A light-armed cavalry soldier or mounted soldier of the 15th-16th centuries, similar to a dragoon or harquebusier.
From French 'argolet,' possibly derived from 'argol' or from a diminutive formation. The term was used in medieval and Renaissance European military terminology.
Argolets were the light cavalry of Renaissance armies—fast and deadly with early firearms, they were the special forces of the 1500s before the term 'commando' was even invented!
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