Meanings (ES + gloss)
dragón
Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun, sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
Near the capital lay also the corps which is now designated as the first regiment of dragoons on the English establishment. […] A single troop of dragoons, which did not form part…
The French persecution more inhuman than ever. The Protestants in Savoy successfully resist the French dragoons sent to murder them.
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presionar
Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
The next step was that suggested by Mr. Townsend, of quartering large bodies of troops upon the chief towns in the colonies, and demanding of the several colonial legislatures, a p…
[A]t any rate, he had shown Hardy that he wasn't to be dragooned into doing or not doing any thing.
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