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He was one of the dragoons who accompanied Napoleon into Egypt.dragoons = a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
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In this state they set forth with the sharp rain driving in their faces: clattering at a heavy dragoon trot over the uneven town pavement, and out upon the mire-deep roads. (source)
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His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco (source)
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By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, (source)
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You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.† (source)
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At the Middle Dutch Church they pulled out the pulpit, the pews, and the floorboards and let the horses of the Light Dragoons practice.† (source)
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William Howe had been a professional soldier from the time he fin ished school at Eton and at age seventeen received a commission in the Duke of Cumberland's Light Dragoons.† (source)
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And in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, he was knocked from his horse and run through with a bayonet by an Austrian dragoon.† (source)
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Simply put, I was dragooned.† (source)
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How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?† (source)
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Only once did he see a patrol of mounted dragoons.† (source)
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Augustus drew his big dragoon Colt and jammed the barrel into Dan's stomach.† (source)
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He often chose to sleep away the daylight hours some distance from the den site, perhaps in order to reduce the possibility of being dragooned into the role of babysitter at too frequent intervals.† (source)
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I endured it with never a nasty word for Dragoons who searched me; wanted to get home.† (source)
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At Tucson, he headed east along sun-baked two-lane highways, through little towns named Dragoon and Wilcox and Bowie, then across the New Mexico line and towns named Lordsburg and Deming.† (source)
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They simply did not concern her—at least until as his dragooned secretary she began to divine the depth and extent of her father's fiery enthusiasm.† (source)
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