Sentence examples for cavalry infantry from inspiring English sources

Apart from predicaments when it had to form squares in order to confront attacking cavalry, infantry now fought in very long, thin formations.

Two chiefs of Bavia, who have arrived here, have given detailed and important news regarding the organization of their planned resistance, their strength in cavalry, infantry, arms, ammunition and provisions and the number of Turkish officers commanding them.

In the face of charging Mughal cavalry, infantry armed with such faster and more accurate weapons could fire three times instead of once, thus destroying the traditional dominance held by heavy cavalry in Indian warfare.

Horses were used by the cavalry, infantry, and for transporting supplies.

This required a night march, not usually undertaken by cavalry, and poorly coordinated manoeuvres of cavalry, infantry and artillery.

The Wallachian army, led by Basarab himself, probably numbered less than 10,000 men and consisted of cavalry, infantry archers, and some locally recruited peasants.

The two armies contained 39 cavalry regiments, 138 infantry battalions (including 20 Gurkha), a joint cavalry-infantry unit the Corps of Guides, three sapper regiments and 12 mountain artillery batteries.

The historian David Nicolle said of the battle that William's army "demonstrated – not without difficulty – the superiority of Norman-French mixed cavalry and infantry tactics over the Germanic-Scandinavian infantry traditions of the Anglo-Saxons".

The Maratha forces comprised 20,000 cavalry, 8,000 infantry, and 20 guns whereas the British had 2,000 cavalry, 1,000 infantry, and eight guns.

Although the numbers on each side were probably about equal, William had both cavalry and infantry, including many archers, while Harold had only foot soldiers and few archers.

Which is funny because metaphorically, I'm cavalry not infantry.