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101 examples of Cavalry in a sentence

Billy Drago is awesome as the wicked cavalry saber-wielding town Sheriff.
Against the setting of a small provincial town, it shows how its prominent citizens mix up with the officers of the local cavalry regiment.
The movie begins with the declaration of war and the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt to raise a cavalry regiment that will fight in Cuba.
Unlike John Ford's celebrated cavalry Westerns, there's no humor or sentimentality in this film.
It shows the grim situations and less than stellar personnel that cavalry commanders often faced.
In the film's prologue, he works for the cavalry and witnesses the massacre of his people at Wounded Knee.
Rapper NORE plays a decent part as a convict, who looses his head when chased him down off horseback with a cavalry saber!
Director John Sturges would go on to make three more classic Westerns over the next seven years ("Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," "Last Train From Gun Hill" and, of course, "The Magnificent Seven"), and here turns what is basically a "cavalry and Injuns pic" into a thing of real beauty and excitement.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" director John Sturges' first period horse opera, "Escape from Fort Bravo," takes place during American Civil War at a remote cavalry stockade doubling as a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.
The Frank Fenton screenplay based on a story by Philip Rock and actor Michael Pate is rather formulaic stuff right up to its cavalry ex machine ending.
"Trooper Hook" is an engaging title, suggestive of a colorful robust cavalry Western, maybe something along the lines of those majestic John Ford numbers.
In March 1915, two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade moved north up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers towards Kut.
But they miss the point, for they imagine leadership as the equivalent of a nineteenth-century cavalry charge, in which the general is either out front carrying the flag or following along in the rear.
Sir Archibald Wavell, one of Britain’s greatest World War II generals and the penultimate Viceroy of India, wrote in his biography of the WWI Field-Marshal Edmund Allenby, who led the Allies in the Levant: “The greatest exploit in the history of horsed cavalry, and possibly their last success on a large scale, had ended within a short distance of the battlefield of Issus, where Alexander the Great first showed how battles could be won.”
Nietzsche knew what he was talking about: he had volunteered as a cavalry officer during the Franco-Prussian War.
In 1819, a crowd of 60,000 gathered in Manchester to demand reform, but were charged by the cavalry.
The landlord at the time -- we could communicate only in French -- was a Polish cavalry officer who led me into a living room filled with photographs of children confined with him at Auschwitz.
At Anna's side, on a heated bay cavalry horse, stretching out his fat legs and evidently admiring himself, rode Vasenka Veslovsky, wearing the Scotch bonnet with waving ribbons, and Dolly could not repress a merry smile on recognizing him.
The old, for the most part, either wore old-fashioned buttoned-up uniforms of their class and carried swords and hats, or wore the naval, cavalry, or infantry uniforms to which each was individually entitled.
'But I have not served long in the artillery: perhaps they will put me in the infantry or cavalry.''Why into the infantry, when they need artillerymen most of all?' said Katavasov, concluding from the artilleryman's age that he must have risen to a considerable rank.
Behind her, Deneulin, a cousin of M. Grégoire's, appeared without ceremony; with his loud voice, his quick gestures, he had the appearance of an old cavalry officer.
He had arrived on horseback, and his anxiety betrayed itself in his loud speech and abrupt gestures, which made him resemble a retired cavalry officer.
But the departure had not taken place as arranged, for the news had spread that cavalry and police were scouring the plain.
So when the cavalry and police quietly took the road back to Marchiennes, after contenting themselves with deafening the settlements by the stamping of their horses over the hard earth, the miners jeered at this innocent prefect and his soldiers who turned on their heels when things were beginning to get hot.
"A cetacean as powerful as a whole cavalry regiment--now that's a whale of a whale!"
"No," I replied, "another bishop, Pontoppidan of Bergen, also tells of a devilfish so large a whole cavalry regiment could maneuver on it."
Some bunches of ribbons fell from the hands of Birch; his countenance changed instantly, losing its keen expression in intent meaning, as he answered slowly, "It is some time since the rig'lar cavalry were out, and I saw some of De Lancey's men cleaning their arms, as I passed their quarters; it would be no wonder if they took the scent soon, for the Virginia horse are low in the county."
There was also a small body of men, whose ordinary duties were those of guides, but who, in cases of emergency, were embodied and did duty as foot soldiers; these were dismounted, and proceeded, by the order of Dunwoodie, to level the few fences which might interfere with the intended movements of the cavalry.
The rough and unimproved face of the country, the frequency of covers, together with the great distance from their own country, and the facilities afforded them for rapid movements to the different points of the war, by the undisputed command of the ocean, had united to deter the English from employing a heavy force in cavalry, in their early efforts to subdue the revolted colonies.
Most of the cavalry regiments of the continental army were led and officered by gentlemen from the South.
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