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The Texas Cavalry: A History of the 56th Cavalry Brigade
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A Look into Union and Confederate Cavalry: A comparative study of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade and Ector’s Brigade
<p>This comparative study explores the use of cavalry by the Union armed forces and Confederate armed forces during the American Civil War. This study examines the Michigan Cavalry Brigade and Ector’s Brigade of dismounted cavalry. The examination took a look at factors including weapons and …
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Mosby's Rangers: the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.
… Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's 1st Regiment Virginia Cavalry. By March, 1863, Mosby's rangers had won the hearts of the Confederacy in the daring capture of Union Brig. Gen. E. H. Stoughton. During June, 1863, the first of eight companies was formally organized under the authority of the Partisan …
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Newspaper coverage of cavalry raiders during the American Civil War
… Western Theater was more suited to long range cavalry operations. Between 1863 and 1865, several bodies of Union forces pushed into Alabama, doing their part to hinder the Confederate war effort in that state. At the same time, Confederate cavalry raiders were harassing northern troops in …
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"Smile and Carry On:" Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, 1914-1918
… arm of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the Cavalry. The vast majority of Great War historians have ignored the presence of mounted troops on the Western Front, or have written off the entire cavalry arm with a single word – ‘obsolete.’ However, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and the Canadian …
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The Management of Change - Mechanizing the British Regular and Household Cavalry Regiments 1918 -1942
The mechanization of British Cavalry regiments took place between the two World Wars and on into 1942. This thesis describes the process by which horsed cavalrymen were re-trained in armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and the experiences of some of the regiments managing this change. Extensive use …
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Colonel Thomas T. Munford and the last cavalry operations of the Civil War in Virginia
… served as a Colonel with the Second Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute and a veteran of First and Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Five Forks, Munford lacked only the official approval of the Confederate Congress to receive his …
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Custer's Last Drag: An Examination of Tobacco Use Among the Seventh Cavalry During the Nineteenth Century
Tobacco has played an integral role in global history, and there are numerous historical records related to tobacco use over the past five hundred years. The odontological evidence recovered from the Custer National Battlefield infers a high frequency of tobacco use within the Seventh Calvary, yet …
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Custer's Last Drag: An Examination of Tobacco Use Among the Seventh Cavalry During the Nineteenth Century
Tobacco has played an integral role in global history, and there are numerous historical records related to tobacco use over the past five hundred years. The odontological evidence recovered from the Custer National Battlefield infers a high frequency of tobacco use within the Seventh Calvary, yet …
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The price of freedom: the battle of Saltville and the massacre of the Fifth United States Colored Cavalry
… prisoners from the 5th United States Colored Cavalry has been a neglected and misinterpreted topic. The narrative follows the Federal advance from Kentucky to southwest Virginia including Confederate delaying actions. The work studies the Southern victory and the massacre in detail and …
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Fire and the Sword: the British Army and the Arme Blanche controversy 1871-1921
The controversy was over the role of Cavalry in future war. The generally held view is that the arme blanche charge was obviously obsolete, and that Cavalrymen clung to it for social and sentimental reasons; British military leaders of the First World War are therefore condemned for their belief in …
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Brigadier General James Dearing, C.S.A
… at Gettysburg, Pickett transferred him to the cavalry and recommended his promotion to lieutenant colonel. In April, 1864, Dearing’s cavalry overwhelmed the Federals at Plymouth, North Carolina, earning Dearing a promotion to brigadier general. The Confederate attack against New Bern was …
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Operation Iraqi Freedom Two: March 2004 to March 2005
… Crewman on an M1A2sep Abrams tank during 1st Cavalry Division's one year deployment to Baghdad, Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, designated O.I.F.2, or the second American rotation in Operation Iraqi Freedom. What follows is a series of short stories where I attempt to paint a realistic …
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The evolution and development of the Australian Light Horse, 1860-1945
… of the war much of the Light Horse had become cavalry. This discovery in turn meant that during the inter-war period cavalry continued to be part of the army. Analysed in depth also are the many organisational changes that affected the mounted branch during its existence. Some of these …
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Completing the Circle around Rabaul: The Seizure of the Admiralties, February to May 1944.
… examines the operational history of the First Cavalry Divisions conquest of the Admiralty Islands during World War Two as the final phase of Operation Cartwheel. Cartwheel called a two pronged attack; one prong in New Guinea, by-passing large Japanese garrisons and the other in the northern …
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"The War Comes First": Lt. Col. Francis Carroll Grevemberg and the Development of a World War II Antiaircraft Artillery Officer
… II, the War Department transformed Grevemberg's cavalry regiment into a coastal artillery battalion with antiaircraft capability. During World War II, Grevemberg saw continuous action in the North Africa, Italy and Southern France. He regularly wrote letters from battlefields to his wife Dorothy. …
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Operationalising Uncertainty : The US Military and the New Spatiality of New Security.
… Based around fieldwork conducted with 1st Cavalry (US Army) after its deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom Phase II, this thesis argues for the exploration of security studies through the spatial operation of violence. Emphasising spatiality, it is argued, allows for an openness - and …
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The Carrizal Affair: a Study of United States Diplomatic Relations With Mexico, 1916
… to this threat, Pershing ordered two troops of cavalry to scout Carranzista activity east of his main camp at Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua. On June 21, 1916, this force engaged a force four times its number at the village of Carrizal. The versions vary as to exactly what happened between Captain …
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The influence of the Boer War (1899 - 1902) on the tactical development of the Regular British Army 1902 - 1914
… cornerstones for infantry, artillery and cavalry throughout the pre-First World War period and shaped the performance of the B.E.F. during the early battles of 1914. The experience of combat against well armed opposition in the Boer War prompted the British Army to develop improved tactics …
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