How To Use Dragoon In A Sentence

In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
We have recently added a troop of dragoons to the regiment.

While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
Perhaps I am a farmer myself — an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats. Roundabout Papers
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
Before setting off to Dancewear in Glasgow to buy my first set of pumps, however, I was dragooned by the man to take part in a hateful five-a-side.
Dragoon enclosed on the base and went high in the air then dive-bombed the area with that special fireball technique.
-- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
Without stopping, as soon as the sun rose Banastre Tarleton ordered his unrested Legion and dragoons to charge into the American militia in the center.
The first M91 / 30 rifles therefore, used the curved backsights of the old dragoon rifles.
The dragoon was the first to resume the conversation. The Tiger Hunter
The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
It is possible that the red uniforms of several British dragoons may have been glimpsed on Novikov's estate.
Here a 'em, thinking aye that ye was riding no far ahint us, and when a hears a gallopin' an 'turns roond, ye've santed, an' here's a pack o 'thae bluidy dragoons that wad blast ye black in the face an' speir the inside oot o 'a wheelbarra. Stories of the Border Marches
Serving troops of the Allied nations, including the Light Dragoons 13 th / 18th Royal Hussars, conducted a march past.
Public service in this period included personal services such as labor on the fortifications being built at the isthmus of Corinth and the quartering and provisioning of dragoons and their mounts in the villages in the winter months.
In the corner opposite the dragoon was a boy of eighteen or so in the working clothes of a terrassier or labourer. The Soul of the War
Nine uniformed dragoons are standing around with the figure that is probably the architect, in frock coat and top hat concentrating on a drawing board.
The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left. Archive 2009-05-01
This is what Bill saw in front of his dragoons and jager screen: Prussian infantry supported by Prussian dragoons and cuirassiers. BAR Napoleon Playtest
Born in Hereford, the third of seven children of Peter Garrick and Arabella Clough, he returned with his family to Lichfield where his father was stationed with the dragoons, and where he received his early education.
Along with the awful band at the next wedding or Bar Mitzvah you're dragooned into.
Kettledrummle was taen near us -- for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. Old Mortality, Volume 1.
There is some muttering about being 'dragooned', but I do not take insubordination from the lower ranks. Home | Mail Online
-- While his regiment was in daily expectation of receiving orders for Ireland, some one told him, that country quarters in the sister kingdom were so filthy, that the rich uniforms of his corps would soon be lamentably soiled: 'Let the men act as dragoons, then,' said his royal highness, 'and _scour the country_.' The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832
The French have 3 battalions of infantry plus Bill's 2 btns, 40 dragoons, 32 cuirassiers, 12 chasseurs and four 8-pounders with crew. June Painting Results
It had taken Audley four days to complete his report on the current state of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was three days less than he had allowed himself originally; and which, he reminded himself irritably, would have left him ten days buckshee holiday with Faith and Cathy if he hadn't been conned, bullied and dragooned into messing around with politicians 'chestnuts to absolutely no effect. War Game
The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left. Archive 2009-05-01
Working on a theme of deception and constraints mandating that we must include “a sink, a wink or a rink”, we built the 2d side-scroller “Panda Dragoon: Bees on Ice” with the aid of the Unity engine. Global Game Jam 2010 : KillerCodingNinjaBunny
The road is slippery on the high ground hard by, and it is debated at Lisselan House whether the farrier of the Dragoon Guards shall not be asked to "sharpen" the shoes of the animals employed there, for no local workman will touch them. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
When you've been pressed into service as "sergeant-general" of the Malagassy army, or forced to convoy a bog-trotting idiot figged up as Sinbad the Sailor through an enemy army, or dragooned into impersonating a poxed-up Danish prince - why, what's a slave rebellion more or less? THE NUMBERS
The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.
Every part of the cavalier's and dragoon's armor was made to work together.
As she traced the zipper outline of the case, she explained to Brian, ‘There's a party tonight, and I was dragooned into going.’
Little Bluewing, the dragoon's little bluewing, that is, was not like other children; she always talked very sensibly, but she often said queer things, and everybody was puzzled to know where she got them from. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
'He was plaguy hot at first, but he soon came round, and he hath promised that if I pay for the hire of a dragooner as long as the war shall last I shall have back the piebald.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
This small force consisted of a troop of dragoons in front, an advance guard of light infantry, a few artillery batteries, and several infantry regiments in the rear.
He also controlled the reserve of 43 converged grenadiers and 12 mounted 2nd Royal North British Dragoons the "Greys". Archive 2009-05-01
Yes, and dragooning young people into the rebel army, but that was a matter which had been argued before the Tribunal.
Britain began transforming certain of its own light dragoon regiments into hussars in 1807.
