Bucks County Dragoons
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The Bucks County Dragoons was a British provincial military unit raised for service during the American Revolutionary War
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It was raised in Philadelphia in February, 1778. It returned with the army to New York in 1778. It was attached to the Queen's Rangers
for the 1779 campaign and to the British Legion for the 1780 campaign. It was permanently merged into the British Legion in 1782.
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
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It was raised in Philadelphia in February, 1778. It returned with the army to New York in 1778. It was attached to the Queen's Rangers
Queen's Rangers
The Queen's Rangers was a military unit who fought on the Loyalist side during the American War of Independence. After the war they moved to Nova Scotia and disbanded, but were reformed again in Upper Canada before disbanding again, in 1802, a decade prior to the War of 1812.-French and Indian...
for the 1779 campaign and to the British Legion for the 1780 campaign. It was permanently merged into the British Legion in 1782.