Bucks County Dragoons

Bucks County Dragoons
Active 1778-1782
Country  Great Britain
Allegiance  British Army
Branch British provincial unit later, merged with British Legion (auxiliary troops)
Type dragoons (mounted infantry)
Role cavalry, maneuver warfare, light infantry
Size ?
Nickname(s) Bucks County Light Dragoons
Engagements

American Revolutionary War

Commanders
Notable
commanders

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton

General Lord Cornwallis

Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton

The Bucks County Dragoons also, known as the Bucks County Light Dragoons were a British provincial, military unit, raised for Loyalist service, during the American Revolutionary War.

Dragoons formed

The "Bucks County Dragoons" were raised, in Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, in February, 1778.

Campaigns

The unit 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 also, known as the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition and later attached to Banastre Tarleton's British Legion, under Lord Cornwallis, in the 1780-1782 Carolinas Campaign.

Merged into British Legion

The Bucks County Dragoons were permanently merged, into the British Legion, in 1782.

See also

References


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