The 2d Dragoons saw action up and down the eastern coast. Many of the actions were just a few men who were out on patrol or on duty. Much of the fighting took place in Connecticut and New York, in the area shown on the map above. The regiment never fielded at full strength, but they saw action over 8 years.
CHRONOLOGY
1776
Dec 26 - Trenton
1777
JAN 3 - Princeton
SPRING - Wethersfield, CT
SPRING - Middlebrook, NJ
JUN 6 - To Morristown by Farmington, Harrington, Litchfield, Kent, Peekskill, Kings Ferry, Haverstraw, Clove and Pompton
JUN 24 - Confronted at Woodbridge, NJ
JUN 25 - Confronted at Short Hills and Elizabethtown, NJ
JULY - Carrol's Ferry to Deleware by way of Georgetown
JUL 23 - Germantown
FALL - Saratoga, NY, Lt. Thomas Seymour's Company
AUGUST - Philadelphia Area
SEP 11 - Confronted at Brandywine, PA
OCT 3 - Confronted at Germantown, PA
OCT 4 - Shippack, PA
DEC - Valley Forge, PA
WINTER - Schuylkill to Delaware River
1778
JANUARY - Connecticut, Chatham and Trenton, NJ for winter
JAN 21 - Valley Forge, PA Area
FEB 2 - Delancey's Action in NY
SPRING - Kings Ferry/The Clove, NY
APR 6 - Trenton, NJ
JUL 24 - White Plains, NY
AUG 1 - White Plains, NY
AUG 24 - White Plains, NY
SEP 5 - White Plains, NY
SEP 12 - White Plains, NY
SEPTEMBER - Hudson, Greenburg Hills, Westchester, New Rochelle, Valentine's Hill, NY
OCT 7 - Clap Tavern
NOV 30 - Bedford, NY
WINTER - Regt. at Durham, CT, Tallmadge in Greenfield
1779
FEB 29 - Middlebrook, NJ
SPRING - Westchester Front and sationed at Pound Ridge
JUNE - Both sides of the Hudson River
JUL 2 - Attacked at Pound Ridge, MAJ. Lockwood's Home
JULY - 2nd and 4th Troop to assit milita at Norfolk for Tyron's Raid
JUL 15 - Moved to Verplanks Point, NY as if to attack
LATE JULY - White Plaints, North Castle, NY
AUG 5 - Lower Salem, Attacked DeLancey's Loyalist Bridage at HQ in Morrisiana (Bronx) NY
SEP 5 - Left from Shippan Point near Stamford, CT and attacked Fort Franklin on Lloyds Neck, NY
DEC 30 - Morristown, NJ
WINTER - Encamped at North Hampton, MA
1780
MARCH - Sheldon got order on Boston for necessary clothing
SPRING - North Castle, NY regiment now consisted of 4 mounted troops and 2 dismounted
SUMMER - 1 Troop of mounted and 2 troop of dismounted on duty at North Stamford with Tallmadge. Remaining 3 mounted troops with Sheldon at Headquarters on active duty at North Castle. Shortly after Tallmadge returned to Westchester with Squadron.
AUG - Bedford, NY
AUG 9 - North Castle, NY
SEP 23 - Tallmadge on duty at White Plains when British Major John Andre is captured.
SEP 24 - Andre escorted by Tallmadge to Tappan, NY
SEP 25 - West Point/Tappan - Tallmadge receives letter from Arnold requesting his enlistment in the British Army. Tallmadge returns to Westchester Front after Andre's hanging.
FALL - Intercepting British supplies and skirmishes with Loyalists on neutrual ground near Tarrytown, NY
SEP 9 - Lower Salem, NY
OCT 2 - West Point, Tappan, NY
OCT 3 - Westchester, NY
OCT - From Bedford toward Hazen to Pine Bridge to drive enemy from area near Crom Pond, NY, Totowa, NJ
NOV - Cross Long Island Sound for reconnaissance
NOV 13 - Fairfield, CT
NOV 21 - From Fairfield crossed Long Island Sound, landed at Woodville, NY
NOV 22 - Marched to Fort St. George
NOV 23 - Sergeant Elijah Churchill and ten Mounted Dragoons rode to Corum to destroy British supply dump.
NOV 11 to Mid DEC - "on the lines" Westchester, NY
DEC - Simsbury, Windsor CT for winter quarters
1781
APR - New Windsor, CT
APR 4 - Northampton, MA
APR 4 - Llyod's Neck, NY for recon
APR 4 - To Newport to meet Rochambeau
MAY - New Windsor, CT
JUN 25 - Hartford, CT
JULY/AUGUST - White Plains / Kingsbridge, NY
AUG 29 - Peekskill, NY
OCT - East side of the North River, NY
OC 2 - Fort Slongo
OCT - Westchester Lines
1782
SPRING - Westchester/Horse Neck, NY
MAY - Newburgh, NY
JUNE - Newburgh, NY
AUG 18 - Newtown, CT
SEP 28 - Verplancks Point, NY
1783
FEB 1 - Newtown, CT
APR 16 - Newtown, CT
JUNE - Headquarters
JUN 10 - Newtown, CT
NOV 20 - Regiment disbanded by General Washington