In this period, regiments were considered the personal property of their Colonel and changed names when transferred. In 1681, an additional three troops were raised and added to the existing three to create what became the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons. Some of the more extreme Presbyterians took up arms in June 1679, and the dragoons were present at Bothwell Bridge. These were the first mounted units raised for the Crown in Scotland and were used by John Graham, Viscount Dundee to suppress prohibited Presbyterian assemblies or Conventicles in South-West Scotland. On, two troops were raised by Captains John Strachan and John Inglis with a third under Captain Viscount Kingstoun added on 23 September. The original uniform called for the troopers to wear grey coats, but there is no record of any requirement that the horses be a particular colour. Troopers were equipped with matchlock muskets, sergeants and corporals with halberds and pistols only the officers carried swords, though Lieutenants were armed with a partisan. The Royal Scots Greys began life as three troops of dragoons this meant that while mounted as cavalry, their armament was closer to that used by infantry units.

7.2 1914: Race to the sea and First Ypres.

7.1 1914: Mons, the Retreat, the Marne, the Aisne.

6 1857–1905: Home service, Egypt, and the 2nd Anglo-Boer War.

5 1816–1856: Years of peace and the Crimean War.

2 1693–1714: Grey Horses, Red Coats, and War of Spanish Succession.

They kept this title until 2 July 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers, forming the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. In 1877, their nickname was finally made official when they became the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), which was inverted in 1921 to The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). They were also sometimes referred to, during the first Jacobite uprising, as Portmore's Dragoons. In 1713, they were renumbered the 2nd Dragoons as part of a deal between the commands of the English Army and the Scottish Army when the two were in the process of being unified into the British Army. In 1707, they were renamed The Royal North British Dragoons ( North Britain then being the envisaged common name for Scotland), but were already being referred to as the Scots Greys. They were already mounted on grey horses by this stage and were already being referred to as the Grey Dragoons. In 1681, these troops were regimented to form The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, numbered the 4th Dragoons in 1694. The regiment's history began in 1678, when three independent troops of Scots Dragoons were raised. The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) to form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys).

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