Dillon's Regiment (French: Régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite...
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Lord Mountcashel, Butler, Feilding, O'Brien, and Dillon's Regiment, commanded by Arthur Dillon. The French reformed them and disbanded Butler's and Feilding's...
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Viscount, was a Colonel in the French Army, but Dillon's Regiment was disbanded in 1793 due to the turmoils of the French Revolution. His son Charles, the...
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Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon (1705–1787) was an Irish peer and a soldier in French service. He was the colonel proprietor of Dillon's Regiment, an...
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List of military units named after people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Saladin Brigade – named after Saladin. Dillon's Regiment (France) – named after Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon. Dimitrov Battalion – named after Bulgarian...
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article. On 25 August 1767, at the age of 16, he became colonel of Dillon's Regiment taking over from his father who had been absentee colonel for twenty...
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Arthur Dillon, Count Dillon (1670–1733) was a Jacobite soldier from Ireland who served as colonel of Dillon's Regiment in the Irish Brigade in French service...
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Arthur Dillon (who also had a brother named Theobald). He entered Dillon's Regiment as a cadet in 1761, gradually rose to be a lieutenant-colonel (1780)...
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Stuart (mostly foreign troops) Minorca Regiment Régiment de Roll (French royalist/emigre) Dillon's Regiment (French royalist/emigre) 6th Brigade, commanded...
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stems from Arthur Dillon (1750–1794), a soldier with Lafayette's troops in the American War of Independence. Serving with Dillon's Regiment, of the Irish...
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