1) Former Polish lancer 2) Lancer 3) Lancer in a European army 4) Mounted lancer 5) Old polish lancer 6) Polish dancer 7) Polish lancer 8) Prussian cavalryman 9) Prussian lancer 10) Prussian soldier 11) Soldier of 1870 12) Tatar lancer
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Uhlans (in Polish: `Ułan`; `Ulan` in German) were Polish light cavalry armed with lances, sabres and pistols. The title was later used by lancer regiments in the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies. Uhlans typically wore a double-breasted jacket (kurta) with a coloured panel (plastron) at the front, a coloured sash, and a square-topped Pol...
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• (n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers. • (n.) One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.
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(from the article `lance`) ...to peacetime military pageantry. In 1889, despite the indifferent success of lancers in the Franco-German War, Germany converted all of its ...
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A uhlan was originally a certain type of Tartar soldier. Later, the term was adopted by the Poles for a mounted soldier armed with a lance, and later still by the Prussians for light cavalry soldier armed with lance, pistol and sabre. They were employed as skirmishers and scouts. Marshal Saxe had a corps of them in the French Army.
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A cavalryman
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MICV based on the Ascod series [AT]
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one of a group of lancers in a light-cavalry unit, first appearing in Europe in the Polish army. · one of such a group as later developed into heavy cavalry in western European armies, esp. in Germany.
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