dragoons in English

noun
1
a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army.
From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dragoons or possibly, from the surface damage on them, as ‘case-shot’ from artillery pieces.
synonyms:cavalrymanmounted soldierknightchevalierhussarcavalier
verb
1
coerce (someone) into doing something.
she had been dragooned into helping with the housework

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "dragoons" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "dragoons", or refer to the context using the word "dragoons" in the English Dictionary.

1. Some viewed the dragoons as “excellent missionaries.”

2. Konstabel Biune served with the Jutland Dragoons based at Holstebro

3. The Dragoons advanced to within rifle range and stopped to take aim.

4. Eighty of 400 dragoons were brought down and the rest fled.

5. Zealots and Dragoons prove more cost-effective than Archons due to …

6. The Prussian von Kleist Freikorps included infantry, jäger, dragoons and hussars.

7. If the occupants would abjure the Protestant faith, the dragoons would leave.

8. By 2:30 pm the French were withdrawing and Austrian dragoons seized the Marengo farm.

9. When the alarm was raised, three companies of dragoons were sent in pursuit.

10. The Imperial cavalry was organised into four main branches: Cuirassiers, harquebusiers, dragoons and Croats

11. She was having words with a certain captain of Dragoons with whom we are acquaint'.

12. Synonyms for Browbeats include bulldozes, bullies, cows, hectors, intimidates, badgers, coerces, domineers, dragoons and oppresses

13. Synonyms for Blackmails include threatens, milks, bleeds, compels, exacts, forces, squeezes, coerces, dragoons and intimidates

14. Six weeks after his burial, the Dragoons discovered his grave and dug up his corpse.

15. The dragoons were authorized to brutalize families, make them suffer loss of sleep, and destroy possessions.

16. It looked like Dragoon players were trying to keep their fleets of Dragoons in the game.

17. The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.

18. The Jacobites, with 800 horse and 6300 infantry, easily outnumbered Argyll's 960 dragoons and 2200 foot soldiers.

19. Dragoons were heavily armed soldiers billeted in houses of Huguenots with a view to intimidating the occupants.

20. Behind the Sergeant the Dragoons splayed left and right, but three other horses and four more men died.

21. The first Christian officer who entered Vienna was Margrave Ludwig of Baden, at the head of his dragoons.

22. Cavalry have more speed than ground troops, but at a disadvantage of lacking ranged weapons (dragoons being an exception)

23. It is reputed to be "the best breed in the Republic for light troops, dragoons, hussars, and cavalry officers".

24. The final chapter! Battalion: Vengeance! The Dragoons have come home to lead the final strikes on the Akadian Empire

25. After Dragoons become Carabineers, they gain +17 hit points, +2 attack strength, +1 attack range, and +1 line of sight

26. So successful was the tactic that the return fire from the Dragoons passed over their heads without inflicting a single casualty.

27. It also adds another Atlantean card to your hand giving you a +1 when his effect is allowed to go off and you pitch dragoons.

28. This was quite a problem for Laudon, because his four infantry battalions, a regiment of dragoons, a regiment of hussars, an artillery battery and a troop of frontier guards had only about 6,000 men.

29. Berkeley was the eldest son of William Berkeley, described as a “gentleman” in George’s matriculation entry and as a commissioned officer, a cornet of dragoons, in the entry of a younger brother.

30. The thought did occur to me, though I took great care not to hint at it, that he intended to make away with the Colonel, and looked to finding tools among his Blackguardly dragoons and an opportunity when in actual conflict with the.

31. The 2nd squadron of the 3rd Dragoons Savoia Cavalleria Regiment of the Prince Amedeo Duke of Aosta Fast (Celere) Division, armed with sabres and hand grenades, outflanked an estimated 2,000 Soviet infantry while the remainder of the regiment took Isbushensky in a dismounted attack, .

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33. So much for drinking and Buckism.” Also in Lancaster the next year Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge William Atlee reported that “We have had some disputes between the Light Horse who are stationed here and the Militia Guards; one of the Dragoons, in attempting to force his way into the Guard House at the Barracks, was the other day killed

34. The Household Cavalry (HCav) is made up of the two most senior regiments of the British Army, the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons).These regiments are divided between the Household Cavalry Regiment stationed at Kiwi Barracks in Wiltshire and the ceremonial mounted unit, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, garrisoned at Hyde Park Barracks

35. The 5th Cavalry Regiment ("Black Knights") is a historical unit of the United States Army that began its service on August 3, 1861, when an act of Congress enacted "that the two regiments of dragoons, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and the two regiments of Cavalry shall hereafter be known and recognized, as the first, second, third, fourth