When well-trained and equipped, a determined light horseman of the American Revolution was a fearsome combined-arms foe. The adroitness of a British Light Dragoon using all of his arms is ...

By this stage of the war, he added, the British had enough ... leader of the Black Dragoons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Francis Marion, the American "Swamp Fox" Public domain via Wikimedia ...

click image for close-up After the revolutionary war ... Morgan's outnumbered troops routed the British dragoons under Colonel Banastre Tarleton, known as "The Butcher" or "Bloody Ben" for ...

In 1775, war broke out between the British and the American colonists. By 1776, the colonists had declared themselves independent and in 1783, following a prolonged and bloody war, Britain was ...