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The History of the 2nd Dragoons

Chapter VIII

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CHAPTER VIII

Composition of the Greys at their first recorded muster in 1683, from the original Roll in Edinburgh—pay of the regiment—account of money paid by the Greys' Quartermaster in 1688, from an original document of the Greys—List of Officers, past and present.

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Extracts from orders of the Scots Greys' Troop Orderly Book—notes of Inspection Returns, from the Record Office—a notable prayer, commending the Greys to favour—copies of two holograph letters of Charles II. relating to Thos. Dalzell, and translation of General Dalzell's Russian commission, furnished by Captain Lindsay—entry from the original MS. in the General Register House, Edinburgh, 1685—extract from "Papers connected with the Royal Scots Dragoons," 1696—1704-6 (two letters from General Dalzell)—extract from order in Record Office, 1684—muster-roll, 1702-3—account of the Waterloo Ball, from reprint in the Globe, 1906—extract from pamphlet, "Military and Biographical Notices of the Fallen Heroes," 1815—extract from contemporary pamphlet relating to cavalry losses at Waterloo—letter of William Knox, 1759—anecdotes of the Greys—song, "The Bonnie Scots Greys," by A. C. E. Welby—inscription on mural tablet in memory of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Pate Hankin, Kt.—extract from letter written by the Hon. Charles Hamilton to his brother, during the Westphalian campaign—notes on Creichtoun's Memoirs, and on General Dalyell, by J. B. Dalzell, Esq.

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