SEVENTH HUSSARS.
The Regiment was formed in Scotland from Independent Troops of Dragoons; it was disbanded in 1713, but restored in 1715, and mainly reformed from two troops of the present 1st Dragoons, and three troops of the present 2nd Dragoons; it then received its title in honour of the Prince of Wales’s wife.
It bears “the Royal Cypher within the Garter.”
It was nicknamed “the old saucy Seventh” in the Peninsula, also “the lily-white Seventh” from its light-blue uniform and white facings, and also “Young Eyes.”