A suit of clothing borrowed from a scarecrow made an improvised disguise, and Syn and Mipps were able to rescue the townsfolk from the Dragoons.

The experimental horse platoon was so successful that its entire parent battalion was transformed from an armored reconnaissance unit to a three squadron horse battalion known as the " Dragoons of Angola ".

One of the typical operations carried out by the Dragoons of Angola, in cooperation with airmobile forces, consisted of the dragoons chasing the guerrillas and pushing them in one direction, with the airmobile troops being launched from helicopter in the enemy rear, trapping the enemy between the two forces.

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

The Portuguese Rapid Reaction Brigade ' Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron – a unit from the 3rd Regiment of Cavalry – is known as the " Paratroopers Dragoons ".

It is hidden in Viper Manor — the home of a terrible and powerful aristocrat named Lynx, who gained control of the estate after usurping power from and killing the Acacia Dragoons, a familial unit of warriors.

Members of the Battalion are known to have deserted from U. S. Army regiments including: the 1st Artillery, the 2nd Artillery, the 3rd Artillery, the 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry, the

The Martins care for both British and American wounded from the nearby battle, before British Dragoons led by a ruthless Colonel William Tavington ( Jason Isaacs ) arrive and arrest Gabriel.

At 2 o ’ clock on Monday morning, 10 July, one hundred Dragoons from the Parliament forces arrived ahead of the main army at Eaton Ford.

On 13 May 1915 as a Captain in the Royal Dragoons Julian stood talking with other officers, a shell landed a few yards from them, and a splinter of the shell hit him in the head.

" This intelligence had been provided by Colonel Thomas Hinds ' Squadron of Light Dragoons, a militia unit from the Mississippi Territory.

Oudinot had encountered the Guard cavalry deputy commander, General Louis Lepic, who sharply refused to commit his men, saying that he only recognised the Duke of Istria ( Bessières ) as commander and that without explicit orders from its commander, the Guard Horse Grenadiers and Dragoons would not draw their swords.

He was fair complexioned, and had " a high nose, which was broken down by a kick from a horse soon after he went into the Tenth Dragoons ".

Tarleton and the remainder of the Dragoons were sent off to the right flank to join Bose and put an end to the action from Washington.

" For three months, Cornwallis raided every farm or plantation he came across, from which he took hundreds of horses for his Dragoons.

The regiment's nickname, the " Cherry Pickers ", came from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons ( as the regiment was then named ) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain.

The eight squadrons of the Heavy Brigade consisted of two each from the Scots Greys, the 6th Dragoons, 4th Dragoon Guards, and the 5th Dragoon Guards ; the brigade's remaining two squadrons from the 1st Royal Dragoons were left in their original position to the west of No. 6 redoubt.

The New Acquisition entered into vocal opposition to Royal authority in 1780 only after three " invasions " of the region: the first by Banastre Tarleton and his " Green Dragoons ", and two more by Lord Cornwallis.

Banastre Tarleton's Light Dragoons had been in the vanguard of the approach up the road and were briefly engaged by Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee's Dragoons ( Lee's Legion ) some 4 miles ( 6 km ) short of the Guilford Court House.

The British 23rd Regiment of Foot sent reinforcements forward, and Lee withdrew, having suffered badly at the hands of Tarleton's Light Dragoons in previous actions at Tarrant's House and Weitzell's Mill.

Following on were Tarleton's Light Dragoons, plus 1 troop of the 17th Light Dragoons, ready to go where circumstances required.

Over to the left, elements of the 23rd Regiment started to appear, and part of Tarleton's Light Dragoons charged up the road.

* The British Columbia Dragoons, a Canadian Forces armoured regiment based in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

A number of armored regiments in the British Army retain the historic designations of Hussars, Dragoons, Dragoon Guards or Lancers.

There are three dragoon regiments in the Canadian Forces: the Royal Canadian Dragoons and two reserve regiments, the British Columbia Dragoons and the Saskatchewan Dragoons.

* British Columbia Dragoons ( Canada )

Scotland the Brave is also the authorised pipe band march of The British Columbia Dragoons of the Canadian Forces, and is played during the Pass in Review at Friday parades at The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute.

The British guns and Tarleton ’ s Light Dragoons moved forward along the road keeping pace.

Lieutenant Macleod, in command of two British 3-pounders, had just arrived and was directed to fire on the Dragoons.

The brigade consisted of the 1st Royal and 6th Inniskilling Regiments of Dragoons in the first line and the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) in reserve.

The 20 British Dragoons also fled.

* Dragoons, British Legion

In the fall of 1778, he was assigned to the 3rd Continental Light Dragoons, severely mauled in a surprise attack on the night of September 27 at Old Tappan, New Jersey, by a force of British light infantry.

On March 10, 1780, Washington ’ s regiment joined forces with the remnants of the 1st Continental Light Dragoons at Bacon's Bridge, South Carolina, to reconnoiter and screen against the advancing British.

* Light Dragoons, a British Army cavalry regiment.

He then travelled through Europe and India before joining the 4th Dragoons regiment of the British Army in 1808.

As General Latour-Maubourg, four squadrons of dragoons and hussars and three battalions of the 100th Light Infantry moved the cannons to Badajoz the following week, a combined force of the 1st and 7th Portuguese Cavalry and the British 13th Light Dragoons, commanded by Brigadier General Robert Ballard Long, charged and scattered the French 26th Dragoons.

Among the most famous mercenary groups are the Wolf's Dragoons, Eridani Light Horse, Kell Hounds, Northwind Highlanders, Gray Death Legion, and McCarron's Armored Cavalry.

Also not truly a Successor State, mercenaries play a large role in the Inner Sphere, and some of the larger groups have considerable political and military influence, such as the Kell Hounds, the Wolf's Dragoons, and the Gray Death Legion.

During 1780, the Legion received reinforcements in the form of more drafts from Emmerich's Chausseurs and the Prince of Wales ' American Volunteers, and the permanent attachment of the Bucks County Dragoons.

During the First World War, the Legion of Frontiersmen helped form Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the 19th Alberta Dragoons, 49th CEF Battalion ( today's Loyal Edmonton Regiment ), the 210th Canadian Expeditionary Force ( Frontiersmen Battalion ), and the 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

By that afternoon, his advance force of 60 dragoons from the 17th Light Dragoons and the British Legion cavalry, 60 mounted infantry from the British Legion, and an additional flanking force of 30 British Legion dragoons and some infantry, had reached Buford's resting place.

He served in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons from 1942 to 1945, and was later president of Branch No. 158 of the Royal Canadian Legion from 1960 to 1965.