{"id":1626,"date":"2014-09-25T22:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/?page_id=1626"},"modified":"2023-01-02T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:16:48","slug":"origins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/rch-history\/origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins \u2013 EARLY 1800s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alignLeft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1629 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoyalMontrealCavalryTrooper-175x300.jpg\" alt=\"RoyalMontrealCavalryTrooper\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" \/>The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) trace a direct history to the Montreal volunteer cavalry formed in the early 1800&#8217;s known as the Royal Montreal Cavalry. The amalgamation of two famous Montreal regiments of cavalry the 6th Duke of Connaught&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars and the 17th Duke of York&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars became effective September 15, 1958. The amalgamated regiment of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps was designated the &#8220;Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)&#8221; and is one of the two oldest units of Volunteer Cavalry in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignLeft\">The present Regiment consists of five cavalry and one armoured formation: the Royal Montreal Cavalry, the 5th Dragoons, the 6th Duke of Connaught&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars, the 11th Argenteuil Rangers, the 17th duke of York&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars and the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) trace a direct history to the Montreal volunteer cavalry formed in the early 1800&#8217;s known as the Royal Montreal Cavalry. The amalgamation of two famous Montreal regiments of cavalry the 6th Duke of Connaught&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars and the 17th Duke of York&#8217;s Royal Canadian Hussars became effective September 15, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"parent":356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1626","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1626\/revisions\/13397"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rch.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}