3-028-132 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A trooper in the Royal Regiment of Horse, circa 1684, (1909). 'As the date to which this engraving belongs, Charles II. was King, and had just escaped assassination by the conspirators in the Rye House Plot. The Royal Regiment of Horse at this time had sometimes to patrol highways between London and Windsor. From the illustrated edition of "The British Standing Army", by Colonel Clifford Walton'. Published in "Illustrated London News", 1909.