I have a good start on this project, having painted a dozen each of the dragoons and jaegers with another 24 Croats on the painting table. Freikorps von Kleist (FC12)
By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz. Archive 2009-03-01
But he’s mistaen if that’s his end; for it will be lang or Lord Evandale hears a word frae me about the selling my kye for rent or e’er it was due, or the putting the dragoons on me when the country’s quiet, or onything else that will vex him, — I can bear my ain burden patiently, and warld’s loss is the least part o’t.” Old Mortality
It doesn't try to load each episode with winky references for the adult who's been dragooned into watching it; instead, it just tells short clever stories anyone can enjoy.
So at the risk of being dragooned into the ranks of the lynch mob, I'll add that the simplest reason he inspires so much derision is that he dishes it out himself in spades with a supremely self satisfied and moralistic air.
Like other forms of body armour, metal helmets were generally abandoned in Latin Europe around 1660, but were revived around 1810 for units of heavy cavalry and dragoons, and are still worn by such units on formal occasions.
A sejeant [sic] and six men only engage a Spanish subaltern with twenty-five dragoons, unbroken, kill six of their men, and bring in the rest prisoners, with every horse of the party. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
The 36,000 troopers of the cavalry arm were organized into eight cuirassier, six dragoon, twelve hussar and three uhlan regiments. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
The Obama White House first became known for reckless political tactics when the National Endowment for the Arts used several conference calls dragoon artists into promoting specific administration policies. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
Jefferson had himself been hunted like an animal by British dragoons.
So Saturday last weekend I was dragooned into being a judge at a local school's speech contest.
President Mbeki said in an interview earlier this month Pretoria would not dictate policy to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, nor would it be "dragooned" into overthrowing his government. ANC Daily News Briefing
Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
Oriental Club; but Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a delassement after the fatigues incident on this great work), when he saw it, after a month’s interval, declared the thing was rubbish, and massacred Britons, Malays, Dragoons, The Newcomes
Now their commander must dragoon several tech or merchant gangs from the Oberon spire into the ranks.
And he was an officer who had marshalled and dragooned them yesterday, and ordered them in. COUP D'ETAT
So they bought Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy a cornetcy in the ---- regiment of dragoons. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
Pierce, the dragooner of Kansas, writes a letter in favor of free elections, and the maligners of New England propose a Connecticut The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
More shame that government send dragoons out after-a few honest fellows that bring the old women of England a drop of brandy, and let these ragamuffins smuggle in as much papistry and — Hark! — was that a whistle? Redgauntlet
The Dragoon dropped the carbine and fumbled for his sword which hung from its wrist strap.
The Dragoons arrived on the battlefield and sent a party forward under a flag of truce.
Fired on by guns from both flanks and to the front, he and a few dragoons reached the Russian line before retreating.
In 1703 the provveditore of New Navarino noted that he would raise these from those villages not currently contributing to the quartering of dragoons.
After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director.
Poitou, already "dragooned" in 1681 by the intendant Marillac, had just been so well labored with by The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
Dreamy and bookish, he soon wearied of college life and enlisted in the dragoons.
Once upon a time my Sunday school teacher dragooned me into a little kiddie choir that performed ‘Away in A Manger’ during the Christmas cantata.
The court house and public buildings at Turkey Point were only saved by the appearance of the militia and a detachment of the 19th Light Dragoons, both of which corps I have very great satisfaction in acquainting Your Excellency, evinced the strongest anxiety to come in contact with the enemy. The Experience of An American Soldier in the War of 1812-14
Then the dragoons came under fire from a German battalion mounted on bicycles.
But no; the brigadier's servant and the mess-waiter, who was a high-spirited and intelligent dragoon, sought to vary the _ennui_ of the march, and to assert their superiority over the Kaffirs in the matter of stage-driving, by taking the _fourgon_ and its half broken team full gallop down the incline terminating in Houwater _vlei_. On the Heels of De Wet
Medieval English archers were sometimes mounted to enable them to keep pace with men-at-arms, and dragoons, who eventually became cavalry proper, were initially foot soldiers mounted on cheap nags.
So successful was the tactic that the return fire from the Dragoons passed over their heads without inflicting a single casualty.
In an unwary moment, French dragoons come so very narrowly to causing Wellesley great harm, prevented only by the heroic efforts of Sergeant Richard Sharpe.
The State had been, as he phrased it, "dragooned" out of the Union; and President Lincoln was perfectly justified in calling for troops after the seizure of the forts and arsenals. Admiral Farragut
What they need help with is mostly serving meals and answering phones - they aren't dragooning people into serving on bucket brigades.
So successful was the tactic that the return fire from the Dragoons passed over their heads without inflicting a single casualty.
