Dragoon
Dragoons were originally a type of mounted infantry. They used horses to move around, but got off the horses to fight on foot. They were also used as cavalry and were trained to fight with swords on horseback.[1] The name is taken from a type of firearm, called a "dragon". The dragon was a handgun version of a blunderbuss. It was carried by dragoons of the French Army.[2][3] In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, most European armies had dragoons. In modern times, some armoured or ceremonial mounted regiments still call themselves dragoons.
Dragoon Media
- 02 187 Book illustrations of Historical description of the clothes and weapons of Russian troops.jpg
Mounted Russian dragoon armed with an infantry long gun, c. 1710
- Le Dragon missionnaire.jpg
Cartoon of a French dragoon intimidating a Huguenot in the Dragonnades
- Volontaires de Saxe, Dragon (cropped).jpg
French dragoon of the Volontaires de Saxe regiment, mid-18th century
- Officier de dragons Mexique 1826.jpg
Picture depicting a Mexican dragoon officer in 1826 - German dragoons near Reims 1914.jpg
German dragoons near Reims 1914
- Karlsruhe Leibdragonerdenkmal.jpg
Baden dragoon in a World War I monument at Karlsruhe. While almost an anachronism after the early stages of that war, German dragoons did see continuing service on the Eastern Front until 1917. With functional Stahlhelm helmet.
- Pedro Américo - Independência ou Morte - Google Art Project.jpg
Prince Regent Pedro of Braganza (later Emperor of Brazil as Pedro I) declares the Brazilian independence while surrounded by his guard of honour, which later became known as Independence Dragoons, 7 September 1822
- Lula Chirac Alvorada.JPG
The Independence Dragoons during the arrival ceremony of French president Jacques Chirac at the Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília, 25 May 2006
- Memorial Stained Glass window, 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, Royal Military College of Canada.jpg
Memorial stained glass window at Royal Military College of Canada of 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, a member of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, an armoured regiment of the Canadian Army and Canadian Forces
References
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- Napoleonic Cavalry: Dragoons, Cuirassiers
- Saskatchewan Dragoons (Canada)
- British Columbia Dragoons (Canada)
- First Regiment of Cavalry (USA) Archived 2021-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
- The Society of the Military Horse
- “Field Marshal Nieto” Regiment of Cavalry (Perú) Archived 2019-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Perú 1970: Changing of the Dragoon Guard