FIFTH DRAGOON GUARDS.
The Regiment was formed from Independent Troops of Horse raised in various English counties.
It wore cuirasses till 1688, and again from 1707 to 1714.
It bears the motto “Vestigia nulla retrorsum,” which was borne by Colonel John Hampden’s Regiment in the Civil War.
It captured four standards at the battle of Blenheim.
It was known in the eighteenth century as “The Green Horse” from its facings, and afterwards as “The Green Dragoon Guards.”