And so on, and so on, and so on, till one would have thought they were all trying for tide-waiters’ places, or cornetcies in the heavy dragoons. The Water Babies
Meanwhile the commissioners (intendants) were working with all their might to bring about conversions of Protestants, to which end some of them made as much use of dragoons as they did missionaries, so that their system of making converts by force rather than by conviction came to be branded with the name of dragonnade. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
On 21 August 1914, a squadron of 120 cavalrymen belonging to the 4th Dragoon Guards were sent forward to reconnoitre the land ahead of the advancing British Expeditionary Force.
Cavalry was essential to pursue the hard-riding Indians - at first, a full regiment of dragoons was drummed to the colors, and then a second regiment.
We were dragooned into going to the opera.
Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
After 1812 shortage of horses meant that a five-squadron French dragoon regiment might go to war with three squadrons horsed and two on foot.
When we were dragooned by the southern hemisphere into the professional era, nobody thought too much about the longer-term consequences.
The commander of the dragoons was court-martialled, and shot himself.
Her podcast mentioning "dragoon" had to come from here Red Letter Challenge -update
Bloody sharp stuff, horrid stuff, and Harris and Perkins backed out of the shrine, their arms filled with the last bottles and they hurled them up onto the bridge and now the hooves were a thunder to fill the air and shake the ground, and the curb chains and scabbard chains clinked and Sharpe stood to see the lances coming straight at him, and even the dragoons had stopped to watch the Poles slaughter their way across the bridge. Sharpe's Skirmish
Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.
Yon dragooner is quite certain that you are not here, and we can safely take advantage of his opinion. The Yeoman Adventurer
Towards 1pm I'm dragooned into an extra bit of programming, a Quick-Draw event, due to Matt Feazell having to leave for a family emergency. Kids Read Comics Report (with preamble)
The politically innocent Dave is dragooned into impersonating the real president, in order to hide the truth from the public.
To give them their full effect, we should imagine that these letters have this moment been brought to town by the splashed and way - worn postrider, or perhaps by an orderly dragoon, who has ridden in a perilous hurry to deliver his despatches. A Book of Autographs
The event climaxed with a band concert given by The Dragoon Guards, at a sunset ceremony in Imphal Barracks.
Kennedy adds that the "jamb" in the French was so thick that the men could not bring down their arms or level a musket, and the Dragoons rode in the intervals between their formation, reaching forward with the stroke of their long swords, and slaying at will. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
He was singing a stave from the "Enniskillen Dragoon" when I came up with him Roughing It in the Bush
By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz. Archive 2009-03-01
I have already applied to the Horse Guards on your behalf, and have the refusal of a cornetcy in the Light Dragoons. Vellenaux A Novel
But Kent was in a dragoon regiment and the half jacket you wear is typical for hussar uniforms.
The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position.
Andrew Wilson’s naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. — Old Mortality
It is a painting I often have in mind when I write about my dragoons.
In the original battle on December 5 1642 Royalist Lord Henry Wilmot and Lord Digby led a troop of dragoons in a daring attack on the town.
In fact, the lancers were a minority of those who charged: only one regiment of lancers, but two each of hussars and light dragoons.
Initially the male population was required to supply labor services for defensive works at the isthmus of Corinth while inhabitants of the villages were also required to supply lodging and provisions for the dragoons.
If I were dragooned tomorrow into teaching Western civ, I would raise my hand for the second semester, from Torquemada to Hitler.
It is a phenomenon of the past twenty years or so and I write this as someone who has done a great deal of counselling that victims of traumata are instantly descended upon by counsellors intent upon dragooning them into the first stage of grief even before the disaster has fully registered, and social workers who presume to know their needs. Sevdah at the Barbican
She affects Victorian-melodrama attitudes, tromps about like a regiment of dragoons, utters horror-film laughs, and spits out a goodly number of her lines.
In fact, the lancers were a minority of those who charged: only one regiment of lancers, but two each of hussars and light dragoons.
On the other side the blushless captain of dragoons listened, with downcast eyes, to the sentimental compliments of Beaumarchais, and suffered himself, without a smile, to be compared to the Maid of Orleans, 'says the Duc de Broglie. Historical Mysteries
The Patriot delivers in the form of Colonel William Tavington of the green dragoons.
The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Subsequently both plans were renamed, the latter becoming Operation Overlord, the former becoming Operation Dragoon; a name supposedly picked by Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan, and claimed to having been "dragooned" into accepting it. October 2005
He called a dragoon, who was riding in advance, issued a few orders and cautions relative to the comfort and safety of Singleton, and speaking a consoling word to his friend himself, gave Roanoke the spur, and dashed by the car, at a rate that again put to flight all the philosophy of The Spy
In the past the home, built by a retired dragoon guard, has been a pie shop, toll house and communal wash house.
