dragoons

• On the 18th this division was reinforced by Brigadier-General Brown's Brigade, with a body of dragoons from the American shore. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• The idea of packing up ammunition for the croppies in the temporary barrack of a squadron of dragoons, and using His Majesty's straw to stuff the sacks, appealed to him as extremely comic. —  The Northern Iron
• They boasted in Tarleton, able, enterprising and imperious, an excellent commander for the direction of irregular warfare, whose name and that of the squadron of horse which he raised and organized became to the rebels what the names of Claverhouse and his dragoons were to the Covenanters. —  A History of the United States
• The dragoons were then sent down to the Texford Arms Though Harry felt that he ought to return home, he could not leave the cottage while there was a possibility of the smugglers rallying. —  Won from the Waves
• This attack upon the dragoons was very quick and regular; as we came within pistolshot the dragoons made up to us at a full trot, thinking to bear us down by their weight, and break us at once, and indeed being well mounted and accoutred they made a glorious show, sufficient to have struck other hearts than ours with a pannick. —  The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)

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