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  • The chasseur saw them at the same time, and the French trumpet called the Dragoons into order.

    Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

  • The Dragoons were the equivalent of a light infantry unit that rode horses.

    The Albert Lea Tribune 2008

  • "Dragoons," said I. "After me," she replied carelessly, and I saw that danger for herself left her cold.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • The most thrilling incident to that view was early in the day when a body of cavalry, supposed to be "Dragoons," swung into line from behind the cedar glade with drawn sabers, gleaming and waving in the crisp chill sunlit air, dashed down over the open fields in a grand charge upon the

    Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade, 1918

  • The 2nd Stryker "Dragoons" share Tirin Kot - TK for short - with a battalion of Australian troops as well as hundreds of Dutch soldiers helping with their country's withdrawal from a four-year mission.

    Stars and Stripes 2010

  • I wasn't at the conference, but have sat in similar environments with TACP and light blue flying sorts, and none of them has suggested that a mix of 'Dragoons' was the answer.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Dear friends and family of Delta Company "Dragoons,"

    Marine Corps Moms 2008

  • "Dragoons, " Sharpe said, 'dozens of the bastards.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • In desperate straits for money (and having failed in his first plan to win the Irish lottery), out of control and out of ideas, Coleridge succumbed to a fugue, running away to join the Dragoons under a pseudonym.

    Wordsworth & Coleridge I « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • Thus the three battalions in the brigade, could be the 3rd battalion of the Wessex Dragoons; the 2nd battalion of the Dorset Fencibles; and the 7th battalion of the Ulster Tanks.

    Our Order of Battle on the Niagara Front 2008

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