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This is a regiment for Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars and hopefully the upcoming game Whigs and Tories. We do not use ts or discord.

The regiment was sent to North America in 1775, arriving in Boston, then besieged by American rebels in the American Revolutionary War.[7] It fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a costly British victory, in June 1775.[7] The regiment was withdrawn to Halifax.[8] It fought at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776[8] at the Battle of White Plains in October 1776[9] and at the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776.[9] It was in action again at the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery in October 1777,[10] the Battle of Crooked Billet in May 1778[11] and the Battle of Barren Hill later that month.[11]

The regiment provided a detachment for operations in the southern colonies as part of Tarleton's Legion, a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and was engaged in a number of battles.[12] The legion, commanded by Banastre Tarleton, was founded in 1778 by Loyalist contingents from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.[13] As the attached regular cavalry, the 17th Light Dragoons clung on to an identity separate from the provincials, even refusing to exchange their fading scarlet clothing for the legion's green jackets.[14] They sustained heavy losses in the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781 after being ordered by Tarleton to charge a formation of American militia. Although their charge was initially effective, the dragoons, numbering about 50, were quickly surprised and outnumbered by concealed American cavalry, under Colonel William Washington, and driven back in disarray.[15][16] The American War of Independence officially ended in 1783. An officer of the regiment, Captain Stapleton, had the distinction of delivering to George Washington the despatch confirming the declaration of the cessation of hostilities.[17]

The regiment returned to Ireland, where it remained until 1795, when it sailed for the West Indies to reinforce depleted forces battling the French.[18] Two troops were used to suppress an uprising by "Maroons" in Jamaica soon after arriving in the Caribbean.[19] Other detachments were embarked aboard HMS Success as "supernumeraries". Their experience at sea has been suggested by regimental historians to have gained the regiment the nickname "Horse Marines".[20] The regiment returned to England in August 1797.[21] It was based in Ireland again from May 1803 to winter 1805.[22]

19th century Edit
In 1806, the regiment took part in the disastrous expeditions to Spanish-controlled South America, then an ally of France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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