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French dragoon of the Volontaires de Saxe regiment, mid-18th century. A non-military use of dragoons was the 1681 Dragonnades, a policy instituted by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenot families into either leaving France or re-converting to Catholicism by billeting ill-disciplined dragoons in Protestant households. While other categories of ...
A French dragoon (c. 1700).. Dragoons originally were mounted infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills.However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional light cavalry units and personnel.
7th Dragoon Guards. Dragoon Guards is a designation that has been used to refer to certain heavy cavalry regiments in the British Army since the 18th century. While the Prussian and Russian armies of the same period included dragoon regiments among their respective Imperial Guards, different titles were applied to these units.
The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. ... the UK military support to the civil authorities in the province.
The "dragoon" regiments of the line had distinguished themselves in the German campaign of 1805, and therefore Napoleon decided to reorganize the cavalry of the Guard and create within it a regiment of dragoon guards. This regiment was colloquially known as the Dragons de l'Impératrice (Empress' Dragoons), in honor of Empress Joséphine.
A heavy brigade is a formation made up from 'Heavy' Cavalry; i.e. Dragoon Guards and Dragoons. The Heavy Brigade was a British heavy cavalry unit commanded by General Sir James York Scarlett at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. The Brigade of 800 horsemen made a charge against Russian cavalry. The Russian force was in retreat and had ...
The 4th Hussars of Canada was a light cavalry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army).In 1936, the regiment was Amalgamated with The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards to form the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (currently on the Supplementary Order of Battle).
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