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7th Cavalry(405 total words in this text)(1910 Reads)  Organized 21 September 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas Assigned in December 1917 to the 15th Cavalry Division Relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division Assigned 13 September 1921 to the 1st Cavalry Division (Reorganized 4 December 1943 partly under cavalry and partly under infantry tables of organization and equipment, and the 1st Cavalry Division concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division, Special; regiment reorganized 25 July 1945 wholly as infantry, but retained cavalry designations) Regimental troops redesignated 25 March 1949 as companies (1st Cavalry Division, Special concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division) Relieved 15 October 1957 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 February 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System 7th Cavalry Honors Campaign Participation Credit Indian Wars: Comanches; Little Big Horn; Nez Perces; Pine Ridge; Montana 1873; North Dakota 1874 Mexican Expedition: Mexico 1916-1917 World War II: New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead); Leyte (with arrowhead); Luzon Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Third Korean Winter Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ANTIPOLO, LUZON Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for YONCHON, KOREA Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TAEGU, KOREA Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PUSAN, KOREA Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PLEIKU PROVINCE Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BINH THUAN PROVINCE Valorous Unit Award for QUANG TIN PROVINCE Valorous Unit Award for FISH HOOK Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for WAEGWAN-TAEGU Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953 Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA |
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1813:
U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
1859: Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreats across the River Sesia in Italy. 1864: Union troops secure a crucial pass during the Atlanta campaign. In the spring and summer of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston conducted a slow and methodical campaign to seize control of Atlanta. 1915: German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois. 1936: Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country. 1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy. 1945: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. 1951: Three hundred and twelve Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy planes hit Sinuiju Airfield in one of the largest air raids of the war. 1955: Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |
