July 3, 2007
Dragoon Fever: Dragoon Officers, Class Standing, and West Point 1841-46 There once was a time when a regiment of the United States Army captured the public’s fascination of the era in much in the same fashion as did space exploration programs conducted 135 years later. The First Regiment of Dragoons, formed in 1833, inherited the [...]
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January 18, 2005
The typical Dragoon of the Mexican War era was a moving arsenal and military depot. Secured by a white buff leather sling over his left shoulder hung a .52 caliber Hall carbine a percussion breech-loading smooth-bore carbine of limited range and impact. In his pommel holster was a single shot Model 1836 flintlock horse pistol [...]
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