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The King's American Dragoons primarily served on Long Island in 1782 and early 1783, [2] where they earned local notoriety for destroying a church and burial ground in order to erect Fort Golgotha in Huntington. [3] They were evacuated from New York and resettled in Saint John, New Brunswick, in July 1783. [4] They were disbanded there in ...
The Bucks County Dragoons, also known as the Bucks County Light Dragoons, were an American Loyalist (American Revolution) unit during the American Revolutionary War.They were raised in Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, in February, 1778 and returned with the British Army to New York in 1778.The Dragoons were attached to John Simcoe's Queen's Rangers for the 1779 campaign, and later ...
A 1796 map showing the strategies of the opposing armies at the Battle of White Plains during which Harcourt commanded the 16th Light Dragoons. Field Marshal William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt, GCB (20 March 1743 – 17 June 1830) was a British nobleman and British Army officer.
3rd American Regiment (formerly the New York Volunteers) (1776-1783) 4th American Regiment (formerly the King's American Regiment, placed on British establishment, in 1782, possibly as the 110th Regiment of Foot) (1776-1783) 5th American Regiment (formerly the British Legion, placed on British establishment, in 1782, as Tarleton's Dragoons ...
4th Continental Light Dragoons 4th Legionary Corps; Active: 1777-1783: Allegiance: Continental Congress of the United States: Type: Dragoon: Size: regiment of six troops 116 men in 1781: Part of: Continental Army: Nickname(s) Moylan's Horse: Colors: scarlet coats faced with blue (1777) green coats faced red (1778) blue coats faced red (1782 ...
1778 Roster of Continental Light Dragoons. Each troop consisted of 32 privates, 1 armorer, 1 farrier, 1 trumpeter, 4 corporals, 1 quartermaster sergeant, a drill or an orderly sergeant, a cornet, a lieutenant, and a captain—a total of 280 men and officers. Whether any of the four regiments of Dragoons was ever at full strength is uncertain.
Pulaski's Legion was a cavalry and infantry regiment raised on March 28, 1778 at Baltimore, Maryland under the command of Polish-born General Casimir Pulaski and Hungarian nobleman Michael Kovats de Fabriczy for their service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
The Ambush of Geary, also known as the Amwell Skirmish, was a skirmish of the American Revolutionary War fought on 14 December 1776 in Amwell Township of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Cornet Francis Geary, the leader of a company of dragoons, was shot in an ambush set up by local militiamen led by Captain John Schenck.