Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Brigadier-Janar James Dormer ne ya kafa wannan rundunar a kudancin Ingila a matsayin James Dormer's Regiment of Dragoons, kuma an sanya shi a matsayin 14th Dragoons, a cikin 1715 a matsayin wani ɓangare na amsawa ga tawayen Jacobite. Ya shiga cikin yakin Preston a watan Nuwamba 1715 bayan da ya kori wasu 'yan tawaye zuwa Lancaster Gaol. An tura rundunar zuwa Ireland a 1717 kuma ta kasance a can har zuwa 1742. Ya yi yaƙi amma ya kasance gaba ɗaya a yakin Prestonpans a watan Satumba na 1745 sannan ya shiga cikin bala'in bala'i.
Yaƙin Falkirk Muir a cikin Janairu 1746 yayin tashin hankalin Jacobite na 1745. Rundunar ta koma Ireland a shekara ta 1747 kuma an sake canza sunan ta a matsayin 14th Regiment of Dragoons a 1751. Ya zama rundunar dragoon mai sauƙi a cikin 1776, a matsayin 14th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, kuma an raba sojoji biyu kuma suka shiga 8th Light Dragoons a cikin Low Countries a cikin 1794 don yin aiki a cikin Flanders Campaign. Daga nan aka ware sojoji bakwai aka tura su zuwa mulkin mallaka na Faransa na Saint-Domingue a 1795 yayin Juyin Juya Halin Haiti; sun shiga cikin wani aiki a Mirebalais a watan Yunin 1797 wanda suka taimaka wajen kayar da tsoffin bayi 1,200 wadanda ke nuna juyayi ga sabon tsarin mulki a Faransa.