1) Equites 2) Hippikon 3) Horse force 4) Squadron
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1) French word used in English 2) Horse 3) Horse cavalry 4) Marvel Comic superhero team 5) Military personnel 6) Military phrasing 7) Military word 8) Military term 9) Mounted troops 10) Obsolete occupation 11) Official military term 12) Riders in uniform 13) Rough Riders 14) Soldiers in saddles 15) Soldiery
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- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a highly mobile army unit
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Cavalry (from French cavalerie, cf. cheval `horse`) or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the most mobile of the combat arms. An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations such as cavalryman, horseman or trooper. The designation of cavalry was not usually give.....
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Soldiers who fight on horseback
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• (n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.
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military force mounted on horseback, formerly an important element in the armies of all major powers. When employed as part of a combined military ... [17 related articles]
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Mounted unit of troops, specifically trained in the techniques of mounted warfare and deployed for their greater speed and manoeuvrability than infantry units. The term is still applied in modern...
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Cavalry are soldiers who fight from the back of a horse.
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Soldiers who fight on horseback
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Over the centuries of its existence the Roman army used a variety of cavalry support units. The early legions were supported by 300 horse formed into a unit called the ala, which was originally made up almost entirely of Roman equites. In the latter years of the Republic Caesar, for example, employed thousands of allied cavalry drawn instead from t…...
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Cav'al·ry noun [ French
cavalerie , from Italian
cavalleria . See
Cavalier , and confer
chivalry .]
(Mil.) That part of military force which serves on horseback. »
Heavy cavalry and
light cavalry are so distinguished by the character of their a...
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Cavalry, from the Spanish caballero, a horseman, is the name given to mounted troops who use their horses directly against the enemy, not, as mounted infantry do, merely for mobility. In ancient times, Cyrus, king of Persia, used mounted men with effect in the plains of Mesopotamia; in the Punic wars both Hannibal and the Romans had large bodies of...
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n] - troops trained to fight on horseback 2. [n] - a highly mobile army unit
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cavalry 1. Formerly, the part of an army made up of soldiers trained to fight on horseback. 2. The more mobile part of a modern army, using armored vehicles and helicopters. 3. Combat troops mounted originally on horses but now often in motorized armored vehicles for greater mobility. Sometimes misspelled as calvary which refers not to horses bu...
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noun troops trained to fight on horseback; `500 horse led the attack`
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noun a highly mobile army unit
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Soldiers riding on horses.
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troops trained to fight on horseback
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