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A Dictionary of Military Uniforms. HarperCollins Distribution Services. ISBN 0684151308. Chartrand (1988). Louis XIV's Army. Men-at-Arms No. 203. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-0850458503. Ede-Borrett, Stephen (2009). "Some Notes on the Raising and Origins of Colonel John Okey's Regiment of Dragoons, March to June, 1645".
Charles Augustus May (1818–1864) was an American officer of the United States Army who served in the Mexican War and other campaigns over a 25-year career. He is best known for successfully leading a cavalry charge against Mexican artillery at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma.
The 3rd U.S. Regiment of Dragoons was a United States Army Dragoon regiment raised for one year of service in the Mexican–American War, by Congress on February 11, 1847. [1] It was led by Colonel Edward G. W. Butler , who was appointed from Louisiana .
Mexidracon is unique amongst ornithomimids for possessing extremely lengthened metacarpals. Serrano-Brañas et al. (2025) hypothesized that these long hands may have been allowed it to more efficiently gather vegetation, a function proposed for other herbivorous theropods with long arms and large claws such as the deinocheirid Deinocheirus and therizinosaurs.
Aztec warriors as shown in the 16th century Florentine Codex.Each warrior is brandishing a Maquahuitl. This page from the Codex Mendoza shows the gradual improvements to equipment and tlahuiztli as a warrior progresses through the ranks from commoner to porter to warrior to captor, and later as a noble progressing in the warrior societies from the noble warrior to "Eagle warrior" to "Jaguar ...
Apuntes para la historia de la Guerra entre Mexico y los Estados Unidos. Mexico City. Published by Manuel Payno. 1848. Ramsey, Albert C. The Other Side or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico & the United States. New York, John Wiley. 1850. Roa Barcena, Jose Maria. Recuerdos de la invasion norte-americana. Ed. Antonio Castro Leal.
Manuel Mondragón (1859–1922) was a Mexican military officer who played a prominent role in the Mexican Revolution. He graduated from the Mexican Military Academy as an artillery officer in 1880. He designed the world’s first gas-operated semi-automatic rifle, the M1908 rifle, and a 75mm howitzer.
The inscription reads: On April 15, 1828, in this house was born Captain DANJOU who on April 30, 1863, in Camaron (Mexico), at the head of 66 legionaries of the 3rd Company of the Foreign Regiment, resisted until death the furious assaults of 2000 Mexicans. 3 officers and 49 men were fatally wounded, but the enemy left 300 corpses.