What is "cobras"

Usage examples of "cobras".

By early afternoon his Cobras had reached the crest of the escarpment that looked across the vast Deccan plain to where, far in the hazy distance, he could see the brown River Godavery snaking through the dry land.

The Cobras were no longer advancing, for the closer they got to the deadly smoke the greater their casualties and so they had paused fifty yards from the square to let their own muskets do the work.

Horses stumbled and fell, riders sprawled, and still the Cobras went backwards.

The whole line was being redeployed, and Dodd guessed the Cobras would move from the east side of the mud walls to the west, but that was no matter.

He climbed back into his saddle and rode back to his Cobras and ordered them to join Captain Joubert at the ford.

Dodd wheeled his horse and spurred towards the right of the line where his Cobras waited in four ranks.

His Cobras were on the Mahratta right flank and there, for the moment, they were out of the way of the British advance.

The Cobras would now attempt one of the most difficult of all feats of soldiering, a fighting withdrawal.

Dodd reckoned his Cobras should guard the place where the British would attack.

He had already had this argument with Dodd who wanted to take his Cobras down into the foothills and there harass the road-makers.

Bappoo knew Dodd was right, and that the British road could be slowed by a campaign of harassment, but he feared to let the white coated Cobras leave the fortress.

He cursed Bappoo, knowing that his Cobras could destroy that small park and hurl the British into dazed confusion, yet the Prince was content to let the enemy climb the escarpment unopposed.

He shaded his eyes and peered at the complex ramparts above the big gate, trying to spot either Dodd or Hakeswill, but although he could see the white jackets of the Cobras, he could not see a white man on the ramparts.

They were his Cobras, as well trained as any troops in India, and they would be at the heart of the army that Dodd would unleash from this fortress to dominate the lands the British must relinquish when their southern army was broken.

Two more gates to unbar and the way would be open, but the Cobras were thick on the walls and Dodd was screaming at them to shoot into the press of men, attackers and defenders alike, and so throw back the impudent handful of redcoats who had turned his rear.