Pandours

Though the Pandours were the predatory light cavalry of the Austrian army, and had considerable resemblance to the Pindaris, it does not seem possible to suppose that there is any connection between the two words.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

When afterwards cashiered, he settled on his estates in Croatia, and drilled a thousand of his tenantry to act as "Pandours" against the banditti.

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 Friedrich Trenck 1760

And since that, I have seen the Cravats and Pandours in Pannonia and Transylvania, and the

A Legend of Montrose 2008

I made a campaign or two with the Pandours under Austrian Trenck.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Trenk's Pandours, and Nadasti's hussars were worth an army to Austria, from the first Silesian war down to the last shot fired in Germany.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Thus passed before me the famous Croatian companies -- the Pandours, together forming the finest outpost troops of the army -- the free companies of the Tyrol, the first marksmen of the empire, a fine athletic race, with the eagle's feather in their broad hats, and the sinewy step of the mountaineer -- the lancers of the Bannat, first-rate videttes, an

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Philips; and we were driven by Tarleton and other British Pandours from pillar to post, while her husband was fighting the battles of his country.

American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899

'I warrant that you did keep your Pandours on the trot.'

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Wessenburg of the Pandours would, even at his own mess table, suffer much free talk -- more perhaps than fits in with the dignity of a leader.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Wessenburg of the Pandours, I proposed that we should order an evening meal, and should employ the remaining hour or two of daylight in looking over the city.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894