What is "uhlans"

Usage examples of "uhlans".

Branicki was killed, his Uhlans began to ride about the town swearing to avenge their colonel, and to slaughter you.

Then they all turn into windmills: the monks, the knights, nuns, couriers and lansquenets, the Prussian grenadiers and Natzmer uhlans, the Merovingians and Carolingians, and in between, popping like weasels, our midgets.

This officer is one of the few survivors of a regiment of Austrian volunteers, uhlans, two squadrons of which he himself commanded.

The regiment of Haller hussars and two of volunteer uhlans were almost destroyed in that terrible charge.

The volunteer uhlans of the Kaiser regiment had already given up the idea of breaking through the square formed by the battalion, in the centre of which stood Prince Humbert of Savoy, when they were suddenly charged and literally cut to pieces by the Alessandria light cavalry, in spite of the long lances they carried.

When the uhlans got near the colonel, and when they had seen him lying down in agony, they all planted their lances in his body.

Still these are facts, and no one will ever dare to deny them from Verona and Vienna, for they are known as much as it was known and seen that the uhlans and many of the Austrian soldiers were drunk when they began fighting, and that alighting from the trains they were provided with their rations and with rum, and that they fought without their haversacks.

In the afternoon of the day following the departure of the French troops, a number of uhlans, coming no one knew whence, passed rapidly through the town.

V The next morning we unexpectedly fell on an outpost of uhlans four leagues away.

Do you know who killed the two Uhlans who were found this morning near Calvaire?

About an hour later he noticed two more Uhlans who were returning home, side by side.

The moving object suddenly came nearer, and twelve Uhlans were seen approaching at a gallop, one behind the other, having lost their way in the darkness.

The evening before we had cut down a few Uhlans and had lost three men, one of whom was that poor little Raudeville.

Furthermore, there were four cavalrymen, Uhlans, drinking beer and playing cards at the table where Jardine and I had had our wine, and they claimed to have been there for several hours.

He even had the impudence to claim that he and his secretary had been sitting at a table in that room, drinking wine, not fifteen minutes before, when there had been four noncommissioned officers of the Third Uhlans at that table since noon.