(n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the scene of the first major military engagement in the south during the second Anglo-Afghan war of 1878, when the British fought a cavalry battle against 1,500 fighters.
(2) He attended cavalry school and then qualified as a lawyer from Turin university in 1943, winning him the lifelong nickname l'Avvocato (the lawyer).
(3) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
(4) The old order may not be about to collapse but the thunder of approaching cavalry is growing louder.
(5) Lucan was born in London to an Anglo-Irish peer, and counted among his forbears the 3rd Earl of Lucan, commander of the British cavalry who, acting on Lord Raglan’s orders, ordered Cardigan to lead the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade .
(6) One grassroots organisation, called I Am The Cavalry, aims to do just that.
(7) On one side is Wandering Medicine, whose great-grandfather helped rout George Armstrong Custer and the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 20 miles west of Lame Deer.
(8) The credit crunch hit, which might have been terminal to a project so palpably of the profligate boom years, but then the cavalry appeared, in the form of the property arm of the ruling family of Qatar.
(9) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(10) I did a bit of research into horse behaviour when I started, but a horse psychologist also came in, and we visited a cavalry battalion, which all fed into my scripts.
(11) The soldier from the Light Dragoons cavalry regiment died on Saturday during an operation in the Nahri Saraj district of Helmand province.
(12) Cardinals call for the cavalry Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Wainwright delivers a pitch against the San Diego Padres.
(13) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
(14) "If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
(15) During the second world war Stalin reinstated Cossack cavalry units, but when peace returned they were again forgotten.
(16) He served in a cavalry regiment, both on the Russian front and in Libya, during the second world war and, after Italy changed sides in 1943, fought with the resistance.
(17) You step over toys, and Brown's wife, Sarah, brings tea - but in a Household Cavalry mug.
(18) The QRL, equipped with Challenger battle tanks, is to merge with another cavalry regiment, victims of the perceived policy to end warfare involving heavy armour.
(19) But such objections proved to be minimal and just over a decade later gay rights had been embraced by the military to the extent that a gay man serving in the household cavalry, lance-corporal James Wharton, was able to host his wedding reception at the regimental barracks .
(20) An argument could be made for even further cuts in artillery regiments and armoured cavalry units as the army gets rid of heavy tanks and howitzers.
Cossack
Definition:
(n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the aftermath of the incident, there was considerable confusion over the hecklers’ identities – even within the Cossack community.
(2) So even the Cossack atamans might not be viewed as ‘real Cossacks’ by most residents of the region.” According to Gromov, describing groups as rhyazhenniye also does little to explain away the incidental wrong behaviour of Cossacks.
(3) With parliamentary elections due to take place in September, it’s not just opposition-minded Russians who are worried – some traditional Cossacks are too.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pussy Riot, including Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova in the blue balaclava and Maria Alyokhina in the pink balaclava, are attacked by Cossack militia in Sochi, Russia, on 19 February 2014.
(5) In 2015, roughly 1bn roubles (£10.2m) was sidelined for Cossack groups in the Kuban region, the RBC newspaper reported .
(6) My father had been exiled there in Tsarist times after killing a Cossack who attacked a workers' demonstration that he was taking part in.
(7) An earlier version had the word "Kazakhs" where it should have said "Cossacks".
(8) Valentin Brylev, 65, a Ukrainian Cossack, said that Donetsk is not divided.
(9) February 21, 2014 Updated at 12.53pm GMT 12.45pm GMT Here is a photo from the square today: Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) Don't mess with us: Cossacks beating drums on #Kiev 's Independence Square Friday.
(10) In addition to the huge number of different groups fighting on the Ukrainian side, there is also a ragtag assortment of people fighting for the separatists – a mixture of Cossack militias and others from Russia who may have links with Russian intelligence, people representing local business and criminal interests, and ideologically motivated locals who genuinely believe in the cause.
(11) Recently an MP in the Siberian region of Zabaikalsk called for a law allowing gays to be publicly flogged by Cossacks.
(12) said the Cossack, who would identify himself only as "Mortal," a nickname he said he received fighting in the Russian army during the first Chechen war.
(13) Glitter, who is hard of hearing and was aided throughout the trial by two lip speaking interpreters, arrived at court each day in his trademark dark glasses and a variety of different coloured tailored jackets, patterned silk scarf and a felt or cossack hat.
(14) He has been a friend of the Lebedevs since the young Evgeny approached Tatler about covering a party at Althorp in aid of the Raisa Gorbachev foundation (Tatler co-hosted it and the guests sipped champagne while watching a troop of Cossacks race over the grounds), and he got to know Rothermere's wife, Claudia, after becoming a foundation trustee.
(15) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(16) This is a referendum under the guns of Russians, Cossacks and Chechens."
(17) As part of the tsarist army the Cossacks pursued Napoleon's forces across Europe , finally camping on the Champs Elysées in 1814.
(18) During the second world war Stalin reinstated Cossack cavalry units, but when peace returned they were again forgotten.
(19) 11.40am GMT Russian Cossacks have formed a protective cordon outside the parliament buildings in Crimea, France 24’s international editor Douglas Herbert says .
(20) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.