light-horse

• “When he reached the scene, he found that the disturbance was owing to “3 drunken soldiers of the light-horse, carousing, firing their pistols, and uttering the most unheard-of imprecations.””

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “The reader must then conceive this throne in all the pomp of Oriental greatness, surrounded by the foreign and Roman troops of the empire, and closed on the rear by clouds of light-horse, who shifted their places repeatedly, so as to convey an idea of their multitude, without affording the exact means of estimating it.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides.”

  Les Miserables

• “Major Donald MacDonald, late of His Majesty's army, and even more lately of Governor Tryon's personal light-horse guard, was sitting on the front stoop, my cat in his lap and a jug of beer beside him.”

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

• “Some of the light-horse rode up and began to skirmish.”

  The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

• “The army of the Ancients was much fewer in number; Homer led the horse, and Pindar the light-horse; Euclid was chief engineer; Plato and Aristotle commanded the bowmen; Herodotus and Livy the foot;”

  The Battle of the Books

• “After the way you treated the wizard's road guards and the Certan light-horse squad?”

  The Towers of the Sunset

• “While in command at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, during the administration of President Jefferson, he organized the first light-horse battery formed in the United States service, and he always referred to his”

  A Portrait of Old George Town

• “_ It is a waistcoat, very like the light-horse uniform.”

  The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814

• “With the design of drawing the British into an ambuscade, he stationed his infantry on low ground behind a breast-work, and then rode forward a mile, with his cavalry in the face of a party of light-horse, with whom he came to close quarters, and kept up a sharp skirmish till he was compelled to retreat by the increasing numbers of the enemy.”

  Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

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