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Cavalry
Definition:
(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.