Cuera Dragoon (leather jacket soldier); 18th Century Far West Spanish Cavalry, multipose, 28mm

The dragoons were the cavalry of the Far West in the 18th Century. The land of the American South West was called the Northen Frontier. One century before the 7th Cavalry these few men under the command of De Anza fought the Comanches of chief Green Horn in New Mexico or founded the cities of California. El Zorro was supposed to be a Dragoon. They wore a jacket of 7 stripes of leather, called the Cuera, which gave them good protection against arrows, so very few of them (or even 2) managed to d…

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