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The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"

Chapter 15: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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The text traces the regiment's origins and institutional development, recounting its service in notable nineteenth-century campaigns and battlefield actions. It profiles officers and personalities using contemporary letters, memoirs, portraits, and archival documents. It details uniforms, equipment, customs, honors, and administrative organization, and includes a roll of officers with biographical notes. Illustrated throughout, the narrative blends tactical history with social and personal recollections to convey regimental traditions, character, and evolving military role.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Facing Page
"Scotland for Ever." By kind permission of the Artist, and by arrangement with the proprietors of the copyright, Messrs. S. Hildesheimer & Co., Ltd. Frontispiece
Facsimile of "Ane Account deu be Thomas Dalzell of Bins for his Fathers funerall, to George Porteous the 2 of Sept 1685" ix.
Facsimile of a letter to General Dalzell, dated 30th December, 1654, wholly in the King's own hand xiii.
"Generall Thomas Dalyell who served Charles the Second King of Great Brittaine as Major Generall of his Army at the Battle of Worcester and thereafter being taken prisoner by the Rebells after long imprisonment made his escape out of the Tower of London went to Muscovie where he served the Emperor of Russia as one of the Generals of his Forces against the Polanders and Tartars till the year 1665 when he was recalled by King Charles the second and thereafter did command His Majesties Forces at the defeat of the Rebells at Pentland Hills in Scotland and continued Lieutenant Generall in Scotland when His Majestie had any standing Forces in that Kingdom till the year of his death 1685 in the Raigne of our present Soveraigne James the second of Great Brittaine" 1
Facsimile of Charles II.'s Commission, dated 19th July, 1666, appointing "Generall Thomas Dalzell 'Captaine' of a Troupe of Horse" 2
Facsimile of Charles II.'s Commission, dated 19th June, 1679, appointing "Generall Thomas Dalzell 'Lieutenant Generall' over all the Forces within our ancient Kingdome of Scotland" 6
Facsimile of Charles II.'s Commission, dated 11th November, 1681, appointing "Lieutenant Generall Thomas Dalzell 'Colonell' of a Regiment of Dragoones to be formed out of the three Companies of Dragoones already standing in that our Kingdome" 8
Facsimile of Warrant of Charles II., granting "certain revenues to Thomas Dalzell as Lieutenant Generall in command of the Forces in Scotland" 16
Facsimile of James II.'s Commission, dated 30th March, 1685, appointing "Generall Thomas Dalzell 'Lieutenant Generall' over all our Forces within our ancient Kingdome of Scotland" 18
Facsimile of Warrant of William and Mary, 1692, confirming the title "Our Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons" 20
His Excellency, John, Earl of Stair 21
Facsimile of "Signatures of Colonel Agnew's Troop, for receipt of Bountie Monie for Campaigne of 1704" 29
Field Marshal John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, K.T. Born 1673; died 1747. From the painting at Lochinch 30
Grenadier Cap of the Scots Greys, 1743, preserved in the Museum of the United Service Institution 36
Farm Buildings, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Wigtonshire. The farm buildings were used as barracks by the Scots Greys under command of John, Earl of Stair 36
Charles Ewart, Sergeant in the Scots Greys, carrying off the Eagle belonging to one of the most distinguished divisions of the French Infantry at the Battle of Waterloo 60
The Grave of Ewart, who captured the Eagle at Waterloo 61
Facsimile of "Muster Role of Waterloo Men 2nd (or R.N.B.) Regiment of Dragoons." Rouen, 11th September, 1815 64, 65
Facsimile of "Signatures of Officers present of the 2nd (or R.N.B.) Regiment of Dragoons entitled to share of Prize Money granted for the Waterloo Campaign." Canterbury, 29th May, 1817 69
Hoof of a Charger of the Greys at Balaclava 76
Captain Toosey Williams 78
Memorial to the Memory of Fallen Heroes of the Royal Scots Greys, Edinburgh 85
From a Coloured Drawing in the British Museum, dated 1742 136
General Dalzell's Comb 139
General Thomas Dalzell's Dagger and Spoon 140
An Officer of the Royal Scots Greys, about 1834. From a rare print kindly lent by Messrs. Robson & Co. 141
An Officer in Levée Dress, Crimean period 142
Anitchkoff Palace, St. Petersburg, 2nd of February, 1895—The Emperor of Russia accepting the Picture, presented by the Officers, of H.I.M. as Colonel-in-Chief marching past at the head of the Regiment 155
Colonel Clarke 173
John, Earl of Craufurd 176
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Hankin, present with the Greys at Waterloo 201
Lieutenant-Colonel Hippisley 205
Lieutenant-Colonel James Charles Maberly 220
Lord Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore 227
H.I.M. the Emperor of Russia, Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Greys 229
General Nugent 230
Colonel Sanderson 241
Colonel H. J. Scobell 242
The Right Honourable John, Earl of Stair 246
Colonel Wallace 255
Lieutenant-Colonel Welby 256
Lieutenant-Colonel Coventry Williams 258
Regimental Standards 282

Colonel-in-Chief

His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II., Emperor of Russia

Colonel

Major-General A. S. M. Browne

Lieutenant-Colonel

Coventry Williams

Major (2nd in command)

A. D. Miller

Majors

C. B. Bulkeley-Johnson
W. F. Collins
A. Lawson

Captains

Hon. R. H. Lindsay
A. G. Seymour
Hon. A. J. M. St. Clair
F. Swetenham
R. D. Fordyce
W. Long
[1]H. B. Towse
G. G. Middleton
W. E. Lawrence
[1]H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught

Lieutenants

W. McC. Duguid McCombie
Hon. A. M. Henley
C. R. Pawson
F. A. U. Pickering
S. J. Hardy
J. M. F. Sprot
[1]A. R. Moncrieff
[1]E. H. Bonham
[1]P. R. Laurie
[1]M. J. C. S. Johnstone
[1]A. B. Winch

Second Lieutenants

[1]M. Borwick
[1]T. E. Estcourt
[1]J. J. Readman
E. J. Hardy
J. M. Wilson
[1]Viscount Ebrington

Adjutant

Capt. W. Long

Riding Master

G. Parker (Hon. Captain)

Quarter Master

T. M. Ross (Hon. Lieutenant)

[1] This list is taken from the June Army List and checked with that for July, 1907. The officers marked with an asterisk are those who joined while the book was passing through the press.

Generall Thomas Dalyell who served Charles the Second King of Great Brittaine as Major Generall of his Army at the Battle of Worcester and thereafter being taken prisoner by the Rebells after long imprisonment made his escape out of the Tower of London went to Muscovie where he served the Emperor of Russia as one of the Generals of his Forces against the Polanders and Tartars till the year 1665 when he was recalled by King Charles the second and thereafter did command His Majesties Forces at the defeat of the Rebells at Pentland Hills in Scotland and continued Lieutenant Generall in Scotland when His Majestie had any standing Forces in that Kingdom till the year of his death 1685 in the Raigne of our present Soveraigne James the second of Great Brittaine.

HISTORICAL RECORDS
OF THE
ROYAL SCOTS GREYS.