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Sentences ending with cavalry

The Five Forks were barricaded by the enemy and carried by Devin's division of cavalry. [7]
While he was thinking of the sadness of it all, a little scene was acted: the side door of the house opened, a weeping woman came out, and with her was a tall Confederate Colonel of cavalry. [9]
Two miles away, several regiments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. [5]
But the horses plunged and strained, and he saw in the near distance a troop of cavalry. [11]
They have nine pieces of artillery, and in position, and cavalry. [7]
Berthier, his chief of staff, dropped behind to question a Russian prisoner captured by the cavalry. [2]
Others consisted solely of Cossack cavalry. [2]
She is daughter of Captain Marsh, Company B, Seventh Cavalry. [5]
Satan said we must put the artillery in place now, and station the halberdiers and display the cavalry. [5]
Tikhon did not like riding, and always went on foot, never lagging behind the cavalry. [2]

Short sentences using cavalry

Infantry and cavalry. [5]
Hawaiian Cavalry. [5]

Sentences containing cavalry two or more times

The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all ordered to turn back to the right. [2]
Weapons: Cavalry broadswords of the largest size, precisely equal in all respects, and such as now used by the cavalry company at Jacksonville. [7]

More example sentences with the word cavalry in them

I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and engage him at an advantage. [7]
I repeat, I would like for Col. Bayles to raise a regiment of cavalry whenever the Union men of Kentucky desire or consent to it. [7]
I think this would develop Lee's real condition and purposes better than the cavalry alone can do. [7]
This last matches with the idea that Lee has retained his cavalry, sending Imboden and perhaps other scraps to join Ewell. [7]
In a little while the queen beheld a body of Moorish cavalry pouring into the vega, the riders managing their fleet and fiery steeds with admirable address. [4]
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. [10]
Among the spectacles which he has shown them is one calculated to give them an idea of his peaceful intentions,-a grand review of cavalry and artillery at the Bois de Boulogne. [4]
He was there when our cavalry cut the roads in that vicinity. [7]
At first they were very favourable; then came the news of the treason, and soon after of the desertion of the cavalry and foot soldiers. [10]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
A thousand fires were burning, and there were no sounds save the murmuring voices of myriads of men, and the stamp of hoofs where the Cavalry and Mounted Infantry horses were picketed. [11]
The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry. [2]
The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. [2]
The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. [2]
In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again. [2]
These three groups traveling together--the cavalry stores, the convoy of prisoners, and Junot's baggage train--still constituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away. [2]
Prince Bagration turned to the old colonel: "Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: infantry, cavalry, and artillery. [2]
It was hard to people this solitude with rushing columns of cavalry, and stir its torpid pulses with the shouts of victors, the shrieks of the wounded, and the flash of banner and steel above the surging billows of war. [5]
On our way to it we passed the drill-shed of the local cavalry, which we mistook for a skating-rink, and thereby excited the contempt of an old lady of whom we inquired. [4]
We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
An edict of Theodosius commands that every temple of the gods shall be closed, and the heavy cavalry have dispersed our force. [10]
Prince Andrew, in the white uniform of a cavalry colonel, wearing stockings and dancing shoes, stood looking animated and bright in the front row of the circle not far from the Rostovs. [2]
The soldier with the swollen cheek looked angrily at the cavalry singers. [2]
The Uhlans started, the streamers on their spears fluttering, and trotted downhill toward the French cavalry which was seen below to the left. [2]
P.S.--I belong to the Seventh Cavalry and Ninth Dragoons, I am an officer, too, and do not have to work on account of not getting any wages. [5]
What object could the Imperial cavalry have in placing themselves by that strong and impenetrable spot? [10]
Either most of the horsemen have served in the cavalry, or horsemanship, that noble art "to witch the world," is in high repute here. [4]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
In the center the French had not got beyond Borodino, and on their left flank Uvarov's cavalry had put the French to flight. [2]
Well, soldiers of the cavalry and the dragoons that are off duty come and get her sentries to let them relieve them and serve in their place. [5]
But there were the breeches and cavalry boots to be thought of, and the ruffled shirt and the powdered wig. [9]
