The Dragoons fighting in the English Civil Wars and Thirty Years War are really mounted infantry, musketeers mounted on poorer quality horses. Never as well paid or equipped as their comrades in arms in the cavalry and most likely despised by the footsloggers, the Dragoon had a job to do nevertheless, joining Forlorn Hope parties and guarding the flanks and rear of the army. Often the Dragoons would move forward smartly and then dismount to fight, forming regular musket blocks on the field and responding to drum calls as would any infantry of the time.