As soon as the enemy came within gun-shot they made a furious fire; and it is said that the dragoons which constituted the left wing immediately fled.
Favoured by the night, one large body of dismounted dragoons attempted to force the enclosures, while another, equally strong, strove to penetrate by the highroad.
About sixty or seventy dragoons lay slain within the first enclosure, upon the highroad, and on the open moor.
In the meanwhile Waverley turned the instructions he had received while in Gardiner's dragoons to some account, and assisted the Baron in his command as a sort of adjutant.
This announced the approach of the Prince, who came up with a party of Fitz-James's foreign dragoons that acted as his body-guard.
The court was occupied by a squadron of dragoons and a battalion of infantry, drawn up in hollow square.
This morning there were marched 200 dragoons for the sea-coast, to look out for the English, and this evening Colonel Cordero was to have marched to join them.
Allencaster, had heard it was the intention of the Utah Indians to attack me; had detached an officer with 50 dragoons to come out and protect me; and that they would be here in two days.
Where the road traverses it, it is at least 150 yards wide, and has a guard of dragoonsstationed on its banks.
Here we overtook Sergeant Belardie with the party of dragoons from Senora and Biscay, who had left us at Fort Elisiaira, where we had received a new escort.
After waiting a time until a favorable opportunity presented itself, the General sent a detachment of dragoons to arrest him.
Colonel Hugh Sutherland was ordered to march against Enniskillen with a regiment of dragoons and two regiments of foot.
Ginkell ordered the attack to be made at a place which was out of the range of the guns; and his dragoonsdashed gallantly into the water, though it was so deep that their horses were forced to swim.
His musketeers had still to learn how to load their pieces: his dragoons had still to learn how to manage their horses; and these inexperienced recruits were for the most part commanded by officers as inexperienced as themselves.
Hamilton's dragoons ran at the first fire: he was severely wounded; and his second in command was shot dead.
In fact, several regiments of horse and dragoons had been sent northward under the command of Ginkell, one of the bravest and ablest officers of the Dutch army.
The Irish dragoons who had run away in the morning were smitten with another panic, and, without striking a blow, galloped from the field.
The Duke of Berwick was to come from the north, with such horse and dragoons as could be spared from the army which was besieging Londonderry.
The Irish dragoonswere bad; the Irish infantry worse.
Indeed the dragoons who set the example of flight were not in the habit of waiting for orders to turn their backs on an enemy.
Hamilton, the commander of the Whigs, had skilfully posted his men in a boggy strait with a broad ditch in front, and the dragoons in attempting to charge were thrown into utter disorder.
Fairfax's army had had a series of encounters with an outlying troop of Royalist dragoons on approaching the town, and by the time they drew near the day was nearly spent.
The dragoons were indeed climbing into their saddles again, and forming across the road, with the evident intention of charging down upon us.
Why, I have seen that lad pick up a full-size sergeant of dragoons and throw him into a cart as though he had been a clod of earth.
First rode the dragoons with their standards and kettledrums, then the javelin-men with their halberds, and behind them the line of coaches full of the high dignitaries of the law.
With thedragoons round us we should be like a flock of sheep amid a pack of wolves.
Mounting at his leisure, amid a shower of bullets which puffed up the white dust all around him, he rode onwards towards the dragoons and discharged one of his pistols at them.
Present my compliments to--' The dragoons charged down upon us again.
As to the two troopers, they rode on either side of me as silent as statues; for the common dragoons of those days could but talk of wine and women, and were helpless and speechless when aught else was to the fore.
Half-a-dozen dragoons seized the further end of the coil, and stood ready to swing me into eternity.
Of our Brush with the King's Dragoons Some little distance from us a branch road ran into that along which we and our motley assemblage of companions-in-arms were travelling.
Close by her two swarthy dragoons in the glaring red coats of the Royal army lay stretched across each other upon the floor, dark and scowling even in death.
If we who have horses, and a few others, were to keep the dragoons in play, the people might be able to reach it, and so be sheltered from the fire.
Amongst the officers of the Scotch dragoons there were some who had not forgotten their old chief, and who were ready to avail themselves of any favourable opportunity that occurred to join themselves to him.
I am informed that the most convenient post for quartering the dragoonswill be Moffat, Lochmaben and Annan; whereby the whole country may be kept in awe.
But, on the other hand, by mentioning the execution amongst other alleged instances of Claverhouse’s cruelty, he leaves the reader under the impression that it was he and his dragoons who acted as judge and jury.
But the Captain, continues the account, peremptorily refused, and drawing off his men to a distance, swore he would fight Claverhouse and his dragoons rather than act the part of executioner.
With a view to remedying this, he strongly and repeatedly urged the necessity of having a constant force of dragoons in garrison; and, in the meantime, he took vigorous measures to carry out the work entrusted to him.
What the scared citizens took for a serious attack was merely a demonstration, devised for the purpose of affording the friendly dragoons an opportunity of effecting a junction with Dundee.
Colonel Buchan marched with the foot and dragoons some miles on the right of my troop, and I, with the Guards and my Lord Ross and his troop up by the (Shaire?
He was obliged, he said, to let the dragoons quarter at large; and he was convinced that this was extremely improper at a time when the Council seemed resolved to proceed vigorously against the disaffected.
