Protecting the flanks and poised to charge the enemy's weak points was heavy cavalry, armed with sword and javelin.
National Guard as Troop A, the first cavalry arm of the state, and Troop A was reorganized as Squadron A just before the Armory was completed.
He commanded a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh (April 6 7 , 1862, but soon afterward he returned to the cavalry arm, in which he won a reputation second only to Gen. Jeb Stuart's.
By the next morning, Friday, June 24 , 1898 four companies of infantry, a battery of artillery, and a squadron of cavalry armed with rifles and Gatling guns had reached Sawdust City, also known as Oshkosh, where soldiers took up positions outside the gates of the Paine Lumber Company.
44 Light cavalry armed with javelins.
More than 20 years of warfare had eroded the numbers of suitable cavalry mounts available on the European continent; this resulted in the British heavy cavalry entering the 1815 campaign with the finest horses of any contemporary cavalry arm.
The reform of the French cavalry arm had already begun in September 1803, reorganising the first twelve regiments of heavy cavalry of the French Revolutionary army into regiments of cuirassiers.
The carbine, in various versions corresponding to the different full-sized military arms, was chiefly a cavalry weapon until the 18th century.
Jefferson: But, two centuries from now, could not the tools of warfare progress so far beyond cavalry that arms will be woefully insufficient defense against a tyrant's militia, such that guns would simply be inflicted by the citizenry against itself?
British cavalry were armed with a 1908 pattern sword; lancers were armed with a 9.1 feet lance with a steel head mounted on an ash stave.
