Old troops on horseback

Usage examples of cavalrymen.

A few dogs barked as the invading cavalrymen captured the first Dutch villages unopposed.

A Dragoon sergeant hauled the body aside as more cavalrymen poured across the bridge.

There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track.

Belgian cavalrymen, their horses sweating and exhausted, brought tales of a shattering French victory.

The cavalrymen left them, not out of pity, but because there seemed no one left to kill.

British cavalrymen were taught to cut and slash rather than lunge, but wisdom said that the point always beat the edge.

It was no trouble to kill a running man and so the cavalrymen slaked themselves on killing and wanted even more.

He just turned away and stared through tearful eyes at the western half of the valley that was a mangled ruin of dead infantry, dead cavalrymen and dead horses beneath the skeins of cannon smoke.

He thought about the tongue of flame and about the curious wound-holes in the dead cavalrymen in Erub.

Some cavalrymen fired revolvers over the gory barricade, which was all that remained of their leading ranks, but then another volley flamed and smoked from the advancing rebel ranks, and the surviving horsemen pulled their reins hard around and so turned away.

Nor, on his dreadful horses, could Adam outrun Blythe, and so, for two days, the forty cavalrymen crept slowly southward.

Ahead of the cavalrymen was a gentle valley crossed by snake fences and with a prosperous-looking farm at the southern end.

God made infantrymen, but we cavalrymen will do your scouting for you.

No one saw the cavalrymen move through the half-light, and no one challenged them as they urged their horses up the small embankment that edged the road.

Starbuck guessed most of the riders had long crossed the river, but a dozen cavalrymen were still waiting on the southern bank as he slipped and skidded into a flooded rifle pit.