| 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. |
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| The fort was garrisoned by 500 cavalrymen, initially by Asturians from northern Spain. |
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| For example, an infantryman with a rifled musket was a greater threat to artillerymen and cavalrymen. |
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| The West was really won not by blue-coated cavalrymen, but thanks to iron horses funded in the east by speculators. |
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| They are some of the most experienced cavalrymen in Europe and can persuade their steeds into breathtaking acts of speed. |
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| Neither would he be put to any work. Such sentimentality towards animals helped cavalrymen retain their humanity. |
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| 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. |
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| Others will be even more intrigued by the author's vivid recreation of the tribulations of 19th-century cavalrymen. |
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| The cavalrymen charged on towards Usküb, the capital of Macedonia, which they took by surprise on the 29th September. |
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| The women ran in all directions and, a moment later, I found myself alone with the two cavalrymen. |
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| The Gaul army returned with no less than 240,000 foot soldiers and 8,000 cavalrymen. |
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| A famous anecdot marks this day: the Helder bay was frozen and Pichegru's cavalrymen have charged against the ships locked in the ice. |
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| It comprised 200 Canadian volunteers, good cavalrymen under the leadership of five French officers and divided into two companies. |
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| The more talented cavalrymen in the armies of Wesnoth are trained in the use of the crossbow, and matched with much more powerful steeds. |
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| The Romanian Army even agreed to commit 40,000 soldiers and 10,000 cavalrymen to use for the battle sequences. |
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| Dan hefted the pistol in his hand, watching the oncoming cavalrymen. |
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| Along the route, military detachments, including cavalrymen from the Queen's Life Guards, will give royal salutes and there will be a guard of honour in Parliament Square. |
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| At the end of May, Roane had under his orders 1,500 partially armed cavalrymen, a few hundred unarmed infantrymen and an artillery battery of 6 field pieces served by 40 men. |
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| In addition to artillerymen, grenadiers and cavalrymen slept two to a bed. |
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| Strongly fortified in a roughly triangular shape, with two cavalrymen and a barracks for around 300 men, construction of La Justice fort began in 1826 to house around twenty open air artillery pieces. |
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| Then the allied advance began, and it continued until nightfall, with Prussian cavalrymen lancing French soldiers in the back as they retreated. Did Wellington outwit Napoleon,as well as winning the battle? |
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| Instead of serving their country as artillerymen and cavalrymen, these former soldiers now discovered that they had been transformed into road labourers and pack animals. |
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| The Spanish cavalrymen echo such feelings. |
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| Their heads were cut off, placed on poles, and carried to Rome by cavalrymen. |
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| The most popular weapons used by Cossack cavalrymen were usually sabres, or shashka, and long spears. |
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| The Lombard cavalrymen, anxious that their French counterparts were poised to take all the spoils, charged round the English left flank towards the baggage. |
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| Cavalrymen familiar with the command and control squadrons of the border regiments during the Cold War will recognize this organization. |
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