Sentence examples for a cavalryman. from inspiring English sources

Dante describes how he fought as a cavalryman against the Ghibellines, a banished Florentine party supporting the imperial cause.

A cavalryman from 1827, Manteuffel became aide-de-camp to Frederick William IV of Prussia during the revolution of 1848.

One typical dessert plate has a transfer print of a cavalryman with a border of military trophies and gilded ribbons.

During the first world war her father, James, was a cavalryman and her mother, Nellie (nee Hodges), a dispatch rider who later raced motorcycles.

At the front are a pair of generals, next come two archers, then a couple of infantrymen followed by a cavalryman and his horse.

A cavalryman and teamster working for Gen. Philip Sheridan were revealed when they fell drunk into a river and attempts were made to revive them.

The reports described the 13-meter tall statue as depicting a Rus' cavalryman trampling a supine Khazar bearing a Star of David and Kolovrat.

The recipient of a pronoia was entitled to all the revenues of his estate and to the taxes payable by his tenants (paroikoi), on condition of equipping himself as a mounted cavalryman with a varying number of troops.

Colonel William W. Averell, a Union cavalryman, gave a detailed description of the scene that morning: Following the battle, the horrors of war were shown in stunning clarity.

Dragoon, in late 16th-century Europe, a mounted soldier who fought as a light cavalryman on attack and as a dismounted infantryman on defense.

Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; £18.99LIKE a mounted cavalryman taking on a tank, Ryszard Kapuscinski charged into Africa waving his Polish sword, carrying less baggage than rival commentators.