Uhlans

The King was greeted with cries of 'à bas le Colonel d'Uhlans', and was hissed as he passed along the streets; only his personal tact and restraint saved the two

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Here we got first touch, though very indirectly, with the enemy, in the shape of a French patrol of _Chasseurs à Cheval_ (in extraordinarily _voyant_ light-blue tunics and shakos), who had come in from somewhere north after having seen some "Uhlans" and hunted them off.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

a Divisional "pow-wow" on general subjects, at 10 A.M. at Bouleurs, we had little to do all day, and did not move till 11.50 P.M. There had been an alarm in the afternoon, by the way, of German cavalry advancing, and I reinforced the Bedfords with another company, and got two howitzers ready to support, but the "Uhlans" did not materialize.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

But this proved all fudge, as is usual with these "last ditch" promises, the garrison decamping immediately at the approach of a few Uhlans.

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The Uhlans were Prussian Cavalry, so you might understand why a university would change their name from that in 1941.

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They ran into a second line of French cavalry reserves Uhlans de Saxe and the Saxon Rutowsky Cheveauleger cavalry.

Battle of Muhlenberg - January 19, 1758 Der Alte Fritz 2008

More Uhlans followed, the hoofs of their magnificent horses ringing like thousands of steel hammers breaking stones in a road; and after them the giant siege-guns rumbling, growling, the mitrailleuses machine guns with drag-chains ringing, the field-pieces with creaking axles, complaining brakes, the grinding of the steel-rimmed wheels against the stones echoing and re-echoing from the house front.

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There was a splendid cavalry battle in front of the Guard deployment, with French cuirassiers and the Guard Lancers driving off the Russian Guard Uhlans and sending them crashing through one of their own batteries.

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Behind them so close upon each other that to cross from one sidewalk to the other was not possible, came the Uhlans cavalry, infantry, and the guns.

Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

They changed their name back in 1941 from the "Uhlans."

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