Up to 1838 The 1st (or) Kings Dragoon Guards had campaigned no further afield than Southern or Northern Europe and then only for a brief periods. In 1837 trouble flared up among the French in Canada and the Government had become so worried by these risings that a detachment of Regular Cavalry was despatched to reinforce the Infantry there and in 1838 three Squadrons of the 1st (or) Kings Dragoon Guards, accompanied by 270 horses, and the 7th Hussars disembarked at Quebec.
Although the first and major part of the uprising had been suppressed there still remained the exhausting, if unspectacular duty of rounding up scattered rebel bands who posed a treat both near Montreal and around St Johns in New Brunswick.
In these very remote, rugged and wooded parts of Canada the dissidents could easily slip across the border into The United States, so the Cavalry was always on the move. Their task being even more difficult by the onset of winter conditions. After the rising had finally been quelled, with very little loss of life. A tense situation continued and the Kings Dragoon Guards were retained in Canada for more than four years.
