How To Use Cavalry In A Sentence

General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
The land forces are organised into British, Austrian and French divisions, all of which contain recreations of the original infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments that fought during the Napoleonic wars.
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.

In 1821 the Kakanfo's threat to Abomey and his capability to defend Oyo territory ended in his rout by the Dahomey army, and by 1830 Shabe had been razed and the cavalry no more to be seen.
A lieutenant in the bluejacket of a cavalry regiment came into the room. Sharpe's Honour
Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
The cavalry were too numerous to be maintained solely by the king; rather, each of the seven great town-chiefs had to support, in his own sector of the capital, ten noble warriors and their entourages.
* (* Teacher.) "The sahibs love their soldiers - and so the gora-cavalry broke Lal's string for him tonight! Fiancée
The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
Furthermore, he believed that in modern warfare there was no place for armored cavalry.
Pontoppidan, speaks also of a poulp on which a regiment of cavalry could manoeuvre. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Have the first rank open; let the second be checkerwise; and let firing against cavalry be the only firing to be executed in line. Battle Studies
On a day in which the British cavalry received mixed reviews he did his job effectively and performed very well. Times, Sunday Times
But to cover a real attack on an angle, cavalry sometimes makes a _false attack_ on the front of a square. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry
Acting on reports from his scouts, Antony and the assassin Decimus Turullius set out with several legions and Galatian cavalry and defeated the leading legions; Octavian was compelled to halt. Antony and Cleopatra
The cavalry charged up the hill to engage the rebels.
Eastern senators extolled the peace while Senor Villa descended on the tents & adobes of the 13th Cavalry, Columbus, New Mexico
As defeat stared him in the face he ordered his cavalry to cut their way through the enemy lines and escape to Plymouth.
Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back. Libya: Moving targets | Editorial
He also complains about the 6000 buckboards for the colonels, thousands of saddles for the cavalry, and hundreds of airplane engines that were never used in the war. Mamas Don't Let your Babies grow up to be Soldiers!
In a commander's conference in 1957, he noted that some believed the airmen to be as wedded to the airplane as the cavalrymen was to the horse.
In addition the crusaders used light cavalry and horse archers in large numbers to harass the enemy, to scout, and to supplement the knights.
Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
With 35 horses galloping in a straight line over nine furlongs this famous cavalry charge is a thrilling race, made even more exciting by the hope of backing the winner.
The basic tactical and administrative units of those forces were the regiment and troop for the cavalry and the battalion and company for the foot. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
The cavalry commander predicted that many Sioux would bite the dust if they attacked the fort.
The remaining British cavalry squadrons now charged. The Scottish Regiments
Without the clip-clop of cavalry or neigh of a prince of Windsor, the state opening of the Scottish parliament went off this week.
Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
The duty of the British infantry was now to stave off increasingly heavy attacks from cavalry, infantry and artillery. Times, Sunday Times
He was once an officer in the cavalry.
The redcoats inarched with unloaded muskets for the enemy was still a long way off and there was no sign of the Tippoo Sultan's infantry, nor of his feared cavalry. Sharpe's Tiger
Used mainly as cavalry horses, the walers also excelled as mounts at polo, race meetings, and gymkhanas.
Such sentimentality towards animals helped cavalry men retain their humanity.
Otley's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat.
I will not use single stands and movement trays for this project, although I may retain it for the cavalry since the frontage will be the same 1 per horse as BAR. Alt Modena Cuirassiers
In Afghanistan, mounted cavalry charges sometimes achieved what guided missiles could not.
The High Commands of both countries were dominated by the old traditional cavalry regiments and their political pull was great.
He was arguing with the King about the need to maintain the cavalry at full strength.
He soon saw the ill effects of inebriants on the performance of a cavalry and promoted prohibition.
A cavalry trooper is typically a well-trained ‘jack-of-all-trades’ in the combined arms arena.
A copy of the Cavalry Model - favored by Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart - found its way to the gunroom of Leo Bradshaw in Waco, Texas.
They were then moved to the right to strengthen that flank, at noon, then forward to help repel French cavalry charges at 15.30.
