It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big affair for a regiment which had gone into battle for over three-quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

A strong cavalry regiment was formed by Khalid ibn Walid which included the veterans of the campaign of Iraq and Syria.

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

The regiment was established in 1808 by the Prince Regent and future king of Portugal, John VI, with the duty of protecting the Portuguese royal family, which had sought refuge in Brazil during the Napoleonic wars.

This is commemorated by the custom under which the horse having this number is used only by the commander of the modern regiment.

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

This regiment of dragoons was created in 1904 following the suggestion of a French military mission which undertook the reorganization of the Peruvian Army in 1896.

On July 4, Allen and Warner made their case to New York's Provincial Congress, which, despite the fact that the Royal Governor had placed a price on their heads, agreed to the formation of a regiment.

However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu.

The new regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 in the campaign which finally wrested Canada from France ; at Quebec it won from General James Wolfe the motto Celer et Audax ( Swift and Bold ).

Its work horse is the M113 which is commonly used by every regiment and brigade.

By 2007 the now-Russian force, now designated the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the Moscow Military District had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor Rifle Brigade and a surface-to-air missile regiment.

* 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.

This left me in command of the regiment, of which I was very glad, for such experience as we had had is a quick teacher.

* February 14 – George Monck ’ s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards ( which later becomes Coldstream Guards )

When General Abrams mentioned the cavalry's concerns over the new vehicle, Patton recommended that the Sheridans be combat tested by a divisional cavalry squadron and a squadron from his own regiment ; both of which had completely different missions.

Two days later the regiment surrounded Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, in a tobacco barn on the Virginia farm of Richard Garrett.

At the age of 6, he was given his own regiment of children to drill as cadets, and a year later, he was given a miniature arsenal.

In 1964 he was commissioned in an anti aircraft artillery regiment ( 36 LAA Regiment Artillery, later 36 Light Air Defence Regiment ).

In 1639 Lovelace joined the regiment of Lord Goring, serving first as a senior ensign and later as a captain in the Bishops ’ Wars.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

The Normandie-Niemen Regiment () was a fighter squadron, later regiment ( of three squadrons ) of the French Air Force.

There are unsubstantiated stories that Marta worked briefly in the laundry of the victorious regiment, and also that she was presented in her undergarments to Brigadier General Rudolph Felix Bauer, later the Governor of Estonia, to be his mistress.

They were removed four months later by a Catholic Wallon regiment, after which they tried several times between 1581 and 1582 to take the city of Lille, all in vain.

The regiment and Ye Ting later played a leading role in the Communist's first major military action, the Nanchang Revolt.

That same year his father, then Colonel of the 55th Foot ( later renumbered the 44th ), purchased a commission for Charles as an Ensign in the same regiment.

They were later rebuilt during the Cold War, eventually forming seven Airborne Divisions, an Independent Airborne regiment and sixteen Air Assault Brigades.

On 12 July, the sabre charge of Charles-Eugène de Lorraine, prince de Lambesc's cavalry regiment, the Royal-Allemand, on a crowd gathered at the Tuileries gardens, sparked the Storming of the Bastille two days later.

Two of those later convicted ( James McDowell and Thomas Crozier ) were also serving members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ), a part-time, locally recruited regiment of the British Army.

Three years later, William Card's grandsons ( Jonathan Card's two young sons ), Thomas ( 1762 – 1850 ) and Jonathan ( 1764 – 1836 ), would serve in Colonel Herrick's Vermont regiment on the " Yankee " or Patriot lines during 1780 / 1.

The regiment was the only Alabama regiment in Rucker's Brigade, commanded by Col. Edmund Rucker of Tennessee ( later Alabama ), who became a prominent Montgomery businessman after the war.

Rupert was placed in command of a Palatinate cavalry regiment, and his later friend Lord Craven, an admirer of Rupert's mother, assisted in raising funds and accompanied the army on the campaign.

Moments later, De Viry Marshal received the order to lead a regiment of cavalry against a Spanish battery, and joins Labedoyère advancing at a run and dives, one of the first, against the battery, which was caught.

Moments later, Zeschau's Saxon brigade, with Prince Maximilian's regiment attached to it, came in support, but these troops had been much disordered when crossing the Russbach, and upon entering the smoke filled streets of the village, they too lost impetus.

Two days later the regiment was ordered to Bataan.

The 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps ( later part of the Royal Green Jackets ) fought alongside the Sirmoor Rifles and were so impressed that following the mutiny they insisted 2nd GR be awarded the honours of adopting their distinctive rifle green uniforms with scarlet edgings and rifle regiment traditions and that they should hold the title of riflemen rather than sepoys.

Early in the following year he transferred to the 12th Regiment of Foot, a British Army infantry regiment, and set sail for Flanders some months later where the British took up position in Ghent.

The new regiment consisted of six companies ( later augmented to 10 ) and was numbered the 43rd Regiment of Foot ( later promoted to the 42nd ) but continued to be known by their more familiar name, the Black Watch.