The silhouettes of the approaching squad of cavalry were seen down the street, and the man fled precipitately into an alleyway.... [9]
The sergeant saw that mist fronting Sonnenberg rise up, and show ten thousand splendid cavalry and fifty thousand infantry, with a king and a prince to lead them down upon those malleable but unmoving squares of French infantry. [11]
One was the tall young Captain of Dragoons, in cavalry boots, and the other a young lady with dark brown hair, in a lawn dress. [9]
But Alixe, the sweetest soul France ever gave the world, could not know all I knew; guessing only at heavy carousals, cards, song, and raillery, with far-off hints of feet lighter than fit in cavalry boots dancing among the glasses on the table. [11]
They have to swear allegiance to the Boer government, and distribute cavalry horses to the rebels. [5]
There he was stopped by French cavalry sentinels. [2]
The Seventh Cavalry still in garrison, here; also the Ninth Dragoons, two artillery companies, and some infantry. [5]
The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and artillery horses broke down, and the information received of the movements of the French was never reliable. [2]
But William Connor refused to make a distinction between two squadrons of Bengal Cavalry which had been driven back upon the Guards' square and the Sikhs who fretted on their bits, as it were. [11]
Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting--was not available. [2]
Thomas Connor, a private in the First Veteran New York Cavalry, is now imprisoned at hard labor for desertion. [7]
The carriage was passing some squads of Hungarian cavalry moving at a walk toward Landshut. [10]
Sheridan, with his own cavalry, the Fifth Corps, and part of the Second, is coming in from the west on the enemy's flank. [7]
And as yet only our Constantine's heavy cavalry have come to the assistance of the two legions of the garrison. [10]
Several adjutants galloped off, and an hour later, Lavrushka, the serf Denisov had handed over to Rostov, rode up to Napoleon in an orderly's jacket and on a French cavalry saddle, with a merry, and tipsy face. [2]
The Captain took off his cavalry gauntlet and knocked at the door, more gently than usual. [9]
At the sight of them the King joined in the cheers of thousands of voices on the shore; these giant animals were to him auxiliaries who could put to flight a whole corps of hostile cavalry, and Arsinoe-Philadelphus, the Queen, sympathized with his pleasure. [10]
Frank J. McLean, of Ninth Tennessee Cavalry now, or lately, at Johnson's Island, for Capt. [7]
Besides this show of foot-soldiers--that is, regulars and irregulars of the Cornwallis Regiment, and men of the Defenders and the Peep-o'-Day Boys--there were little groups of cavalry making their way to the parade- ground, the castle, the barracks, or the courts. [11]
That morning, Cossacks of Denisov's party had seized and carried off into the forest two wagons loaded with cavalry saddles, which had stuck in the mud not far from Mikulino where the forest ran close to the road. [2]
First, a body of cavalry, four abreast, to widen the path. [5]
He was looking now at the cavalry regiment that had met the convoy of wounded, now at the cart by which he was standing, in which two wounded men were sitting and one was lying. [2]
We cavalry did not get a chance. [9]
I therefore shall not complain if you do no more for a time than to keep the enemy at bay and out of other mischief by menaces and occasional cavalry raids, if practicable, and to put your own army in good condition again. [7]
Infantry only are needed; our cavalry and artillery are strong enough. [7]
The prisoners were more burdensome to the escort than even the cavalry saddles or Junot's baggage. [2]
That was two months and more ago, and nobody has been on my back since but the Corporal-General Seventh Cavalry and Flag-Lieutenant of the Ninth Dragoons, U.S.A.,--on whom be peace! [5]
A troop of Lombardy cavalry in full armour appeared on the Haidplatz--fresh re-enforcements for the war just commencing. [10]
Whips are cracking like pistol shots, Gentlemen with the yellow cavalry stripe of the United States Army are pushing to and fro among the drivers and the owners, and fingering the frightened animals. [9]
Bartja was to lead the regiment of mounted guards numbering a thousand men, and that division of the cavalry which was entirely clothed in mail. [10]
Of course you know the facts better than I; still two considerations remain: Stuart's cavalry outmarched ours, having certainly done more marked service on the Peninsula and everywhere since. [7]
The divinity-student took it calmly, only whispering that he thought there was a little confusion of images between a galvanic battery and a charge of cavalry. [6]
So now she is Corporal-General of the Seventh Cavalry, and Flag-Lieutenant of the Ninth Dragoons, with the privilege (decreed by the men) of writing U.S.A. after her name! [5]
Several times, at intervals, when Joan's dull captivity grew too heavy to bear, she was allowed to gather a troop of cavalry and make a health-restoring dash against the enemy. [5]
Let it be infantry entirely, as he said yesterday that he had cavalry enough. [7]
The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov. [2]
