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Fighting tyranny
since 1777
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The Third
Continental
Light Dragoons
A
Progressive
American
Revolutionary War
Enacting
Group
"the
sword is the most destructive and almost
only necessary weapon a
dragoon carries"
-- Major Richard Call, 3d Dragoons
to Governor Thomas Jefferson
March 29, 1781
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"Continental Light Dragoon"
Painting by Don Troiani,
www.historicalimagebank.com
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Welcome
to
the Internet home
of the Third Continental Light Dragoons, Captain William Parsons Troop,
a progressive American Revolutionary War enacting
group founded in 2004. The
modern
"3d CLD" recruits outside of geographic boundaries and the unit
boasts
members from North and South Carolina as well as affiliations with
individuals
and units from Virginia and Tennessee.
To learn
more
about us and what we do, visit our Mission
page
or try to visit us in camp by attending an event listed in our Event
Schedule. You can also Contact
Us for more information. You will find us always willing to talk, teach, and
learn more about our hobby!
We
also portray Colonel James McCall's
(South Carolina) State Troops and, to a increasingly greater extent, the British Legion
cavalry.
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