Chiclana [called the Battle of Barrosa by the British] 

 March 5, 1811, carried the golden wreath given by the 

 City of Paris upon the return of the Grand Army after 

 the campaigns of Austerlitz, Jena, and Fricdland, 1805 

 to 1807. This wreath in solid gold encircles the neck of 

 the Eagle and is tied to it . . . ." M. Jean Brunon to 

 Melvin H. Jackson, 10 Jan. 1965, LR in S.I. files. The 

 eagle captured at Chiclana was taken by the 87th Foot 

 (Royal Irish Fusiliers) and at various periods that unit 

 has useci it on its badges and buttons; see H. G. Parkyn, 

 Shoulder-Belt Plates and Buttons (Aldershot, 1956), pp. 

 302-05. 



'"Inine to \Vm. Silkman, VVhitlockville, N.Y., 26 

 Dec. 1836, CG of P, LS, RG 92, NA. 



'^-"General Regulations for the Army (1834), op. cit., 

 p. 210. 



^21 Ibid. 



^-- House Document No. 2, 26th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 271. 



1=3 "U.S. Dragoon Corps. Full Dress," U.S. Military 

 Magazine (Feb. 1841 ) , no plate nimiber: sketch by Frank 

 B. Mayer, "United States Cavalry, First Dragoons, 1851," 

 White MSS, New York Public Library. 



'-' Three of the specimens studied carr>' the labels of 

 these makers. See appendix for contract dates. 



1" Specification No. 188, QMG's Office, 5 Apr. 1887, 

 RG 92, NA. 



i^^Cost of clothing list for 1840 in G.O. 46, H.Q. of 

 the Army, 6 Oct. 1840, RG 94, NA. 



i=" Irvine to Garland, 30 Oct. 1832, tray 61, Cloth. 

 Bur., LR, RG 92, NA. 



i=« Irvine to Garland, 12 May 1836, CG of P, LS, RG 

 92, NA. 



i=» Uniform Board Report, 27 Apr. 1844, A.G. Doc. 

 File B 136, 1844, Box 150, RG 94, NA. This report is very 

 difficult to use because marginal notations (apparently 

 made by the Quartermaster General as it was routed to 

 him by the Adjutant General) indicating whether certain 

 recommendations were approved or not, are all but 

 illegible. 



13° These items appear for the first time in a cost of 

 clothing list in G.O. 54, H.Q. of the Army, 15 Dec. 1845, 

 RG 94, NA. 



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