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This is often cited as an image of the 1st Hussars KGL. Is it actually an image of the 11th LD? They were brigaded with the KGL Hussars in 1811.
Does anybody know which of the Hussar regiments with Moore had the new Paget carbine and which had the older Elliot model? I gather the 7th Hussars would have had the new model, given the Paget connection, but I'm particularly interested in the 18th Hussars.
Wellington’s Light Division and the Invasion of Spain: The Sieges and Battles of 1812
Robert Burnham Publisher : Frontline Books
Publication date : December 30, 2025
Print length : 296 pages
ISBN: 9781399036887
After evicting the French from Portugal in 1811, the Duke of Wellington went on the offensive, having decided to attack into Spain and liberate the country. To do this, however, he first had to capture the key border fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. By doing this he would secure the main routes into Portugal and protect his supply lines.
Translator: Tom Corkett Editor: Zahira Ransome Senior Editor: Mark Mellor
Napoleonica
Pages 93 to 164
In 1809, the troops who had been captured as prisoners of war at Bailén in July 1808, and then held in hulks in Cádiz (itself a violation of the terms of the capitulation treaty signed at Andújar), were exiled to the Balearic Islands. Ostensibly for quarantine reasons, they were offloaded on the uninhabited island of Cabrera, near Mallorca. The prison island subsequently housed several other contingents of French prisoners taken during the Spanish struggle for independence. The prisoners of war who survived were freed in May 1814 and repatriated to France over the following weeks....
The 11th Light Dragoons had buff facings and the 'regulation feather' on the cap of white over a red base. The details visible in the OP illustration indicate the red fadings of the 1st KGL and a rather faded depiction of the regulation feather with red base only just discernible.