Sentence examples for cavalry about from inspiring English sources

There were now 9,000 cavalry about to attack on a front reduced to 500 yards (450 metres) by the zones of fire around Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte.

Simcoe's troops were moving down the road toward Williamsburg, convoying some cattle with the infantry and jägers in the lead under Major Richard Armstrong, with Simcoe and the cavalry about an hour behind them.

In January 1793, stationed around Gniezno with two units of cavalry, about 200 strong, he briefly engaged the Prussian forces entering Poland in the aftermath of the Second Partition of Poland, and afterward became a known activist advocating the continuation of military struggle against the occupiers.

Overall, there were no pony-sized horses below a croup measurement of 110 cm, and the all-around average height of the horses used by the cavalry was about 120 cm.

In 1982, Michael Morpurgo wrote the novel War Horse, about a cavalry horse in the war.

Battles of Panipat, (1526, 1556, 1761), three military engagements, important in the history of northern India, fought at Panipat, a level plain suitable for cavalry movements, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Delhi.

The Russians broke and many died as they were pursued by the reinvigorated French cavalry for about a quarter of a mile.

Build some cavalry and about 2 or 3 mortars.

Reinforcements of about 4,000 cavalry under Gaius Centenius were intercepted before they arrived and were also destroyed.

In 1302, on Groeninghe Field just outside the town walls, the ill-equipped burghers and weavers of Flanders defeated a powerful cavalry of French knights; about 700 pairs of spurs were collected from the slain knights and hung in a church (since destroyed)—whence the name "Battle of the Golden Spurs".

In 1302, on Groeninghe Field just outside the town walls, the ill-equipped burghers and weavers of Flanders defeated a powerful cavalry of French knights; about 700 pairs of spurs were collected from the slain knights and hung in a church (since destroyed)—whence the name "Battle of the Golden Spurs". In 1382 Charles VI avenged the French defeat by sacking the town.