Annotation:Fourth Dragoon's Regimental March

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 FOURTH DRAGOON'S REGIMENTAL MARCH. English, March (cut time). England, Shropshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The Fourth Dragoons (The Fourth {Queen's Own} Regiment of {Light} Dragoons) were one of the calvary units of the British Army that participated in the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. See Wikipedia article for more. The melody appears as "Hull's Fourth Dragoon March" in the c. 1840's manuscript collection of Lawrence Leadley, a fiddler from Helperby, Yorkshire.  Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].  Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 16, p. 3.  Recorded sources:

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