The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, also known as the First City Troop, is a unit of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. It is one of the oldest...
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Uniform of a corporal in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry Uniform of a sergeant in the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment Uniform of a...
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Joseph Lapsley Wilson (category Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia))
the company for 38 years. In 1867, he was elected to the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, the oldest continually-active military unit in the United...
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List of United States Army units with colonial roots (section Troop A/1st Squadron/104th Cavalry, PA ARNG (First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry))
In 1794 the Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia was redesignated as the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry. In that same year the unit was called...
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First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry also called Philadelphia Light Horse, mustered into federal service. Now Troop A, 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment...
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Troop A, 1st Squadron, also known as the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, is the oldest active mounted unit in the United States Army. Troop B...
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First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and saw action with George Washington at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He continued in the First City Troop...
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Cadwalader Morris (category Politicians from Philadelphia)
During the American Revolution, he was a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, which was commanded by his cousin, Captain Samuel Morris...
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firsttroop.com. First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. Retrieved 12 March 2024. Gracey 1868, p. 20. Taylor, Frank H. (1913). Philadelphia in the Civil War...
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Abraham Markoe (section Philadelphia)
supported U.S. independence by founding the Philadelphia Light Horse, now known as the First City Troop, and presenting them with a regimental flag of...
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after the start of the American Revolutionary War, the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry escorted General George Washington to New York to take command...
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Charles Horter (category Sportspeople from Philadelphia)
Philadelphia and the Island Heights Yacht Club. While competing in various Olympic Trials, Horter served in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry...
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"About First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry". First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry Official Website. Retrieved 22 October 2014. "Cavalry Troop A". Maryland...
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3rd Infantry Regiment's Commander-in-Chief's Guard, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and some National Guard. Additionally, cadets at the United...
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Old Philadelphians (category History of Philadelphia)
Philadelphia Colonial Society of Pennsylvania Contributionship/Hand-in-Hand Dancing Assemblies of Philadelphia First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry Germantown...
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List of flags of the United States (section City flags)
Guard Bureau Flag of the Air National Guard Flag of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered...
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James Wilson (Founding Father) (category Burials at Christ Church, Philadelphia)
ensued, six died, and 17 to 19 were wounded. The city's soldiers, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry and Baylor's 3rd Continental Light Dragoons, eventually...
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Anthony Morris (II) (category Mayors of Philadelphia)
1763, Morris died in Philadelphia, at age 81. Morris's grandson, Samuel, was Captain of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry during the American Revolutionary...
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on June 16, 1863, provided money to buy horses for the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry so it could deploy to meet the Confederate Army at Gettysburg...
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partnership, Kendrick & Co., failed in 1922, was a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, with which he served during World War I as a captain in...
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the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry 1775 — Continental Marines founded, Tun Tavern, Philadelphia; now known as U.S. Marine Corps 1777 — First United...
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the first Confederate troops to reach the Susquehanna at Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, on June 28, skirmishing with the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry...
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of March 1867, the 9th Cavalry was at nearly full strength with a total of 885 enlisted men, or an average of over 70 to a Troop, and was ordered to San...
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F Troop is a satirical American television Western sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s. The series originally...
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brigadier general in the National Guard. He was a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry and owned extensive land in Torresdale. His wife Louise...
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John Carson (physician) (category Burials at Mount Vernon Cemetery (Philadelphia))
First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. Carson was also elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Hibernian Society of Philadelphia,...
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1773 – Walnut Street Jail in operation. 1774 First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry organized September 5: First Continental Congress of the United Colonies...
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Andrew Allen (Pennsylvania politician) (category Lawyers from Philadelphia)
Port Act, and helped form an independent militia unit, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, on November 2, 1774. On June 30, 1775, he was appointed...
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American Revolution. Boston: Little and Brown. History of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry: from its Organization, November 17th, 1774 to its Centennial...
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John Lehman (category Military personnel from Philadelphia)
Technology Solutions Inc. He is also an honorary member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. As of 2005[update], he is a member of a number of influential...
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