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A number of dragoon officers played a leading role in initiating the Mexican War of Independence in 1810, including Ignacio Allende, Juan Aldama and Agustin de Iturbide, who briefly served as Emperor of México from 1822 to 1823.
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 .
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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.
The Flag of the Three Guarantees of the Trigarante Army is considered the first official national flag of Mexico.It was the flag of the royalist and insurgent armed forces that united under the so-called Plan of Iguala, and was the work of the author of the Mexican independence Agustín de Iturbide, made in the city of Iguala by the tailor José Magdaleno Ocampo in the year 1821, in what ...
Many of its officers and men came from the Battalion of Mounted Rangers which had taken part in the Black Hawk War. The color of the Dragoons was Dragoon yellow (orange-yellow) and a gold eight-pointed star on the encircling belt was the insignia of the Dragoons until 1851. The motto translates to "Courageous and Faithful."
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.