Sentence examples for cavalry revolution from inspiring English sources
Assyrians may have pioneered the cavalry revolution.
But the cavalry revolution of the 9th and 8th centuries bc put horses first because of their superior usefulness in war.
In this way cultivated land could support an effective frontier guard against the steppe for the first time since the cavalry revolution had tipped the balance so sharply in favour of steppe dwellers.
In a 1994 essay on military revolutions, "Cavalry to Computer," the historian Andrew F. Krepinevich described the advent of the six-foot yew longbow during the Hundred Years' War in the 1300's and 1400's.
The so-called "Odessa stories," written and published in periodicals somewhat before the stories of "Red Cavalry," also trace disillusion with the Bolshevik revolution.
The photograph, "Caballería," or "Cavalry" (1960), is one of the icons of the revolution.
Others show the battle up close, often in a moment of conspicuous heroism the capturing of a standard, say, or a cavalry charge.This genre dates from the period between the French revolution and the end of the Victorian era, but after that time it suddenly disappears, killed off by new, more scientific ways of writing history and by fundamental changes in how warfare was imagined.
Hanover was little affected by the revolutions of 1848; a few small disturbances were put down by the cavalry without bloodshed.
Those who had been inspired by the recent revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War (1918 20) included Boris Pilnyak (The Naked Year [1922]), Isaak Babel (Red Cavalry [1926]), and Mikhail Sholokhov, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965.
Then the cavalry arrived.
