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I made a claim that English/Scottish/British dragoons where mounted on full size cavalry horses during the Spanish succession.

But where did i read this?

Have I simply confused the fact that by the SYW they rode cavalry mounts? And they didn't during the WSS?

maybe Chandler's Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough?

Haven't read that one.

Not read that either. I beleive that the common use books (Chandler, Faulkner, Litton etc) all refer to the smaller mounts being used for dragoons.

I read this recently, but trying to remember where, it may have been a regimental history but the information is from a memoir, they gave their dragoon horses to a horse regiment, they could do this because they were the same size and quality, may have been during the nine years war, the dragoon regiment went back to England where they would be remounted. I will try and find it again.

I wonder if this perception is linked to the Royal Scots Greys? Because of the limited employment of horseflesh in the Scottish army pre-1707, and the state of Scottish horseflesh generally, it seems likely that the standard of mounts did not differ that much between the RSG (a dragoon regiment) and their "horse" counterparts.

It might have been mentioned in Mrs Christian Davies memoirs?
But somehow i feel I've read this multiple times…

I found some reference in the history of the Royal dragoons, a Journal by Lt-colonel de St. Pierre (a French Huguenot)they gave their horses to the other British regiments under Marlborough before going to Spain in 1703, 397 of them. (they had had to give their horses away on a previous occasion (to a Dragoon regiment this time)

then..

… other disputes arrose with the same Brigadier Hervey about choosing of the horses. He would not allow the said regiment to choose horses equally with his own, because they were dragoons, though they were told by the General before the said Brigadier they were to charge as horse and to pay the same price for the horses as they did. . . .

not quite the one I was thinking of, but sort of supports the idea, also sounds like on service regiments could struggle to keep a certain type of colour horse.

They had remounts from Ireland, Spain and Portugal during this period.