Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaarahia te rerenga tuatahi ki te taitara 22nd Dragoons i te tau 1716. I mohiotia hoki ko te Regiment of Dragoons a Viscount Mountjoy, i puta i runga i te Rarangi o te Ope i te 16 o Hui-tanguru 1716, engari i whakakorehia i te tau 1718. I te tau 1779, i whakaarahia e Hoani, te Ariki Sheffield he rerenga dragoon marama i whakaahuatia ko te 22nd (Light) Dragoons, engari i whakakorehia tenei i te tau 1783. I te 24 o Hui-tanguru 1794, i whakaarahia e William, Viscount Feilding te ope taua e whai ake nei ki te whakamahi i te taitara 22nd (Light) Dragoons; he roa ake te roa o tenei ope taua, i whakakorehia i te 1802 me te timatanga o te rangimarie. Heoi, ko te 25th Dragoons (i whakaarahia mo te mahi i Inia e F E Gwyn i te 9 o Poutu-te-rangi 1794) i whakahoutia hei 22nd (Light) Dragoons i taua tau. Ko tenei 22nd (Maama) Dragoons regiment i mahi puta noa i nga Pakanga Napoleonic, i tiimata i te tau 1803. I mahi te ope taua ki Inia, i noho ai tae noa ki te tau 1813. I tēnei wā i whai wāhi ia ki te British
Te whakaekenga o Java (1811). I whakakorehia te rerenga i te tau 1820.