IV Continental Dragoon


REGIMENTAL HISTORY

The Commander with a Brown Bess Carbine

Elements of the Fourth Continental Light Dragoons were detached to all Continental Field Generals and participated in almost every major and many minor engagements in the war from 1777 to the end of the war in 1783. The 4th Dragoons had the honor to serve in both the Northern and Southern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War. The entire regiment or elements (a squadron, a troop or detachments) of the regiment are cited as serving in the following actions or being stationed at the following places at the dates indicated.

Date/Time period Location or Place of the action Officer in Charge or cited
June 24, 1777 Woodbridge, New Jersey Col Moylan
June 28, 1777 Short Hills, New Jersey Col Moylan
Sept 11 - 15, 1777 Brandywine, Chad's Ford, MD Col Moylan
October 4, 1777 Germantown, Pennsylvania Col Moylan
Winter 1777-78 Cantonment at Valley Forge & Trenton, NJ Col Moylan
June 28, 1778 Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey Col Moylan
Winter 1778-79 Cantonment at Durham, Connecticut Col Moylan
1779 Campaign Stationed at Pound Ridge, New York Col Moylan
July 11, 1779 British Raid on Norwalk, Connecticut Col Moylan
August 8, 1779 Raid on Lower Salem, New York LtCol White
Winter 1779-80 Cantonment at Colchester, Connecticut Col Moylan
April-May 1780 Loss of Charleston, South Carolina Gen Lincoln
June 23, 1780 Battle of Springfield, NJ Col Moylan
July 4, 1780 Little Falls, NJ Col Moylan
July 20, 1780 The Cow Chase at Bull's Ferry, NJ Capt Zebulon Pike
Winter 1780-81 Cantonment at Lancaster, Pennsylvania Capt Fauntleroy
Aug 1780 - Jan 1781 Carolinas Campaign of William Washington's Legion
January 18, 1781 Cowpens, South Carolina W Washington's Legion
March l9, 178l Guilford Court House Capt Cook
Jan-Sept 1781 Virginia Campaign Capt Larkin Smith
July 8, 1781 Green Spring (Jamestown), Virginia Capt Larkin Smith
Sept 8, 1781 Eutaw Springs, South Carolina WWashington's Legion
October 1781 The siege of Yorktown, Virginia Col Moylan
November 1781 4LD to General Green in South Carolina Major Fauntleroy
Jan - Aug 1782 Green's re-conquest of South Carolina Capt Cook, Gill, Heard & Overton
May-June 1782 Re-conquest of Georgia Gen Anthony Wayne
May 21, 1782 Ogechee Road, Georgia (Savannah) Lt Bower 1LD
June 21, 1782 Chief Guristersigo's Defeat at Ebeneezer, Georgia Gen Wayne

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Rootsweb organization opon finding the pages of PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION BY BENSON J. LOSSING on the web. This is another boon to Revolutionary War historical researchers. We have always valued the information that is contained in LOSSING's Field Book. Upon our entry this field of endeavor many years ago, this work was cited as one of the best reference works on the subject of the Revolutionary War. Now that the Field Book is available online, we can refer and link to relevent portions of the Field Book where 4th Continental Dragoons participated in events and places documented in the Field Book.
Three Huzza's for the people at Rootsweb for making the Field Book available online!!!

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