dragoons
Cavalry with carbines
Dragoons were originally mounted infantry soldiers who could fight on horseback or on foot, though the term later came to designate cavalry units in various European armies.
The verb dragoon means to coerce or pressure someone into doing something, often through harassment or intimidation—a sense that developed from the historical practice of using dragoons to suppress civilian populations.
The government dragooned citizens into compliance through military force.
She was dragooned into organizing the company picnic.
Colonel-led military unit
- troopersEnlisted cavalry soldiers
- cavalryMounted military force
- mountedFixed in position
- horsebackAtop a steed
sabers · carbine · charge · squadron · brigade · hussars · lancers · cuirassiers
Force upon contact
- forceStrength or compulsion
- intimidateInstill fear to control
- compelForce to act
- bullyHabitual intimidator
threaten · constrain · oblige · coercion · strong-arm · press-gang · browbeat · railroad
regiment
Colonel-led military unit
horseback · sabers · carbine · charge · squadron · brigade · hussars · lancers · cuirassiers · guards
pressure
Force upon contact
- forceStrength or compulsion
- intimidateInstill fear to control
- compelForce to act
bully · threaten · constrain · oblige · coercion · strong-arm · press-gang · browbeat · railroad · conscript
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- military forcesarmy, allied forces, soldiers, troops, coalition forces
- soldiersinfantryman, private, grenadier, grenadiers, fusilier
- toy soldierstin soldier, tin soldiers, lead soldier, wooden soldier, nutcracker
- warriorsfighter, knight, footsoldier, barbarian, samurai
- historical warfaremusket, bayonet, cannon, flintlock, cavalry
dragoonsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · footmen · marines · artillery · naval forces
dragoonsheavy cavalry
Armored mounted soldiers
cuirassiers · knights · lancers · armored cavalry · hussars