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Tango01 | 20 Dec 2014 1:07 p.m. PST |
"Originally a dragoon regiment, by the end of its career, the troopers had become hardened enough (and perhaps with sturdier nags) to become traditional cavalry. Its recruiting area under Hugh Fraser of Kynneries is unknown. All of its senior officers where veterans from the continent. Arriving in England in May, by the siege of York it was well provisioned and with an impressive compliment of troopers. Serving with Leven through Northumberland and County Durham it acquitted itself well at the Battle of Corbridge. When Montrose, before his Highland adventures, attacked Morpeth castle, Fraser and Wheldons Horse pushed the royalist back.
At Marston Moor, they deployed on the allied left, pushing forward to take control of the Sike Beck, a ditch perpendicular to the main deployment. As both forces began to deploy, some of Ruperts' cavalry pushed forward into contact with Frasers Dragoons. They held and prevailed, with the royalist troopers fleeing to York…"
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