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  • As a young man, Ted Royce was a member of the Canadian Militia, first in Cavalry and, later, in the Royal Canadian Artillery.

    Securities in Ontario: The Role of the Commission 1970

  • Now, the helicopter from the 1st Cavalry, which is coming over to take over from the 1st Armored Division in perhaps one of the most critical times here, regarding that helicopter, military sources tell us that it appears to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

    CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2004 2004

  • Coke formed his Infantry along the bank of the canal, and sent a mounted officer to recall the Cavalry and Artillery.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Ten days since this uttermost corner of England had stirred to the strange music of men making ready for battle: bugle-calling Cavalry in the new barracks in Eastbourne on the hill; thundering Artillery in the Circular Redoubt at Langney Point; Sea-Fencibles in the martello - towers along Pevensey Levels.

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • The Knights, being mounted men, were called the "Chivalry," the old word for "Cavalry" -- from the Latin "_cavallus_" and the French

    Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • These patrols will derive their best support from a tactical victory obtained over the enemy's Cavalry, which is manoeuvring in their rear.

    Cavalry in Future Wars Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

  • To this was added, in a separate parcel, a little reserve, called the Cavalry Debt, of one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, at the same interest.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • Customers with questions about their accounts can also call Cavalry (866) 434-2996.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • "Cavalry" and "mechanised" brigades followed this pattern, but with the proportion of tanks to mounted horsemen and truck-borne infantry reversed, and often, owing to the shortage of armour, with the tank component left out altogether.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Question from Lieut. - Col. Booker -- Did you see the Fenian reserves advancing after the cry of "Cavalry '"?

    Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 1884

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