cavalryman

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This proves that, strong enough to hold before the moral impulse of our infantry, they were not strong enough to hold before the stronger impulse of cavalry We ought to be much better cavalrymen than infantrymen, because the essential in a cavalryman is a fearless impetuosity.

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  1. cavalrymen (-men). A soldier trained to fight on horseback; a member of a cavalry regiment. Each cavalryman had been required to start with ten pounds of grain for his horse. The Century, XXVIII. 138.

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  • Sergeant Duril now made it his business to toughen me as befitted a cavalryman, as well as to perfect my execution of the more demanding drill movements. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • The horse had belonged to a Texas cavalryman, and had been abandoned when so lame as to be unfit for service. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Citizen-soldier, by John Beatty.
  • When a mile or two on my way a passing cavalryman, a stranger to me, kindly offered to carry my overcoat, which he did, and left it with the battery The battery had marched about fifteen miles after I had left it, so I had to retrace my four miles, then travel the fifteen, crossing two mountains. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
  • The old man put his ear to the ground to make sure that only one cavalryman was approaching; then he got ready The Uhlan came on at a very quick pace, carrying some dispatches. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
  • I suppose you know the general has ordered me relieved and sent back to my company as no longer worthy to be called a cavalryman. —  A Wounded Name
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