De Lancey's Brigade, also known as De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, and the "Cowboys" or "Cow-boys", was a Loyalist British provincial military unit, raised for service during the American War of Independence. Its commanders were Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey and his nephew James De Lancey.
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| - De Lancey's Brigade, also known as De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, and the "Cowboys" or "Cow-boys", was a Loyalist British provincial military unit, raised for service during the American War of Independence. Its commanders were Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey and his nephew James De Lancey. (en)
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| - De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, Refugees, Cowboys, Cow-boys (en)
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| - Province of New York
- Battle of Eutaw Springs
- Battle of Long Island
- Huntington, New York
- Infantry
- Light infantry
- Continental Army
- Loyalists fighting in the American Revolution
- Special operations
- New Jersey Volunteers (Skinner's Greens)
- Elmhurst, Queens
- Long Island
- Maneuver warfare
- Siege of Ninety-Six
- Partisan (military)
- History of the Bronx
- Loyalist military units in the American Revolution
- Brookhaven, New York
- American Revolutionary War
- American War of Independence
- Kingsbridge, Bronx
- Oyster Bay (town), New York
- Cattle raiding
- Cavalry
- James De Lancey (loyalist)
- Archibald Campbell (British Army officer, born 1739)
- Associators
- Charles M. Lefferts
- Auxiliaries
- Guerrilla warfare
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingsbridge, Bronx
- Military intelligence
- Oliver De Lancey (American loyalist)
- Woodstock, New Brunswick
- Looting
- New York and New Jersey Campaign
- History of Westchester County, New York
- Morrisania
- dbr:Neutral_Ground_(Westchester_County,_New_York)
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| - British Provincial unit (en)
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| - A British Loyalist soldier, in "De Lancey's Rufugees", who were associators, known as a "Cowboys" and part of "De Lancey's Brigade", in 1780, wearing a green wool coat, buff trousers, and a leather helmet with bearskin crest, on horseback, with stolen cattle, during the American Revolutionary War, from a painting by artist, Charles M. Lefferts (en)
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| - Oyster Bay, Huntington, Brookhaven, Long Island, Kingsbridge, Bronx (en)
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| - De Lancey's Volunteers, De Lancey's Corps, De Lancey's Provincial Corps, De Lancey's Refugees, Refugees, Cowboys, Cow-boys (en)
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| - *Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey (en)
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| - three battalions , brigade (en)
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