dthragoons

Updated: May 1, 2025

I have already recorded how the Palladians on that memorable occasion displayed a keen appreciation of the better part of valour, and I also marked my surprise that after it had taken "the fut and the dthragoons in shquadrons and plathoons," and "the boys who fear no noise" to boot, to bring the "makings" of a police hut from the railway station, where they lay "Boycotted," to Bourke's farm, twenty-five constables should have been judged a sufficiently imposing force to overawe the Palladians and to build the hut.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

Av it was the cavalry and it's me own father that was in the Innishkillen Dthragoons, Miss oi wouldn't moind.

Bret Harte - The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales