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 ...

Between 1775 and 1783, American rebels battled the British for ... The ball is then shot out from the pistol. The Hessian dragoon pistol gets its name from the fact the long, large-caliber guns ...

Yet, during the earliest days of the American Revolution—before independence ... depended upon available supply. The American dragoon pattern helmets were inspired—likely even supplied ...

You see this fable repeated in slogans from the Tea Party, the latest in a long tradition of activists attempting to dragoon the ... they analyze the American Revolution through the lens of ...