( 'Squire Correspondence,' April 3, 1643), it will be seen that a dragooner was worth twenty pieces, while a charger could not be obtained under sixty. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
I believe Ms. Bauer is aiming in the general direction of "dragoon" as verb transitive, in particular the second definition of such as offered by the 1913 Webster: " 2. Red Letter Challenge -update
Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
The draft, during the nine years of the Vietnam war, conscripted some 1.9 million Americans, or about 12 times as many as stop-loss has dragooned. Backdoor Draft Winding Down -- For Now
Our little gaggle of ladies of the Gallian Court found themselves trapped behind the enemies lines when a Germanian reconaissance in force 3 btns musketeers, 1 btn grenadiers, 4 jager companies, 6 squadrons of hussars, 3 squadrons of dragoons, and two 6 pounders led by Major General von Hacke, occupied the little village of Muhlenberg, situated a few miles west of the Fulda Gap. Archive 2008-01-01
Berkeley, born January 2d, 1780, M.P. for the county of Anglesea, Major in the Jth Regiment of dragoons; married, No - vember 22d, 1804, Sophia, daughter of the Hon. Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
At this point, Davout ordered the heavy dragoons on his far right to engage the Russian dragoons another 4 squadrons of which joined in on the assault and cuirassiers. Archive 2009-05-01
One of these dragoons is John Loveday, the trumpet-major, the gentle, unassuming son of the miller.
His armies were infantry and dragoon based, using wagon laagers mounted with light cannons to protect against cavalry charges.
When members of the general public - for lack of a more inclusive term, let's call them ‘voters’ - are dragooned into election politics, with or without their consent, the result is usually as unpredictable as it is unedifying.
Remembering how Calvin himself "dragooned" Geneva, let us be thankful for the fortune which, in one of the most critical periods of history, raised to the highest position in Christendom a man who was something more than a sectarian. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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.
A dragoon is a mounted soldier who attacks mounted, and fights dismounted in the defense. Lock n' Loaded: Cracking Down on Bike Theft
There was no way of preparing for it without the most horrendous efforts, the most drastic expedients, to drive and dragoon their empire into the twentieth century.
Those who knew me used to call me 'Brimstone Betty;' and in my own family I went by the name of the 'Bold Dragoon,' much to the miscontentment of my father, who tried hard to bring me to a more feminine habit of Body and frame of mind, both by affectionate expostulation, and by assiduous larruping with a stirrup leather. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
The Dragoons advanced to within rifle range and stopped to take aim.
As the afternoon stretched out into evening, they would mull over words such as dragoon, cabal, strauss and enterprise. Archive 2006-10-29
What's more, he and his crew appear to have dragooned the press into service as disseminators of propaganda and apologists for the failures of administration policy that the government hasn't been able to sidestep.
In 1705 this number was readjusted to four dragoons.
Oriental Club; but Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a delassement after the fatigues incident on this great work), when he saw it, after a month's interval, declared the thing was rubbish, and massacred Britons, Malays, Dragoons, Artillery and all. The Newcomes
The word "dragoon" was a thorn in my tenderest part that rankled and lacerated at every stir. Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
Perhaps I am a farmer myself -- an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats. Roundabout Papers
But my college career convinced my uncle that my forte did not lie in the classics, and Sir George succeeded in inducing him to yield to my wishes, and interested himself so strongly for me that I obtained a cornetcy in the 14th Light Dragoons a week before the regiment sailed for Portugal. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
On 21 August 1914, a squadron of 120 cavalrymen belonging to the 4th Dragoon Guards were sent forward to reconnoitre the land ahead of the advancing British Expeditionary Force.
Wellesley at the head of the 19th Dragoons charging the Mahratta The Newcomes
However, it is almost certain he and other top officials will spend the summer attempting to dragoon local officials and businessmen into slowing development.
Adaptive Indian, Catholic Mexican, acceptive dragoon, one and all respected and believed in it. Marion's Faith.
The world of fantasy did fill her childhood - she wrote books and plays and dragooned her younger brother Roger into playing assorted parts.
Every ten farmsteads were supposed to provide for a fully equipped soldier, including a horse if he was a cavalryman or dragoon.
He had masterminded the enterprise, dragooning his employees to participate in the crime, he said.
It was during this time and while still a major, that he received an audience with Pope Pius VI, who ceremonially placed a Dragoon helmet on Browne's head with the prayer that truth and religion might triumph over injustice and infidelity.
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 The Yeoman Adventurer
And so on, and so on, and so on, till one would have thought they were all trying for tide-waiters 'places, or cornetcies in the heavy dragoons. The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

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