page_title: Royal Scots Greys
section_title: Battle honours
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Scots Greys / Battle honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Napoleonic imperial eagle from the standard of the French 45th Regiment, captured single-handedly by Ensign Ewart during the cavalry charge of the Royal Scots Greys at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The cost of an eagle: "One made a thrust at my groin. I parried it off and cut him through the head. A lancer came at me - I threw the lance off by my right side and cut him through the chin and upwards through the teeth. Next, a footsoldier fired at me, and then charged me with his bayonet, which I also had the good luck to parry, and then I cut him down through the head." -- Ensign Ewart describing his capture of the eagle.
context_page_description: The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers to form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
  The regiment's history began in 1678, when three independent troops of Scots Dragoons were raised. In 1681, these troops were regimented to form The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, numbered the 4th Dragoons in 1694. They were already mounted on grey horses by this stage and were already being referred to as the Grey Dragoons. In 1707, they were renamed The Royal North British Dragoons, but were already being referred to as the Scots Greys. In 1713, they were renumbered the 2nd Dragoons as part of a deal between the commands of the English Army and the Scottish Army when the two were in the process of being unified into the British Army. They were also sometimes referred to, during the first Jacobite uprising, as Portmore's Dragoons. In 1877, their nickname was finally made official when they became the 2nd Dragoons, which was inverted in 1921 to The Royal Scots Greys. They kept this title until 2 July 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers, forming the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
context_section_description: Battle honours of the Scots Greys:
  War of Spanish Succession: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet
  War of Austrian Succession: Dettingen
  Seven Years' War: Warburg, Willems
  Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo
  Crimean War: Balaclava, Sevastopol
  Second Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg
  First World War: Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915; Arras 1917; Amiens; Somme 1918; Hindenburg Line; Pursuit to Mons; France and Flanders 1914–18. Mons; Messines 1914; Gheluvelt; Neuve Chapelle; St Julien; Bellewaarde; Scarpe 1917; Cambrai 1917, 1918; Lys; Hazebrouck; Albert 1918; Bapaume 1918; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir.
  Second World War: Hill 112; Falaise; Hochwald; Aller; Bremen; Merjayun; Alam el Halfa; El Alamein; Nofilia; Salerno; Italy 1943; Caen; Venlo Pocket; North-West Europe 1944-5; Syria 1941; El Agheila; Advance on Tripoli; North Africa 1942-3; Battipaglia; Volturno Crossing.
caption: The Eagle of the French 45th Regiment, captured by the Royal Scots Greys
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