I will send one every Monday, and thedragoons one every Thursday, so that I will have the happiness to give your Lordship account of our affairs twice a week, and your Lordship occasion to send your commands for us as often.
At once he directed three dragoons to fall out and ordered them to fire.
One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the battle of Miami assured the writer, that the red men could not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots.
Wayne, in his celebrated campaign on the Miami, received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their covers before they had time to load.
The dragoons ranged around the weapon, keeping their backs to it.
A platoon of maroon dragoons dragged in a queer apparatus.
The ideas of dragoons and inspiration do not coalesce so easily as might be wished; but, with this exception, I think that his purple patches are almost irreproachable, and may be read and re-read with increasing delight.
The French guards were surprised and overpowered, and a detachment of dragoons fled in a panic.
One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the battle of Miami assured the writer, that the redmen could not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather-stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabres and boots.
Her well-armed dragoons had ridden, with bloody hoofs, over the timid and naked natives.
These were at once checked and formed up in front of the town, the French still retiring slowly, with a few English dragoons hanging on their heels.
This new direction did not help us, however; for almost at once a bugle was sounded above, obviously as a warning to the dragoons at the foot of the pass, who halted and spread themselves along the lower slopes to cut us off.
I could, perhaps, force General Bacellar to spare his squadron of dragoons from Celorico.
When the dragoons were let loose on us they burnt her father's furniture, and beat him within an inch of his life.
He was ill in bed; the dragoons were there; and my aunt begged me to stay as a safeguard.
I said, "Don't you know the dragoons are in Nismes?
Till the dragoons find us out, perhaps," said my father, gravely; which silenced her for a little while.
I trust thedragoons did not misuse thy good uncle.
You have not noticed any of thedragoons lurking about outside, I hope?
I am told the dragoons have tried that trick with many ladies of quality.
I have just left your neighborhood; the dragoons are turning your house out of window.
But when the dragoons came I was thankful to be what I was.
He was on his way to Dundee now, and to-morrow he would be there, but he cared little what the dragoons would do; he had other folk to deal with.
His dragoons are ignorant and ungodly men, accustomed to blood, but after hearing that prayer their hearts were softened within them and they refused to fire.
Livingstone was for the moment safe in his fastness, and it was evident that the dragoons were not in a mind to desert their colors.
Times without number he had been chased on the moors; often he had been hidden cunningly in shepherd's cottages, twice he had eluded the dragoons by immersing himself in peat-bogs, and once he had been wounded.
I gather she has been doing what she can for the cause wi' them slippery rascals o' dragoons and their Laodicean commander, of whom I have my ain thoughts.
My suspicions were aroused by that little besom Kirsty, when I saw her ane day comin' oot from the quarters of Colonel Livingstone, wha commands the dragoons at Dundee.
He had planned weeks ago to visit Dundee again and give the chance to Livingstone's dragoons to join him, for he had reason to believe that they were not unalterably loyal.
He hoped that the dragoons had not been troublesome or come about the castle?
Have the dragoons been here, and are there any hid in this place?
What brought you from Livingstone's dragoons to us?
The Covenanters, who were never averse to fighting, had turned upon Claverhouse and his dragoons when they came to disperse a field-meeting at Drumclog, and had soundly beaten the King's Horse.
Do not tell me that MacKay has ordered the castle to be seized, and that the dragoons have insulted my family; this were an outrage on the laws of war.
Two or three dragoons stood on the wall near a pot of burning pitch, their arms crossed on their long white cloaks, covered from head to foot with blood, like butchers.
Those advancing to their left, near Rippach, glittering in the sun, are the dragoons and cuirassiers of the Russian Imperial Guard.
The major made known its tenor by ordering "boots and saddles" to be sounded; and before the sweat had become dry upon the horses, the dragoons were once more upon their backs.
Just as the sunbeams began to dance upon the crystal waters of the Leona, the excursionists were ready to take their departure from the parade-ground--with an escort of two-score dragoonsthat had been ordered to ride in the rear.
The murderers might be a thousand, the avengers were but the tenth of that number: consisting of some fifty dragoons who chanced to be in garrison, with about as many mounted civilians.
Caught by the excitement of the moment Phil vaulted over the wall, and just as the dragoons came spurring by with drawn swords poised ready for the encounter, he and Tony dashed out and joined them.
The latter pulled up immediately, hesitated for a moment, and were on the point of flying, when the impossibility of getting away from dragoons mounted on fresh English horses occurred to them.
Then others appeared, and just as we were thinking of giving in, a patrol of dragoons rode up.
The light troops, volunteers and militia, pursued immediately on learning his flight; and some of the mounted men made prisoners, five dragoons of the 19th, and several others of the rear guard.
With one united voice the dragoons of De Soto demanded to be led forward.
The officers and the dragoons of De Soto, wearing defensive armor, generally escaped unharmed.
De Soto and his dragoons put spurs to their horses and hastened forward, hoping to extinguish the conflagration.
Two warriors who had tarried behind, were captured as the dragoons came dashing into the streets.
It was late in the afternoon of a November day, 1533, when the dragoons of De Soto, closely followed by the whole Spanish army, entered the burning streets of Cuzco.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dragoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
