Cavalry of all descriptions should be furnished with fire-arms, and should know how to manoeuvre on foot.

Three thousand light cavalry, or three thousand cuirassiers, should not suffer themselves to be stopped by a thousand infantry posted in a wood, or on ground impracticable to cavalry; and three thousand dragoons ought not to hesitate to attack two thousand infantry, should the latter, favored by their position, attempt to stop them.
"Turenne, Prince Eugene of Savoy, and Vendome, attached great importance to dragoons, and used them successfully.

The dragoons gained great glory in Italy, in 1796 and 1797.

In Egypt and in Spain, during the campaigns of 1806 and 1807, a degree of prejudice sprung up against them.

The divisions of dragoons had been mustered at Compiegne and Amiens, to be embarked without horses for the expedition of England, in order to serve on foot until they should be mounted in that country.