Battle Honours
The KGL received these battle honours:
- Peninsular War
- Waterloo
- Battle of Venta del Pozo (1st and 2nd Light Infantry Battalion)
- Garcia Hernandez (near Salamanca) (1st Regiment of Dragoons )
- El Bodon (1st Regiment of Hussars)
- Barossa, near Cádiz, Spain (2nd Regiment of Hussars)
- Göhrde (3rd Regiment of Hussars)
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