What is "cuirassiers"

Usage examples of "cuirassiers".

The Cuirassiers wore steel breastplates, helmets and backplates, and rode the heaviest horses of all the French cavalry.

Dragoons reached the town first, followed by Cuirassiers and Red Lancers.

The Cuirassiers were tumbled down to the crushed rye as the musket volleys settled into their killing rhythm.

Dying horses quivered on the compacted rye, while wounded Cuirassiers struggled to unburden themselves of helmets and armour before limping away.

The Duke had his glass trained on the front line of cavalry that was composed of the heavy Cuirassiers in their steel armour.

Behind the Cuirassiers were the light horsemen with their lances and sabres.

Ten Cuirassiers went down in a maelstrom of blood, steel and dying horses, but there were more Cuirassiers on either flank and a rage of Lancers and Hussars were storming in behind the armoured vanguard.

Some of the naked men ran to the crest to see that a nine-pounder had slammed a cannon-ball into a troop of French Cuirassiers who had been crossing the valley floor.

Worse, the Cuirassiers who had just destroyed the Red Germans now rode west of the high road to escape the cannon-fire and threatened to attack the thin British line.

Ahead of them were the Cuirassiers, and beyond the breast-plated enemy horsemen were the infantry who were neither in column nor in line.

The Cuirassiers, hugely outnumbered, were obliterated in the time it took for a trooper on a galloping horse to hack down once.

A few British riders were down, their horses tripped by the broken Cuirassiers, but most of the charge simply flowed around the fallen horses and wounded Frenchmen.

It had finished the battalion of Cuirassiers, then destroyed the best part of a French corps of infantry.

Behind the Cuirassiers were Lancers, and behind them were even more horsemen.

While on the far side of the valley the Cuirassiers drew their swords.