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From soldier to wagon master to scalp hunter Chamberlain left Boston as a mere youth and joined the United States Army. He became a soldier in the 1st US Dragoons and determined to become the very ideal of the daring cavalryman both on and off the battlefields of the American-Mexican War. His is a tale-not a little tall-that includes accounts of passionate love affairs, duels to the death, pitched battles and exploits of daring in which Chamberlain himself features as the central heroic figure. Certainly he was a larger than life character, as his accounts of constant troubles with his superiors for brawling, drunkenness and insubordination appear with a detail and frequency which suggest authenticity. At the end of the war Chamberlain became a wagon master-possibly after deserting the army-and then threw himself into a series of adventures with a notorious band of scalp hunters led by the infamous John Glanton. A highly entertaining and informative account of the United States cavalry at war, in which many of the principal characters of the American Civil War-who appear within it's pages-learned their craft.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence

• Full title: U. S. Dragoon
• Subtitle: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48 and on the South Western Frontier
• Author: Samuel E Chamberlain
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9781846774294
• ISBN: 9781846774294
• ID: 08847881
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2008

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