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I am sure I saw a question about these in a thread I was reading but I cannot now find it, so I ask for leniency in making the results I came across whilst looking for something else. I forsee a problem with the table... American Casualties Reports on American casualties sustained during the expedit...

Thanks Pat, especially if it will elict a reponse.

There is a site (http://www.cultura.gob.mx/centenario-ejercito/ultima_carga.php) which has a fascinating series of photos of a re-enactment of the Last Charge.The only issue with them is the uniforms they show – incredibly neat and clean and not matching anything which seems to me to be in any way l...

Apologies for the length of this post. It is an attempt to describe the last cavalry charge of the Revolution, working from some brief descriptions in Spanish I found on the internet, run through Google Translate and then 'polished' into better English. The problem is both Google and I can get milit...

Thanks PJ, you are right! I am very tempted to buy a copy anyway...but having got notes for half of it, it would be annoying to find the rest doesn't add anything! I was rather hoping someone who had read it might be able to advise. Again thanks for the Bookseller link - seems amazing how cheap the ...

La Expedicion Punitiva by Alberto Salinas Carranza, Ediciones Botas, Segunda Edicion, 1937 I have copies of notes taken from this work by Clendenen for his book but they start at p240 or so. Can anyone who has read it tell me whether the earlier pages are worth trying to get a look at - by which I s...

I originally missed that this one is already listed (I was thrown by the books being by title rather than by author) but I will leave it in because the original posting didn't mention what makes this book different. it is well worth reading because it focuses on the Mexican side of events rather tha...

Use of the lance, which had been such a favourite and effective Mexican cavalry weapon, had disappeared completely by 1910 except for a ceremonial unit of presidential guard. Given that it was still being carried by European armies, and indeed cavalry units in many armies fairly recently had been re...

Dusan, Once again thank you so much. This one appears to have come from the Cavalry Journal too? I will check the scanned copies available on line before asking for any more maps from the Mexican Expedition (and hope that the pages have not gone missing). As an expert on US cavalry swords might I as...

Delighted at the success of my request for a map of one Mexican Expedition fight, I am trying it on with another! I would like to ask for help if I may, specifically with finding a map or plan of the fight at Carrizal 21 Jun 1916. Does anyone know if one exists, and if so, where I might be able to o...

Dusan,

What can I say? What a splendid response -this makes the whole thing understandable.

Thank you so much!

KRs

Mike

I wonder if anyone who has access to this could help me please? The scanned version accessible through the web at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008891896 has the relevant pages, and some others relating to the Punitive Expedition, missing. I have the text of the article (from notes made by Cl...

Thanks Kurt. I have responded direct.

Pat, You are quite right, of course. I should perhaps have explained that the 'categories' are not used singly to define the force, rather they are applied in a hierarchy, with the predominant first. But often as you say, they will be heavily mixed eg 50/50 Urban/Campesino. It came about as a way to...

Nice - it's B marvellous! One I have never seen before, and I have seen a few. If you have others I would love to see them. The sad thing is that I will now go through the photo analysing each man (and horse) noting the details of clothing, equipment and weapons, then summarise the information and c...

Pat I wish I'd said that-succinctly put and spot on. The 'later' Federal forces, dressed mostly courtesy surplus US uniforms, are difficult to ID by eye from their opponents unless the caption says so. Thanks for the suggestions. I have looked through this site, and many others, and the Casaloa volu...

Can anyone help, please? I am trying to do some models of revolutionary cavalry and have realised I do not have a proper handle on this. I have been studying photos, and my conclusions are that Federale cavalry: a) invariably carried the carbine slung diagonally across the back, over the left should...