Sentence examples for cavalry against from inspiring English sources

Pakistan sends in the cavalry against the Taliban.

We had our backs to the river and were throwing cavalry against tanks.

The fate of Crassus' army had shown that the terrain in northern Mesopotamia favoured Parthian cavalry against Roman infantry.

Poland also tends to view itself as an underdog fighting on the side of right, typified by the mythic charge of Polish cavalry against Nazi tanks in World War II.

In the second half of the 5th century Ambrosius Aurelianus and the shadowy figure of Arthur began to turn the tide by the use of cavalry against the ill-armed Saxon infantry.

Horthy stayed in power until October 1944, when he was finally toppled in a coup backed by the SS.In an apparent response to Mrs Merkel's remarks Mr Orbán said in a radio interview on May 17th: "The Germans have in the past sent the cavalry against Hungary, in the form of tanks, and we ask them not to send them again.

The Labour campaign of that year in many ways resembled a sailing ship competing against an ironclad, a cavalry charge against cannon, romance against reality.

A Pentagon briefer said today that some of the alliance's attacks involve cavalry charges against Taliban tanks.

Then the future Mexican president, Porfirio Díaz, countered with a devastating cavalry charge against backpedaling French troops.

Little does he know, having lost interest halfway through the explanation of how the new boiler works, but my husband is waging cavalry warfare against tanks.

By the time of World War I, a cavalry charge against entrenched troops armed with rapid-firing small arms was suicidal.