2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
Overview
 
The 2nd Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment
Cavalry regiments of the British Army
There are currently nine regular cavalry regiments of the British Army, with two tank regiments provided by the Royal Tank Regiment, traditionally classed alongside the cavalry, for a total of eleven regiments. Of these, five serve as armoured regiments, and five as formation reconnaissance...

 in the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

, first raised in 1685 by King James II
James II of England
James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is the senior cavalry regiment, and therefore senior regiment, of the line of the British Army...

 in 1959.
The regiment was first raised from the neighbourhood of London as the Earl of Peterborough
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, KG, PC, FRS was an English soldier, peer and courtier.-Early life:Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough...

's Regiment of Horse
in 1682, by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 3rd Regiment of Horse.

When James II's throne was tottering, and William of Orange daily expected, the regiment was ordered to Torbay, when their helmets and cuirasses were deposited in the Tower, the officers having leave to wear the latter if they chose.

On the accession of William and Mary, the Bays, then designated Villiers' Horse, embarked for Ireland under Marshal Schomberg.
Quotations

I know its bacon... but what have you done to it?! Joanne Greenwald... the girl with the antennae on her face?

I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.

She only speaks French, Roy. She doesn't speak imbecile.

[why he can't pay the paper boy] Uh, my brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and my grandmother, she dropped acid and freaked out and hijaked a schoolbus full of...penguins.

I gotta go, the Christmas tree is on fire. [hangs up the phone.]

I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years! I'm no dummy!

This is pure snow. It's everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

Dying when you're not really sick is really sick, you know. Really!

[giving skiing instructions] Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Beth Truss: She dates the basketball team. Not certain members of the team, Lane, the whole team!

 
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