title: 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons
text: # 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons
  
  Two cavalry regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons:
  
  * 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (1759), (1759-1763)
  * 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (17th Lancers), raised as 18th Dragoons in 1759 and redesignated as a lancer regiment in 1861.
  