Hat 8288 Colonial British Dragoons

After the end of the Crimean War in 1856, the British Army took part in many smaller or larger colonial military conflicts, including the suppression of the Sipaya uprising (1857-1858), the conflict in Sudan that ended with the Battle of Omdurman ( 1898) or the First and Second Boer Wars (1880-1881 and 1899-1902). All these conflicts had a significant impact on the British Army, and forced significant changes in the British cavalry, including dragoons. Just before the outbreak of the Crimean War, the British cavalry consisted of a dozen regiments, including 7 Guard dragoons regiments, 4 dragoons regiments and 4 light dragoons regiments. It is worth adding that light dragoons were treated as light cavalry, similar to hussars and lancers. However, after the Crimean War, as well as after the suppression of the Sipaj uprising, the British dragoons regiments changed. First of all, they began to be equipped with threaded and recharged cavalry carabiners. The number of Dragoon regiments - in the British army - has also changed somewhat. In 1881, at the time of the outbreak of the Mahdi uprising in Sudan, the British Army had seven Guard dragoons regiments that made up the heavy cavalry and three dragoons regiments that were perceived as light cavalry. It should also be added that, despite the change of weapons, the dragoon regiments were still trained primarily for the charge of white weapons, and the shooting training was treated in the 80s and 90s of the 19th century by far secondary importance. On the one hand, this translated into a great charge (including the participation of the 7th Guards Dragoon Regiment) at Kassasin in 1882, and on the other - it had a disastrous effect on the efficiency of the entire British cavalry, including dragoons, during the Second Boer War (1899- 1902).