Welcome to the Museum of The King's Royal Hussars
Visit HorsePower, the Museum of The King’s Royal Hussars, with its stunning displays of life size models, inter-active exhibits, medals, swords, magnificent uniforms and fascinating photographs which show how the Cavalry of horse and sabre developed into the modern armoured regiment of today.
Trace the history of three famous regiments over a period of 300 years and marvel at the great heroes who won the Victoria Cross for their valour. The dramatic exploits of men who fought in the Peninsula War, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the two World Wars are revealed and much more besides.
You will find all of this in Hampshire’s only museum of Cavalry, located within the grand setting of Peninsula Square, Winchester, a site full of military heritage.
Museum Highlight (December 2011)
The Scouts
This evocative winter scene which was painted by WB Wollen in 1905, hangs in The King’s Royal Hussars Museum in Winchester. It is entitled ‘The Scouts’ and depicts a patrol of the 10th Hussars during the Peninsula War. The 10th Hussars took part in the campaign during the period 1808-1814.
In October 1808, the Tenth embarked from Portsmouth for Corunna and by the end of the year the Regiment had fought the French cavalry in three engagements at Sahagun, Mayorga and Benevente. In the following January, the British force including the Regiment was evacuated from Corunna. The Tenth, who had embarked from England with 600 horses, had to shoot most of them to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy. When the Regiment arrived back in Brighton in February 1809, they had only 30 horses left.
In 1813, the 10th Hussars embarked again from Portsmouth and landed at Lisbon in February. They fought throughout the Peninsula campaign, notably at the battles of Morales, Vittoria, Orthez and Toulouse, until the end of hostilities in France in April 1814.
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