The word 'cavalry' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a body of armed soldiers on horseback, or as a metaphor for a swift and powerful force that arrives in a time of need. For example: "When the firing squad had the suspect surrounded, the cavalry arrived just in time to rescue him."
One of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) caused the death of Sgt First Class Randy Johnson, 34, of 2nd Stryker cavalry regiment, when it blew a hole in the bottom of the armoured vehicle he was travelling in on 27 September 2007.
Since then, he's donned a fair bit of knightly armour, and found his cavalry racing over the hills.
When the first attack failed that day, Tom was ordered to march his men on foot – despite the fact that they were cavalry soldiers with no experience of fighting on the ground – across a dried salt lake.
That will be the seventh straight quarterly drop, the longest losing stretch since, yes, the Depression.In this section For I'm a jolly good fellow Whistling in the dark Spin and substance The cavalry of commerce Sacred territory A capital affair Stress testing Cycle-proof regulation Marjorie Deane internship ReprintsSo what explains this dichotomy between share prices and fundamentals?
On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.
Michelle Nunn, Mr Perdue's Democratic opponent (pictured), has received some help too: Michelle Obama and both Clintons have travelled to Georgia on her behalf.The race has been both bitter and tight the Real Clear Politics poll average gives Ms Nunn a 0.3 point lead so both parties are lending the candidates their cavalry.
Maria, who bore him seven children, died of tuberculosis before he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1829.In this section Georgian splendour The Bangalore enlightenment Cavalry to the rescue Reflections of a bit-part player Finding nothing ugly ReprintsThat's the bare outline, but Mr Gayford fills it with characters and detail, tracing connections and opening perspectives at every level.
Whatever the precise numbers, the American warning not to expect the "cavalry" to storm to the rescue has merely, it seems, fizzed up both sides.
Troops will march past the ramparts of Delhi's Red Fort, camel-mounted cavalry will charm onlookers, and the air force will fly overhead.
The second is that the defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, an energetic sort with the air of a cavalry officer, relishes smashing taboos, or at least threatening to.
Commanders assumed, wrongly, that forces trained to fight high-intensity battles could also handle low-intensity conflicts.One cavalry officer, Lieut-Colonel Paul Yingling, has denounced the failure of America's generals in Iraq as in Vietnam to prepare the army for counter-insurgency.
