Dragonnade /(drăg`ŏn*nād")/

Drag·on·nade

Dragonnade

n.
  1. 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.