Once again, as in the church, he saw the field of Naseby, King Charles, Ireton's men, Cromwell and his Ironsides, Prince Rupert and the swarming rush of cavalry, and the end of it all! [11]
Clemens was master in his own house, and Constantine joined the heavy cavalry at Arsinoe. [10]
The cavalry most impresses me; the men are so finely mounted, and they ride royally. [4]
Stopping beside his horse, with his hand on the saddle, the Emperor turned to the cavalry general and said in a loud voice, evidently wishing to be heard by all: "I cannot do it, General. [2]
They were our Horse Guards, advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. [2]
The short-sword at his side showed him to be a tribune or prefect of cavalry, and what gallant deeds must not this brilliant and glittering young warrior have performed to have risen to such high rank while still so young! [10]
He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. [2]
General Sheridan, with his cavalry, the Fifth corps, and Miles's Division of the Second Corps, which was sent to him this morning, is now sweeping down from the west. [7]
The end of her alarms was not yet come, however, for a troop of the young heathen came flying across the square in wild retreat before a division of the heavy cavalry, which had intervened to part the combatants. [10]
All day long he had been watching from the forest that skirted the highroad a large French convoy of cavalry baggage and Russian prisoners separated from the rest of the army, which--as was learned from spies and prisoners--was moving under a strong escort to Smolensk. [2]
He was to have been their heir; but they had mourned his death now two years; for news had reached them that Narses, who had served in the Imperial army as tribune of cavalry, had fallen in battle against the infidels. [10]
His father, who had commanded as hipparch a division of cavalry in the army of Alexander the Great, had sent for the sturdy youth just at that time to come to Egypt, that he might enter the army. [10]
From privates to general they were not expecting a battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the horses and the infantry collecting wood. [2]
There was nothing fresh to be seen from the line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, as well as that the French were outflanking our left. [2]
I am always for the man who wishes to work; and I shall be glad for this man to get suitable employment at Cavalry Depot, or elsewhere. [7]
His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip. [2]
They were still firing, not at the cavalry which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the hollow and were firing at our men. [2]
Then came fighting, fighting, nothing but fighting--endless charges of cavalry, continuous wheelings and advancings and retreatings, and the mad din of drums; afterwards, in a swift quiet, the deep, even thud of the horses' hoofs striking the ground. [11]
The cavalry, on entering a merchant's house that had been abandoned and finding there stabling more than sufficient for their horses, went on, all the same, to the next house which seemed to them better. [2]
In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others rallying some battalions kept up a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. [2]
The French historians, describing the condition of the French army before it left Moscow, affirm that all was in order in the Grand Army, except the cavalry, the artillery, and the transport--there was no forage for the horses or the cattle. [2]
Several thousand cavalry crossed in front of the infantry, who had to wait. [2]
Spirit is what counts, and the Yankees haven't got it, I was made to-day a Captain of Cavalry under Colonel Rives. [9]
It was a country of ridges, depressions, rocks, ditches, moraines of mining-tailings--not even as favorable for cavalry work as Laing's Nek had been in the former disastrous days. [5]
Motionless, he watched corps after corps splash by, artillery, cavalry, and infantry, nor gave any sign that he heard their plaudits. [9]
There is a commotion in the vast crowd yonder, the eagerly watched gates swing wide, and a well-mounted company of cavalry dashes down the turf, in uniforms of light blue and gold. [4]
Colonel Drake, Seventh Cavalry, said some pleasant things; Mrs. Drake was very complimentary; also Captain and Mrs. Marsh, Company B, Seventh Cavalry; also the Chaplain, who is always kind and pleasant to me, because I kicked the lungs out of a trader once. [5]
The troop of cavalry which galloped out to her was followed by the Red Cross wagons. [11]
It was a cavalry seat, and a military manner. [11]
Behind him a cavalry regiment was coming down the hill preceded by its singers. [2]
Besides this, the cavalry officer, once so stalwart, had in his weakness become pathetically like her lost husband, and she knew that Narses had been the first to love her, and that it was only for his brother's sake that he had concealed his passion. [10]
On the 13th, cavalry had dispersed a crowd in the vicinity of the palace, and the same thing was repeated on the two following days. [10]

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