The Duke of Cumberland's Regiment of Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1746 and disbanded in 1749. It was raised by the

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in 1746, drawing most of its men from the recently disbanded Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse, and was ranked as the 15th Light Dragoons - the first regiment of the British Army to be classed as light dragoons. It served in the Netherlands during the

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, and distinguished itself at the Battle of Lauffeld. Following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle the regiment was withdrawn to the United Kingdom; in September 1748 Lord Robert Manners succeeded the Duke as colonel, and the regiment was disbanded in 1749.

References

*"On the institution of light cavalry", p. xxii, in ''Historical record of the fourteenth, or the King's, regiment of Light Dragoons'', by Richard Cannon. London: Parker, Furnivall. 1847
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