If you had no teeth and no digestion, you were allowed a pint and a half of sowens porridge instead; and thus helped your portion of exhausted cavalry mount or your bit of tough mule-meat down. The Dop Doctor
In four years, it had a hundred cavalrymen in uniform with another thirty-six being trained and a waiting list of more wanting to join. Wild Bill Donovan
They dubbed the cavalrymen “Grub scout,” “Kitchen ranger,” “Bomb Proof,” “Buttermilk spies,” and “Loonies.” Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
Batuman reads Red Cavalry while trying to cook a black forest gateau. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review
The car's horn honked a few times, seemingly sounding a cavalry call.
He is ready to proceed with the implementation of the President's directive about nonsegregation down to the platoon level, and proposes to initiate this in the three cavalry regiments and the AA battalion up north, but does not want to do it if it is premature. "[ Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
Curiously, perhaps anticipating a conflict with Eastern European cavalry forces, his manual also contains advice in facing a charge against lancers.
His cavalry would smash through the redoubts opening the way for the infantry to scale the Russians' wooden walls and engage them in hand-to-hand fighting.
He prepared special archers and cavalry forces for the battles with the invaders.
Such sentimentality towards animals helped cavalry men retain their humanity.
So there I was - Colonel Harry Paget Flashman, late of the 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers and the Staff, former aide to the Commander-in-Chief, and now acting-sowar and rear file in the skirmishing squadron, 3rd Cavalry, Bengal Army, and if you think it was a mad-brained train of circumstance that had taken me there - well, so did I. Fiancée
I was fonder of Tom Tryon in "Texas John Slaughter", sort of a cut-rate pastiche of Ford's cavalry trilogy. Davy Crockett, the Green Hornet, the Phantom and other heroes of my youth who werent really heroes of my youth
In battle, the artillery's role is to provide fire support for the infantry, cavalry, armor and other units.
They were furnished and equipped to cavalry regiment standards with silver, military prints on the walls, costly vintages and rich food. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
He will guiltlessly slide into a fourth-outfielder role when the midseason cavalry arrives.
We filled three nose-bags, such as cavalrymen feed horses in, with paper packages and bottles of quinine. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887
The role of cavalry was far more complicated and is well worth historical study.
The 4th Horse will eventually have 36 figures 3 squadrons and I will add a squadron of Life Guards to the Household Cavalry. Seaforth Update
This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry.
I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. A Legend of Montrose
In response to increasing battlefield firepower, horse cavalry reduced the armor it used.
The rarely-used Scottish state coach, drawn by four white horses, was escorted by two squadrons of the Household Cavalry.
The unit conducting this mission was a standard regimental armored cavalry troop of the early 1990s era.
Cavalry engagements fought in mud proved very costly and from a military point of view, hopeless.
—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col. Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo?
A legion was a military unit of the Roman army made up of infantry and supporting cavalry numbering three to six thousand men.
On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn. Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota
After half an hour of the heaviest cannonade ever known, Wellington's faithful troops were threatened by an avalanche of cavalry, and promptly fell into the "chequer" disposition previously arranged for the most exposed division, that of Alten. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
Alan, the elder, was a soldier, a cavalryman, posted to India at the beginning of 1911, two years before all this. DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Our new owners are coming in like the Cavalry with sabers drawn, ready to vanquish the enemy.
The note makes clear the restructuring will help end the practice of giving cavalry and infantry officers the top jobs. Times, Sunday Times
It's only a matter of time before the cavalry arrives in the shape of gossip magazines.
That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance. Sant' Ilario
After a cavalry charge during the 1916 U. S. expedition in Mexico to capture Pancho Villa, Thorn recommends four soldiers for the Medal of Honor.
The typical cavalry troop organization in the North had 72 troopers and 60 in the South.
This will get your cavalry into close combat and hopefully out of the hail of missiles fairly quickly.
Rim soldiery was everywhere: troopers and cavalry, wagon trains carrying troops and supplies.
The typical team consisted of three cavalry fighting vehicles and two tanks.
He served as an officer in the cavalry and for a couple of years his poster collection lay in his Berlin attic. Times, Sunday Times
Well, most of the reporters are embedded with the Marines and the First Cavalry - one battalion in the First Cavalry.
