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Scott Craft is a direct descendant of Loyalist John T Craft who served in the volunteer cavalry in Col. DeLancey’s Regiment, is commanding officer of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) at Sussex, Kings, NB, the oldest armoured unit of the Canadian Armed Forces, originally founded as the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry in 1848 by the regimentation of a number of independent cavalry troops whose history goes back to cavalry units that served in the American Revolution, in particular to 1775 in the Colony of Virginia, where a Captain John Saunders raised a troop of cavalry (Saunders’ Horse) at his own expense to fight for the Crown against the colonial rebels, which unusual troop included riflemen, grenadiers, artillery and cavalry and never knew defeat until the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1783. In September 1783, Saunders’ horse as an entity was dispatched to New Brunswick where a large number of these Loyalist solders settled in the Saint John and Kennebecasis valleys. The New Brunswick Militia Act of 1825 permitted the raising of cavalry troops by voluntary enlistment for attachment to the various county infantry battalions. Many amongst those who enlisted in these troops were the sons and grandsons of those who served with John Saunders in Virginia. By authority of Militia General Order Number One on 4 April 1848, eleven independent troops were united to from a regiment entitled the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. It is this date that is officially recognized as the formation of the Regiment. The regiment was the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North America.
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Est 1960 - (64 years)
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