Current Lancer Units
Some modern armored cavalry units are still designated as lancer regiments for historical reasons. There are examples in the armies of Spain (the King's Lancers), United Kingdom (9th/12th Royal Lancers and Queen's Royal Lancers), India (2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) and 20th Lancers), Belgium, Portugal (2nd Lancers Regiment), Pakistan, Italy and Australia (12th/16th Hunter River Lancers, 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers), Argentina (2nd Tank Cavalry Regiment "General Paz's Lancers", Argentine Army) and Chile (5th Cavalry Regiment "Lancers", Chilean Army). The elite troops of the Colombian National Army are called "lanceros". The Italian Lancieri di Montebello (8th Cavalry Regiment) occasionally parade honor guards and other dismounted ceremonial detachments in the regiment's nineteenth century blue uniforms, armed with the lances carried until 1920. Although not classified as lancers, the Brazilian Army's Dragões da Independência (1st Guards Regiment) and the Portuguese National Republican Guard's cavalry squadrons carry lances on mounted parades, as do ceremonial cavalry regiments in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
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