Several armored cavalry regiments (brigade equivalents) could be kept as independent units.
But see here, Makarram Khan - whatever you've done, whatever you've been, where's the sense in burying yourself in the ranks of a native cavalry pultan? Fiancée
Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
Its chauffeur was upholstered in cherry red, with cavalryman 's boots. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
I was assigned to Troop A of the 10th Cavalry.
What he wanted was to keep a stern eye on his cavalry, led by a Galatian named Amyntas, who had been secretary to old King Deiotarus. Antony and Cleopatra
A cloud of dust on the horizon announced the arrival of the cavalryman.
He said the squadron trained in the usual cavalry tasks such as advances, convoy escort, route reconnaissance, clearance ops and VCPs.
The number of French cavalry losses has not been established. WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
The Spanish adopted their usual tactic of forming up their arquebusiers behind a stout fieldwork, and keeping their foot and cavalry in reserve behind these.
By providing increased firepower, it both made fortification more difficult, and undermined the power of cavalry.
As cavalry platoons became too unwieldy, they were finally replaced by smaller paired tank and scout platoons.
Nor was it long, catching their spirit, ere she was singing to them and teaching them quaint songs of early days which she had herself learned as a little girl from Cady -- Cady, the saloonkeeper, pioneer, and ax-cavalryman, who had been a bull-whacker on the Salt Intake Trail in the days before the railroad. CHAPTER VIII
But see here, Makarram Khan — whatever you've done, whatever you've been, where's the sense in burying yourself in the ranks of a native cavalry pultan? Flashman In The Great Game
In fact, the film repeatedly stages horizontal affiliations that work against the strict hierarchies of the cavalry.
The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
When you signed up, you were asked where you wanted to be, cavalry, archery, footmen, swordsmen, smiths.
The remaining British cavalry squadrons now charged. The Scottish Regiments
British cavalry standards and guidons are made of crimson silk embroidered with the appropriate regimental badges and insignia and battle honours.
Captured princes in torn and draggled finery were put to digging latrine drains and clearing up after the cavalry. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.
The cavalry charged out of nowhere, the hundreds of thundering hooves terrifying the villager who had never seen nor heard more than four horses together before.
Besides the four brigades of Khedivial infantry, together with artillery, cavalry, and camelry, and minor details, the Egyptian army also included a large transport column of some 2800 camels and about as many men. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
This fine body of Indian cavalry and camelry reported that affairs seemed serious up the Tiban valley; then inertia reasserted itself and they were recalled. Pan-Islam
The cavalry horses were watered at the spring, and the men settled in their breastworks.
Roman cataphracts wore similar armour from the second century ad, and transmitted the tradition of armouring arms and legs to the heaviest units of the Byzantine cavalry.
The Cavalry commander had the armoured cars with him and was later reinforced by 1,500 infantry soldiers who were sent forward in Ford cars.
Each combat command typically employed liaison aircraft and mechanized cavalry troops for route reconnaissance and early warning of enemy positions.
In 1898 Roosevelt saw combat as commander of the First US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as The Rough Riders, in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
The multitude fled with precipitation towards the city; several were slain, and many more were trampled to death; but when the cavalry entered the streets, their pursuit was checked by a shower of stones and darts from the roofs and windows of the houses. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
One of their number, an old Macedonian cavalryman named Callines, came forward to speak for the men. Alexander the Great
The 4th Horse will eventually have 36 figures 3 squadrons and I will add a squadron of Life Guards to the Household Cavalry. Seaforth Update
Davout deployed all of his artillery on the French side of the river which was not fordable, so it could only be crossed at one of the two bridges spanning the water so that it could enfilade any Russian attack on the long ridge that was perpendicular to the Russian cavalry, thereby screening the advancing French infantry. Archive 2009-05-01
One lady I know then imagines her own cavalry, riding to her aid to repel the invaders. Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
It was a classic example of a successful Highland charge, but Bonnie Dundee was killed as he led his cavalry into the firing line, and the rebellion petered to a halt within months.
