Excerpt from A Trooper's Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 In 1809, the Second Troop joined in an application to the Legislature to authorize the forming of a Regiment of Cavalry for the City and County of Philadelphia, there being then six troops of cavalry here. On June 14th, 1810, the necessary permission having been granted, a regiment was formed, and Robert Wharton, who had commanded both the First and the Second Troop, was chosen Colonel. Thomas Cadwalader now became Captain of the Second Troop, which, with the other troops, performed, at various times, escort duty to Captain John Paul Jones, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Cap tain Bainbridge and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.