Foot cavalry was an oxymoron coined by the media to describe the rapid movements of infantry troops serving under Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall"...
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1st Division (redirect from 1st Foot Cavalry Division)
Division (China) 1st Light Cavalry Division (France) 1st Foot Cavalry Division (France) 1st Cavalry Division (German Empire) 1st Cavalry Division (Reichswehr)...
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Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who fight mounted...
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Cavalry Football Club, is a Canadian professional soccer club based in the Calgary metropolitan region of Alberta. The club competes at the top of the...
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(Belgium) 1st Light Cavalry Division (France) 1st Foot Cavalry Division (France) 1st Cavalry Division (German Empire) 1st Cavalry Division (Reichswehr)...
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The 1st Foot Cavalry Division (French: 1re Division de Cavalerie à Pied) was a French Army formation during World War I. 1 January 1918 – 16 February 1919...
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Imperial Guard (Napoleon I) (section Foot regiments)
Tirailleurs Grenadiers Voltigeurs of the Guard Foot Artillery Sapeurs de la Garde The Imperial Guard cavalry constituted a corps in itself and had its own...
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Ancient Macedonian army (redirect from Macedonian cavalry)
companion cavalry (hetairoi) from the foot companions (pezhetairoi), augmented by various allied troops, foreign levied soldiers, and mercenaries. The foot companions...
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command of the army, which now amounted to about 30,000 men with 1,200 light cavalry. On 19 September the forces, under the Duke of York, formed in four columns...
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Infantry (redirect from Foot-soldiers)
on foot. The word derives from Middle French infanterie, from older Italian (also Spanish) infanteria (foot soldiers too inexperienced for cavalry), from...
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the King's personal bodyguard. They are the cavalry element of the guards regiments and, with the five foot guard regiments, constitute the seven guards...
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for moving his troops so rapidly earned them the oxymoronic nickname "foot cavalry". He became the most celebrated soldier in the Confederacy (until he...
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used some form of cavalry for war and, as a result, cavalry tactics have evolved over time. Tactically, the main advantages of cavalry over infantry were...
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Mounted infantry (category Cavalry)
century, cavalry started to become increasingly vulnerable. Many armies started to use troops which could either fight on horseback or on foot as circumstances...
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1st Cavalry Division 1st Foot Cavalry Division 2nd Cavalry Division 2nd Foot Cavalry Division 3rd Cavalry Division 4th Cavalry Division 5th Cavalry Division...
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The Model 1913 Cavalry Sword, commonly referred to as the Patton Saber, was a cavalry sword designed for the U.S. Army by Second Lieutenant (later General)...
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conversion of the Household Cavalry regiments. King George V ordered that the regiment be classified as the Sixth Regiment of Foot Guards, or Machine Gun Guards...
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of Meleager's Foot Companions were the Thracian cavalry under the command of Agathon. Next to them were stationed the allied Greek cavalry under Philip...
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Dragoon (category Cavalry)
dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat...
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Army's London District and is made up of five regiments of foot guards and two Household Cavalry regiments. The division is responsible for performing public...
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The Polish cavalry (Polish: jazda, kawaleria, konnica) can trace its origins back to the days of medieval cavalry knights. Poland is mostly a country of...
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using columns of attack with heavy artillery support and swarms of pursuit cavalry the French army under Napoleon and his marshals was able to outmanoeuvre...
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The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment formed in 1866. Its official nickname is "Garryowen", after the Irish air "Garryowen"...
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United States Cavalry, or U.S. Cavalry, was the designation of the mounted force of the United States Army. The United States Cavalry was formally created...
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British Army order of precedence (section Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps and Infantry orders of precedence)
Household Cavalry Royal Horse Artillery Royal Armoured Corps Royal Regiment of Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Corps of Signals Infantry Foot Guards...
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Sabre (redirect from Cavalry saber)
ancient China foot soldiers and cavalry often used a straight, single edged sword, and in the sixth century CE a longer, slightly curved cavalry variety of...
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by Confederate cavalry under General J.E.B. Stuart, and an unexpected appearance of General Stonewall Jackson's famous "foot cavalry" combined to unnerve...
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battalions sqns = cavalry squadrons Émigré = French Royalists General de Division Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (75,000) Reserve artillery Two foot artillery companies...
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infantry under Confederate General Stonewall Jackson earned the nickname "foot cavalry" by traveling very quickly across the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the consternation...
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expected to fight on foot as well. The term comes from the French Army, representing a cross between light infantry and light cavalry. Dragoons had been...
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