Then all that was left unslain of their cavalry turned and fled far away. The Lord of the Rings
If those strong blue columns, or even the blue cavalry, outmarched the Southerners, the only line of escape would be to the north—the direction opposite that of the desired movement to unite with Johnston.28 LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
SDE is headquartered in the West Valley, where Warner Bros. used to shoot its Westerns and cavalry pictures, back in those halcyon days when the San Fernando Valley was a collection of orchards and truck farms ... before the heavy asphalt-covered hand of urbanization reached out from Los Angeles. Archive 2008-09-01
It is a fallacy that this was to ensure that they had the best cavalry - it was to provide them with the best day out that a denarius coin could buy.
The unit conducting this mission was a standard regimental armored cavalry troop of the early 1990s era.
It's usually worth protecting those high-cost cavalry units with a banner of Arcane Warding or Protection.
The contributions of each village household for the quartering, re-equipment of the cavalry, and public works at Corinth were decided by the village elders in consultation with the syndics of the comunita.
He planted his cannon upoa them, and kept up a heavy fire upon the Britifh troops below, while his numerous cavalry attacked them on every fids* This unequal confix lafted till History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783
In the 17th century, the musketeer and his relatively sophisticated weapon was protected from being ridden down by cavalry by protective screens of pikemen.
When the Cavalry invested Indian encampments, they periodically encountered warrior braves beside women and children.
The third Infantry brigade with its Mountain battery and one or two troops of Cavalry formed the rear guard. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
A troop of our cavalry recaptured the camels. Times, Sunday Times
The men who they select from the whole force and station in the van are fleet of foot and fit admirably into cavalry action.
General Heron reports that the two battalions under your command fought with extraordinary steadiness, and repulsed all the attempts of his cavalry to break them; and finally succeeded in drawing off to the mountains, with the exception of the two companies that formed the rear guard. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
A guidon is traditionally carried by cavalry units in battle and marks the rally point for the troops before commencing the battle.
Times when the enemy ‘entered by force’ with infantry or cavalry units have passed.
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the Barbarians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It depicts a scene of purposeful activity - farriers shoeing; grooms tending huge chargers; a vet and orderly sergeant inspecting; men sweeping; cavalrymen feeding horses.
The axmen were ordered up, and while they were clearing away the obstructions I rode ahead with the cavalry to the summit, and some four miles on the ridge beyond. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
In 1930 Weygand launched a programme to motorize seven infantry divisions and he initiated the creation of an armoured division in the cavalry in October 1933.
I would argue that now, every soldier is also a cavalry trooper.
Occasionally the fine chance occurs to atack the foe while encamping or breakfasting or supping, or as the men turn out of bed: seasons at which the soldier is apt to be unharnessed — the hoplite for a shorter, the cavalry trooper for a longer period. 120 The Cavalry General
I sat around for a while until the cavalry arrived, in this case being family.
This report, scrawled on thin rice paper, told of a cavalry encounter at Ping Yang after a detachment of Cossacks on reconnaissance had crossed the Yalu and struck 200 miles deep into Korea. JACK LONDON'S WAR
It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended. Rob Roy
Gee, and so far in my story, the main nag is the guy saying, “why can’t we call the cavalry to ride in?” Home is where the hero isn’t at SF Novelists
He was wearing the uniform of a second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment. Times, Sunday Times
The substantial remains of the cavalry fort include a bath house showing the sophisticated workings of the underfloor heating system.
My Uncle George explained that the man in the photo was the old farmer's father, who had picked up the pistol from a dead Confederate cavalryman at the battle of Gettysburg.
Captain Asa G. Freeman had an extra horse, and I got on him and joined the cavalry for several days, but all the time some passing cavalryman would make some jocose remark about "Here is a webfoot who wants to jine the cavalry, and has got a bayonet on his gun and a knapsack on his back. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
In addition to shortages on armor plates there has also been a shortage on assault rifles, requiring the military to outfit one man per platoon with a cavalry saber.
The cavalry commander predicted that many Sioux would bite the dust if they attacked the fort.
It was not uncommon for a brigade to have a cavalry troop or artillery battery as part of its organic makeup.
They counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry.
The cavalry commander predicted that many Sioux would bite the dust if they attacked the fort.
The English inflicted heavy casualties against seemingly insuperable odds because they used longbows to attack the opposing cavalry.
