Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Henry Dodge and the Birth of the U.S. Cavalry -- Chapter 2. Dragoons on the Plains,1834-1835: The First Expeditions -- Chapter 3. 1836: Kearny Takes Command --…
"Presents a narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment, from its inception in 1833 to the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848"-- "Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of…
"Presents a narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment, from its inception in 1833 to the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848"-- "Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of…