"15th Hussars" Topic

Does any of our experts have any details of the activities of the 15th Light Dragoons/15th Hussars, between 1800 and 1815, in particular, the details of actions that they were involved in. Thanks.

xvld.org/index.html,should do the trick I hope.

Sorry,the re-enactment group has details of employment and actions in that period,google-fu. link

I can help with anything from 1815 (I have a database of the all the men in the regiment from that year). Just let me know.

My wife's Great great grandfather was in that regiment from late 1799 until the beginning of 1815, when he was discharged because of "bad legs". We'd be interested to know, beyond Corunna and Sahagun, what actions the Regiment was in.
Thanks for your offer. His surname was Sheppard; spellings may vary, of course, as he was illiterate.

Sorry Reccerat, the url given seems to be meaningless; at least when I enter it it comes up with "no such Url". The link also seems to be dead.

John Sheppard – No.6 Troop at Waterloo. Born Fortinbridge, Hants. Enlisted 1804. Discharged 1828 aged 42.

James Sheppard – No.2 Troop at Waterloo. Enlisted 1813.

but you said your chap was discharged at beginning of 1815?

Yes.

Try this for the website, if it still doesn't work, I'll get on to them, as an recent ex-member, I still care!

xvld.org

John

Thanks for that; a little more detail.

15th Light Dragoons in Spain with Grants Brigade 1813

15th Hussars Peninsular Somersets Brigade 1814

15th Hussars Waterloo campaign in Fifth Brigade

From Osprey No 126….I know not always accurate!!

hussarbob1746.webs.com

Villers en Cauchies
Willems
Egmont Op Zee
Sahagun
Vittoria
Waterloo

All battle honours of the 15th Light Dragoons/Hussars

Thanks gents. I have the Osprey, but it is the detail that I'm after.

15th Hussars…best British Cavalry regiment from 1793-1815…bar none…man for man, they could (and DID) hold their own w/Daumesnil's Chasseurs a Cheval of the Guard (and that speaks alot).

They had an excellent rep before going to the Low Countries in 1793, but were taken under the wing of the Archduke Leopold Hussars (Austrian) and taught many of the skills and tricks that make a good regiment great and they never forgot them during the next 22 years.

The regimental history of the 15th Light Dragoon Hussars is available on Google (need to spell out the number on a search):

Historical record of the fifteenth, or the kings regiment of light dragoons, hussars: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of the subsequent services to 1841
John W. Oarker, West Strand, 1841

link

Edwulf,

You forgot 'Emsdorf' the regiments first battle honour,
indeed the first battle honour bestowed upon the British Army!

I can highly recommend the following books;

Light Dragoons, by Allan Mallinson,
15th the Kings Hussars, By Alan Kemp,
The Princes Dolls, by John Mollo, (for a period taste!)

Here is the link to their "sister" regiment too:

link

BTW…Ralpher et al…I know how to snag links from Google Books…but not the ones you and others seem to come up with…how does one go about finding those?

Let someone else (Steven H Smith) find them:

TMP link

My Englaise, she's a not so gude…

I was speaking more about the format of presentation…when I provide a link to Gooble.ducks…I send it using the search names I was looking under.

Others here give the link and it gives you the details, download linx and a big button saying…Would you like to read this book…I was just wondering where you go to get that specific format?

(But THANKS nonetheless, Clam Cloud!)

Just finished painting them …… have a look 18mm AB

theemperorsown.blogspot.com

Andrew,

Here is your link, less your search terms:

link

All that has been done is to delete all charachters past the "id=8aNDAAAAIAAJ"

If you wanted to direct us to page 226, you need to delete all charachters past "&pg=PA226":

link

To view the above URLs, place the "Curser" over the "Link". To be able to copy the URLs, right click on "Link", then Click on properties. You can then copy all or part of the URL – to copy all of the URL (Note it may be longer then what is visable), double "Click" then "Copy".

Thanks Steven…very much appreciated!