(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.
Legion
Definition:
(n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
(n.) A military force; an army; military bands.
(n.) A great number; a multitude.
(n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(2) Until she was 14 or so Clare was just as devout, going to mass each morning, joining the Legion of Mary, visiting old ladies.
(3) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) How badly does he have to play before his legions of cheerleaders in the media will put down their pom-poms and pass comment on it?
(6) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(7) Seann, how do you deal with the legions of female fans you attract?
(8) Protecting the poor and the vulnerable is crucial to the phasing down of these subsidies, but the multiple economic, social and environmental benefits are long and legion.” graph Barack Obama and the G20 nations called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, but little progress had been made until oil prices fell in 2014.
(9) Ben Rubin hasn’t had much sleep over the last few days, and his legions of newly acquired fans have noticed.
(10) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(11) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(12) In human diseases we are rarely able to obtain data at precisely the same time point in the course of the disease even among patients in the same study, and possible confounding variables present are legion.
(13) Therefore there is no reason to claim that there were any direct links between the legion and the war crimes previously committed by military or paramilitary organisations.
(14) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
(15) Mostly, these legions of the displaced are heading for Europe .
(16) Aldi has vowed to maintain the supermarket price war that has drawn legions of cost-conscious shoppers to its aisles as it announced a 65% increase in its UK profits.
(17) Japan's legions of salaried workers have more reason than most to give in to the urge for an afternoon nap.
(18) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(19) A total of 2858 randomly selected American Legion members who had served in Southeast Asia completed a questionnaire which elicited information on military service, personal health, and a variety of mental health outcomes.
(20) He has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Legion of Honour.