Several large trees were felled and left lying across the path; and the cattle of the villagers, and the more rude hoofs of dragoon horses, had poached into black mud the verdant turf which Waverley had so much admired.
On the sward lay a sword with a severed hand still grasping its hilt, and close by a dead dragoon with a sword-thrust through his heart.
The 4th dragoon guards, the Ancient Britons, under Sir Watkyn Wynne, the Antrim militia, under Colonel Cope, had all entered the defile before the ambuscade was discovered.
Napoleon had other reasons for remembering this officer; it was his dragoon regiment which saved the remnant of the Austrians, at Austerlitz.
A detailed account of this action is given in the Record of the 6th Dragoon Guards; and also in the Record of the Fifth Foot.
The sudden appearance of a dashing dragoon was an event in an old inn, frequented only by the peaceful sons of traffic.
Finally, from different quarters, the 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards and the Royals came up like a whirlwind, and the result of it all was a fight of the wildest and most terrible kind.
At Salamanca, with the 3rd and 4th Light Dragoons, the 5th Dragoon Guards carved their way through a treble thickness of French army columns, under a heavy fire.
The Boers were galloping out of it helter skelter, with Lancers and Dragoon Guards spearing and stamping them into the ground.
The 5th Dragoon Guards were raised by the Earl of Shrewsbury to support James against "King Monmouth" at Sedgmoor.
Some time later, after Salamanca, they were also called the "Green Dragoon Guards.
Ere any answer could be made, or any measure taken in consequence of the corporal's motion, a dragoon galloped towards Sergeant Bothwell, who was considerably a-head of the party he commanded.
O, mair than half-a-dozen dragoon fellows that are a' on the spur whilk to get first to Hamilton.
When Gatelet tells them that there is a Prussian dragoon in the garret, they will come up, three stairs at a time, with sabres in their hands.
She knew that a word whispered to them, a word that a Prussian dragoon had entered Strasburg, would bring instant death to the man who had come into the city because of his promise to her.
I even heard one belle ask a dragoon 'what uniform that was--was it the horse-artillery corps?
The dragoon was a polite nobleman, according to his cloth; so he kept on talking and smiling, till he could walk off without seeming as if he'd got his sabre betwixt his feet; but I fancied him a little down by the head when he did go.
It was an old dragoon government saddle with brass mounted horns both before and behind.
He had a dragoon pistol in his right hand and a Colt's navy in his left.
My father had raised and commanded two corps—a dragoon troop called the Cullenagh Rangers, and the Ballyroan Light Infantry.
I was walking with my son, then belonging to the 5th Dragoon Guards.
How can a man stand up and be preaching his word, when all that he is saying is written down, and he is as much tied to it as iver a thaving dragoon was to the pickets?
Continental dragoon uniform, entered and bowed respectfully to the company.
The fourth was a Mr. Batley, a dragoon officer of the East India Company’s service, who had been captured in the Bell packet, bound to India.
Patience informs the ladies that the 35th Dragoon Guards have arrived.
On the afternoon of the 24th, the enemy's cavalry drove our Dragoon piquets over the different fords of the stream in rear of Atalaya, and established their posts opposite us.
The enemy's cavalry dashed through our camp, and at the spot where the Engineers were engaged in carrying on the work for the siege, captured an officer, and a Dragoon tried to drag him away with him.
I saw a Light Dragoon attack a French Horse Grenadier and trounce him handsomely.
On our arrival at the empty house given over for our occupation, we found threeDragoon officers had remained behind their men, and fully intended staying all night.
Some time after daybreak he heard strange noises within doors, and soon after, a French Dragoon entered his room.
Porthos and Aramis remained behind to encounter the jokes of the dragoon and the Swiss.
The dragoon and the Swiss followed him, and all their comrades followed the dragoon and the Swiss.
He saw active service that year, having his horse shot under him at the battle of Emsdorf, and was only saved from death at the hand of a French dragoon by the intervention of Captain (afterwards General) Ainslie.
