HISTORY OF THE 8th KING'S ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS 1693-1927

Founded, like so many distinguished units of the British Army, in the 1690s to take part in William III's wars with France's Louis XIV in its native Ireland and elsewhere, the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars were thereafter at the forefront of Britain's wars in Europe, the Empire and at home. Volume 1 begins with the regiment's role in the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, the American War of Independence and its part in the Peninsular War and the Maratha wars in India. Volume 2 opens with the Hussars' part in the Crimean War - including an account of the Charge of the Light Brigade by a participant. The regiment was stationed in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, and energetically took part in its suppression. It also played a role in the Second Afghan War. As the 20th Century dawned, the Hussars were sent to South Africa for the Boer War, and were on the Western Front as un-horsed infantry in the Great War. The second volume also has appendices listing the roll of the regiment's colonels - who include Sir Banastre Tarleton ("Bloody Ban"), the swashbuckling (and successful) commander of the mounted British Legion during the American War of Independence - its other officers, sporting achievements etc. Both volumes are also illustrated with a range of full-colour and black and white photographs, maps etc. Reprint of the 1928 original edition.