www.cavhooah.com /lancers.htm (330 words)

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		They were privates in the 17th Lancers and fell in the death ride at Balaklava.
		The 17th Lancers made their most famous charge as part of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.
		The 17th Lancers were front and centre of the charge.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /collingham_village/page17.html (189 words)

	The Battle of Ulundi - The Zulu War
		The 17th Lancers came up and, keen to establish themselves, rode down the valley looking for the Zulus.
		The Lancers came under fire and their adjutant was shot and killed.
		At this point the 17th Lancers passed out of the back of the square and charged.
	www.britishbattles.com /zulu-war/ulundi.htm (1681 words)

	Charge of the Light Brigade - Crimean War
		Of 673 men who attacked the Russian Guns in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava 478 lost their lives, one was Private Patrick Dowling of the 17th Lancers.
		On the 17th October 1854 the allies commenced their bombardment of a key Russian stronghold at Sebastopol.
		In the first line behind was Private Patrick Dowling in the 17th Lancers with the 13th Dragoons.
	www.dowlingfamily.info /i1854cri.htm (403 words)

	HISTORIK ORDERS, LTD MEDAL GALLERY THE CRIMEA WAR // LIGHT BRIGADE
		He had joined the 17th in 1852 and was appointed ADC to Lord Cardigan for the campaign.
		Twelve guns had been unlimbered in front of them; three fresh squadrons of Lancers stood on each of their flanks; along the Fedioukine Heights were four additional squadrons of cavalry, eight battalions of infantry and fourteen guns.
		The Russian lancers backed away as if they were preparing to fall on the flank of the retreating horsemen when they galloped past.
	www.historikorders.com /lightbrigade.htm (4804 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade
		The, inner squadron of the 17th Lancers broke into a canter, Captain White, its leader, being, he said, 'frankly anxious to get out of such a murderous fire and into the guns as being the lesser of two evils', and he shot forward, level with his brigadier.
		Twenty survivors of the 17th Lancers - the regiment was reduced to thirty-seven men - riding behind Captain Morris had outflanked the battery on the left, and, emerging from the smoke, suddenly found themselves confronted with a solid mass of Russian cavalry drawn up behind the guns.
		The fifteen men of the 17th Lancers, who with the few survivors of the 13th Light Dragoons had charged out of the battery before the second line attacked, were now retreating, with a large Russian force in pursuit.
	www.historyhome.co.uk /forpol/crimea/smithcharge.htm (5741 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: British Cavalry: 1923 - 1993: 17th/21st Lancers
		The fact that the 17th Lancers had sat for most of the war at the rear of the trenches waiting for the breakthrough that never came was not lost on the officers and troopers of this new regiment.
		The 17th/21st Lancers were in Meerut, India when they were informed that they would be losing their horses once and for all.
		From September of 1940 the regiment was brigaded together with the 16th/5th Lancers and the 2nd Lothians and Border Horse in the 26th Armoured Brigade as part of the 6th Armoured Division.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/17th21stlancers1923.htm (2305 words)

	17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers (UK)
		17th Lancers, 1822-1922, by Stephen Luscombe and Charles Griffin (The British Empire).
		The 17th Light Dragoons in North America, 1776-1783, by John Novicki.
		An Introduction To The 17th Lancers And World War I Reenacting, by Gunther Jung and Dietrich Lowe.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/cav/D17b(L).htm (589 words)

	Forward March!
		The third display is a parade of light cavalry regiments led by the five regiments which constituted the famous “Light Brigade” in 1854 (the 17th Lancers, the 8th and 11th Hussars, and the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 25 pieces).
		These are followed by three lancer regiments in foreign service uniforms: the 17th Lancers (the Duke of Cambridge’s Own Regiment in blue tunics, 8 pieces), the 21st Lancers (the Empress of India’s Regiment in khaki tunics, 8 pieces), and the 16th Lancers (the Queen’s Lancers in red tunics, 8 pieces).
		Following are Indian Army cavalry lancer regiments of “Skinners Horse - the Bengal Lancers” and the “1st Bombay Lancers”, both led by trumpeters on white mounts (10 pieces), then Egyptian and Turkish cavalry lancer regiments led by officers on white mounts (10 pieces) and finally the Egyptian Camel Corps (4 pieces).
	www.broward.org /library/bienes/lii09104.htm (755 words)

	17th/21st Lancers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 17th/21st Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1922 to 1993.
		It was formed in 1922 in England by the amalgamation of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) and the 21st Lancers (Empress of India's).
		In 1993, with the reductions in forces after the end of the Cold War, the regiment was amalgamated with the 16th/5th Lancers to form the Queen's Royal Lancers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/17th/21st_Lancers (408 words)

	QRL Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Museum traces both the military and social history of the 16th, 17th, 5th, 21st, 16th/5th,17th/21st Lancers and The Queen's Royal Lancers from formation to the present day.
		June to September: "Honour The Light Brigade" The 150th anniversary of The Charge of the Light Brigade on 25th October 1854 in which the 17th Lancers took part.
		A life size model of a horse with the saddle used by Captain Morgan in The Charge and a rider in uniform of the period form part of the display, together with the Balaklava bugle blown to sound The Charge by Trumpeter Billy Brittain, Duty Trumpeter to Lord Cardigan.
	www.belvoircastle.com /Castle/qrlmuseum.html (241 words)

	Slaughter of British Infantry at Albuera, 1811 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A vast majority of the lancers was preoccupied with gathering the prisoners while small group of Poles attacked and was repulsed by a volley delivered by 31st Foot.
		Several lancers chased Spanish staff officers off the field into one of the infantry squares and a Spanish general was wounded.
		Hoghton’s brigade, with the 57th of Foot in the centre, was just coming up, and by opening fire on the lancers shot many of Zayas’ brave Spaniards in the back.
	web2.airmail.net /napoleon/Albuera_1811.html (4030 words)

	Queens Royal Lancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The various constituent Regiments trace their formation back to the 18th century and in the case of the 5th Lancers back to the late 17th century.
		The Regiment retains the motto ‘Death or Glory’, as its cap badge, given to the 17th Lancers on formation, following the death of General Wolfe from his wounds after their success against the French in Quebec.
		During 2004 the Regiment deployed two Squadrons on Op TELIC 4 (to Iraq) with 1 Mechanised Brigade and was the 11th year in succession that the Regiment had deployed elements on operations.
	www.army.mod.uk /rac/Main_Battle_Tanks/Queens_Royal_Lancers.htm (411 words)

	QRL - Home
		In 1993 the 16th/5th and 17th/21st Lancers were amalgamated to form The Queen's Royal
		Lancers, with Her Majesty The Queen as Colonel-in-Chief.
		With branches throughout the country and regular reunions, the Regimental Association is open to all who have served with one of the above.
	www.qrl.uk.com (123 words)

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