dragoons

He looked to the west, back down the road which led to Oporto, and he could see no more Frenchmen, which suggested the dragoons were a patrol sent to harry fugitives.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Why, you see, though the fellows with their pens behind their ears are no more than six-watered gin to us, the dragoons are another sort of thing.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

Louis XIV. was pleased to call the dragoons his Booted

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

European warfare -- such as dragoons, cuirassiers, hussars, lancers, chasseurs, hulans, etc. Heavy cavalry is composed of the heavier men and horses, and is usually divided into dragoons and cuirassiers.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The denomination 'dragoons' has recently been abolished from our service.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The men in Search and Destroy are "dragoons" of the 1st Cavalry Regiment … and their tanks.

Veterans Today 2010

..although i'd have to say your "dragoons" are "draconian" in their nature & tactics...

Lock n' Loaded: Cracking Down on Bike Theft BikeSnobNYC 2008

Not privy to the settlement, a band of southern Indians attacked a party of dragoons and workers, killing or capturing eighteen.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Not privy to the settlement, a band of southern Indians attacked a party of dragoons and workers, killing or capturing eighteen.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

They were used to it, and they gained enough by it to keep themselves and to afford one luxury, Toto -- Toto, who ate as much as two dragoons, and for whom they were obliged to pay the tax regularly to have civic permission for him to live.

Finding a Little Too Much in Oz 2009