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Dragonnade
Dragonnade Drag`on*nade" (dr[a^]g`[o^]n*n[=a]d"), n. [F., fr.
dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the
Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis
XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid
and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C.
Kingsley.
Meaning of Agonn from wikipedia
- in the
Irish annals:
Saxolb (Soxulfr) in 837,
Turges (Þurgestr) in 845,
Agonn (Hákon) in 847. Áed
Oirdnide of the Cenél nEógain
branch of the Northern...
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Annals of Ulster, for example,
reports the
deaths of Saxolb, Tuirgéis,
Agonn, and
Tomrair in the 830s and 840s,
before naming the
first living Viking...
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attested by the
Annals of
Ulster are
Saxolb (died 837), Tuirgéis (died 845),
Agonn (died 847), and
Tomrair himself. The annal-entries that note
these men all...