The English soldiers waded into the chaos armed with hatchets and billhooks and, backed up by their own small cavalry and the threat of their longbows, succeeded in dispersing the whole French army.
In 55 BC, Celtic warriors used cavalry and horse-drawn chariots to oppose Caesar's invasion.
The nature of this cavalry charge will suit him perfectly. The Sun
The basic tactical and administrative units of those forces were the regiment and troop for the cavalry and the battalion and company for the foot. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
The situation was saved by a mass counter-attack of French cavalry, checking the allied advance, though failing to break through the allied lines.
Foot and archers on their left kept the Turkish mounted bowmen out of range of the cavalry and guarded the baggage on the seaward right.
Later he commanded a tank battalion, an armored brigade and the First Cavalry Division.
Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns. The Pity of War
My new friends wore sports jackets and cavalry twill trousers; they had Old Soldier written all over them. TOY SHOP
A similar danger recalled the intrepid prince to the defence of the front; and, as he galloped through the columns, the centre of the left was attacked, and almost overpowered by the furious charge of the Persian cavalry and elephants. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.
Despite these troubles, Union cavalry operating in advance of Steele's infantry had success.
William would not have been able to move his cavalry through this area as the horses would have been bogged down.
As the wagons were corralled into an even tighter circle at the Crescent, the Trust arrived like the cavalry in the nick of time.
Each section was divided into three rows - the archers, the infantry and the cavalry.
From their fast, lightly equipped mounted warriors, evolved the hussars of the 18th and 19th centuries, who in turn became the template for light cavalry the world over.
At the Pentagon, however, senior naval officials appear smugly confident that the Chinese would turn tail once the U. S. carriers show up like the cavalry.
But by 300 BC, these tribes had acquired horses and used their equestrian skills to develop very effective cavalry tactics.
Tall, handsome, unscrupulous, with splendid curling black cavalry whiskers, Flashman is also a compulsive womaniser.
The sudden appearance of the Texan riflemen outside the Alamo look Urrea by surprise, but he was quick of perception and action, and his cavalrymen were the best in the Mexican army. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad
Toward the end of one song, David Johnson busted out a cavalry call on the trumpet.
On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
He had infantry, cavalry, arquebusiers, Cossacks and many Tartars, with heavy artillery, which was shipped down the Volga.
This drill also allows cavalry men to prepare for battle on foot.
Valentinian, encompassed with the eagles of the legions, and the various banners of the cavalry and infantry, was conducted, in warlike pomp, to the palace of Nice. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
_quatrième partie de trompette d'une fanfare de cavalerie_ -- that is, the name 'toquet' was applied to the fourth trumpet in a cavalry fanfare. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
General confusion broke out and the cavalry charged the crowd.
For example, an infantryman with a rifled musket was a greater threat to artillerymen and cavalrymen.
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Juan Pizarro and the cavalry broke out of Cusco, circled around and attacked the Inca in Sacsayhuaman (during the attack Juan was killed by a slingstone). Exploring the Inca Heartland: Cusco and Nearby Sites
The battle is often referred to as the last successful cavalry charge in history. Times, Sunday Times
There remained French's Cavalry Division, with Hutton's Mounted Infantry, which could not have exceeded two thousand sabres and rifles.
By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz. Archive 2009-03-01
In 1899 Buller asked for him to command the cavalry division in South Africa.
On February 27th Sheridan, with two divisions of cavalry, ten thousand sabers, moved up the Valley to Staunton.
The Red Army used infantry and cavalry units to move more resolutely and to a deeper depth.
In the mid-1970s, I served in an armored cavalry regiment positioned in Germany's Fulda Gap.
Like other forms of body armour, metal helmets were generally abandoned in Latin Europe around 1660, but were revived around 1810 for units of heavy cavalry and dragoons, and are still worn by such units on formal occasions.
A premature attack on Mountjoy's forces resulted in a rout by his cavalry and a long retreat back to Ulster through a hostile countryside.
Boards of highly paid, bonus-rich directors seem to be bunkered down behind a dithering yeomanry of press officers and media advisers as the regulatory cavalry charges in.
I wish I could say the cavalry was coming, but it is not in the short term.

How To Use Cavalry In A Sentence

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