1st The Royal Dragoons

Over the next few hours, British units would smash through the French soldiers.

The Union Brigade moved through the infantry lines, while the Royal Dragoons ultimately succeeded in a fight with Charles-Francois Bourgeois' brigade and captured the Eagle Standard, a gift from Napoleon to each regiment, almost 100 of which were presented, from the 105E linea.

Similarly, the Scots Greys captured the Eagle Standard belonging to the 45E Ligne after overwhelming it, while the Innis killings destroyed yet another French division.

In the chaos, leaders struggled to rein in their troops, which led the Scots Greys and the Union Brigade to stumble towards the main French lines.

The Duke of York, in these days of prosperity, did not forget the faithful services of Colonel Churchill.

He was created a peer of Scotland with the title of Baron Churchill of Imoth, and in November 1683 was appointed Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons, which was just being raised as the first regiment of its kind in England.

The public had seen no cause to rate highly Churchill's merits, and ridiculed his appointment as a piece of favouritism.

One lampoon of the time says, Let's cut our meat with spoons, the sense is as good as that Churchill should be put to command the dragoons.

In that year, 1846, I received the regular detail for recruiting service with orders to report to the General Superintendent at Governor's Island, New York, and accordingly left Fort Moultrie in the latter part of April and reported to the Superintendent Colonel R.

B. Mason, 1st Dragoons, at New York, on the first day of May.

I was assigned to the Pittsburgh rendezvous, whither I proceeded and relieved Lieutenant Scott.

Early in May I took up my quarters at the St. Charles Hotel, and entered upon the discharge of my duties.

We also knew that a quarrel had grown up at Los Angeles between General Carney, Colonel Fremont, and Commodore Stockton as to the right to control affairs in California.

Carney had with him only the fragments of the two companies of Dragoons which had come across from New Mexico with him, and had been handled very roughly by Don Andres Pico at San Pascual, in which engagement Captains Moore and Johnson and Lieutenant Hammond were killed, and Carney himself wounded.

There remained with him Colonel Swords, Quartermaster, Captain H. S. Turner, 1st Dragoons, Captains Emery and Warner, Topographical Engineers, Assistant Surgeon Griffin, and Lieutenant J. W. Davidson.

fremont had marched down from the north with a battalion of volunteers commodore stockton had marched up from san diego to los angeles with general kearney his dragoons and a battalion of sailors and marines and was soon joined there by fremont and they jointly received the surrender of the insurgents under andres pico We also knew that General R.