Talk:British light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars

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Name issue

When I created the article the name seemed fine. But now that I'm looking at it, should it be corrected to "of the Napoleonic Wars"? Please chime in with differing views, because I'm really 50/50 on this. @Dormskirk -> tag because you're the name-changing guy and @Buckshot06 -> regarding "of the" or "during the" disambiguation. J-Man11 (talk) 00:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - "of" does sound better to me. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 00:45, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

During. They are "of" the British Army, really. But truly it hardly matters. Don't waste time on these kinds of small alterations to article titles. Buckshot06 (talk) 06:39, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Background: some notable errors

'Pre-Napoleonic. Background' :

"in 1763 the 15th Dragoons were converted into 'light dragoons', as were the 17th–20th"

There was no regiment of 15th Dragoons to be converted; ditto 17th-20th. In 1759 there were only fourteen regiments of dragoons in service. In that year, the 15th (Light) Dragoons or Elliot's Light Horse, were formed from scratch, as were the 16th, 17th (disbanded 1763), 18th (17th from 1763) & 19th (18th from 1763). Two more light dragoon regiments, 20th & 21st, existed briefly from 1760-63.

In 1768 the first dragoon regiment, the 12th, converted to Light dragoons followed by the 14th in 1768, then the 7th to 11th & 13th in the course of the AWI 1775-83. Other regiments of light dragoons were raised and disbanded at war's end

"In 1806, the 7th, 10th, and 15th Dragoons were also "converted" - or rather "re-costumed" - to light dragoons."

Presumably that should read " "converted" - or rather "re-costumed" - to hussars."

In fact the 7th Light Dragoons did not make that change until December 1807.

'Napoleonic Wars. Background':

"In 1803 the 10th Light Dragoons "converted to hussars".

Perhaps a typo. This change took place in 1806. (See above)

"old bicorns of the light dragoons and the Tarletons of the hussars "

Light dragoon regiments never wore 'bicornes.' From their first formation, they wore helmets. The 'Tarleton' style of 'helmet-cap' was adopted during the 1780s. As far as I am aware the Tarleton was never part of hussar uniform in regular regiments.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278822/page/n23/mode/2up?q=hussars https://archive.org/details/cihm_48346/page/n25/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/cihm_48375/page/n83/mode/2up JF42 (talk) 04:33, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]