The 1st Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army regiment that has its antecedents in the early 19th century in the formation of the United States Regiment of Dragoons. To this day, the unit's special
1964 painting of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons in 1836 by H. Charles McBarron Jr.
1st Cavalry at Brandy Station, February 1864
1866 picture of model showing correct uniform of a Company "A" 1st US Cavalry SGT wearing Hardee hat
An M48 tank of "A" Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry, is stuck in mud and water during an operation 15 km northeast of Hill 29, 2 August 1968
First Dragoon Expedition
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The First Dragoon Expedition of 1834 was an exploratory mission of the United States Army into the southwestern Great Plains of the United States. It was the first official contact between the America
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…Colonel Dodge to winter in the vicinity of Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory, where they remained until June 1834. Then, the regiment was sent on the First Dragoon Expedition, or the Pawnee Expedition, during which, although it ended in September, a full one-fourth of the officers and men died of fever. For the winter…
General Henry Leavenworth the commander of the United States Regiment of Dragoons
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen W. Kearny was second in command of the Dragoons and later died in the Mexican–American War
First Lieutenant Jefferson Davis was in command of Dragoon company F who later became the President of the Confederate States of America.