Dragoon regiments, which were considered ... along with America's desire for more land, the Mexican-American war began in 1846. During the war, the U.S. raised 115,000 troops, of which 73,000 ...

On April 25, 1846 — one year after Florida became a state — the Mexican Army ambushed two dragoon companies ... fight in Cuba during the Spanish-American War that brought fame to Teddy ...

A Mexican general warned that war would start if the American Army kept taking such ... a very promising young officer of the Second Dragoons, was accidentally drowned this morning while ...

For all that it did, the Mexican-American War is a relatively overlooked conflict ... adorned with brass buttons and the wool pants of a dragoon soldier under the command of Gen.

Dragoons in Apacheland ... between two equally committed but opposing societies from the end of the Mexican-American War to the beginning of the Civil War. Under the banner of Manifest Destiny ...

As the bloody battles of the Mexican-American War were raging in Mexico proper, a small group of American dragoons under Gen. Stephen Kearney was conquering New Mexico. Heroism, valor and ...

Our nation’s war dead ... the Mexican-American War and conquest of the state. Among them was Capt. Benjamin D. Moore, a 36-year-old from Paris, Kentucky serving in the Army dragoons ...

After the Mexican-American War, noncommissioned officers found themselves ... a young man named Percival Lowe enlisted into the U.S. Army's elite Dragoon unit. Lowe use his knowledge of the ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...

The U.S.-Mexican War will be commemorated on Saturday ... Mariano Arista surged across, surprising a company of American dragoons at a small ranch named Carracitos. Eleven U.S. soldiers died ...