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- Dragoon - Wikipedia
Dragoon is occasionally used as a verb meaning to subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops; and by extension to compel by any violent measures or threats
- Dragoon Soldier: Historical Background - U. S. National Park Service
The term "dragoon" came from the nickname for their weapon, the carbine or short musket, called "the dragon," which referred to the fire that emits out of the gun when fired, hence the term "dragon" or dragoon soldiers
- Dragoon | Napoleonic Wars, Cavalry, Mounted Infantry | Britannica
Dragoon, in late 16th-century Europe, a mounted soldier who fought as a light cavalryman on attack and as a dismounted infantryman on defense The terms derived from his weapon, a species of carbine or short musket called the dragoon
- DRAGOON Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
A dragoon was a mounted European infantryman of the 17th and 18th centuries armed with a firearm called by the same name We suspect no arm-twisting is necessary to convince you that the firearm's name, which came to English from French, comes from the fired weapon's resemblance to a fire-breathing dragon
- Dragoons in the English Civil Wars - World History Encyclopedia
A typical dragoon could be dressed like a musketeer in other respects with breeches that ended at the knee and stockings They had a short jacket, possibly in the Parliamentary Venetian red that some other troops came to wear as the war wore on
- Dragoon - definition of dragoon by The Free Dictionary
Define dragoon dragoon synonyms, dragoon pronunciation, dragoon translation, English dictionary definition of dragoon ) n A member of a European military unit trained and armed to fight mounted or on foot tr v dra·gooned, dra·goon·ing, dra·goons 1 To subjugate or
- Dragoon - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline
dragoon (n ) 1620s, "cavalry soldier carrying firearms," and thus capable of service either on horseback or on foot, from French dragon, probably so called for the guns they carried, from dragon "carbine, musket," because the guns "breathed fire" like dragons (see dragon)
- dragoon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(by extension) Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1 1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets
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