A Private of the 1st or Kings Dragoon Guards, 1812

Aquatint by J C Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, 1812.

The 1st King's Dragoon Guards remained in Britain on garrison duties throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the sole exception of the Waterloo campaign of 1815.

From Charles Hamilton Smith's 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812', published by Colnaghi and Company, 1812-1815.