dragoons's Usage Examples:

His dragoons drove away the skirmishers along the lane, and the line cavalry crossed into the moor.

Previously, it had numbered about 1000 (artillery, dragoons, infantry) quartered in various schools, chiefly to aid in the training of the militia.

Hostilities were then una voidable, and the first passage at arms occurred on the 24th of April 1846; when a large force of Mexicans on the east bank of the Rio Grande ambushed and captured a small party of American dragoons under Captain Seth B.

As Exelmans' dragoons had already gained touch of the III.

regiments of cuirassiers, 32 of dragoons, 21 of chasseurs a cheval, 14 of hussars, 6 of chsseurs dAfrigue and ~.

Sir Ralph Abercromby was here engaged in personal conflict with some French dragoons, and about this time received a mortal wound, though he remained on the field and in command to the end.

and Guard corps followed the main road towards Konigsberg, and the former had reached Miihlhausen, the remainder were about Preussisch-Eylau, when Latour Maubourg's dragoons sent in intelligence which pointed to the presence of Bennigsen about Friedland.

light dragoons, threes right; at a trot, march!bad things come in threes right?arcanum the lesser arcana, Saturn is assigned to the threes on cabbalistic grounds.

He thus became a persona grata with the party in power; he was already a colonel of dragoons, and in 1792 he was given a command in the army of the North.

Nearly all the French dragoons were galloping back.

Get your ass down here and drag this old coot home!The dragoons did not assail the right wing till the retreat had commenced.

He touched his horse, gave the word of command, and immediately, hearing behind him the tramp of the horses of his deployed squadron, rode at full trot downhill toward the dragoons.

The Thirteenth, raised as heavy dragoons (mounted infantrymen) as early as 1715, were also converted to the light role.

Synonyms:

cavalryman, trooper,

Antonyms:

decompress, undercharge, refrain,