At the front are a pair of generals, next come two archers, then a couple of infantrymen followed by a cavalryman and his horse.
Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; £18.99LIKE a mounted cavalryman taking on a tank, Ryszard Kapuscinski charged into Africa waving his Polish sword, carrying less baggage than rival commentators.
As an artillery officer, he proved himself to be both an ardent cavalryman and an experienced technician.
Hayali Bey, the most influential poet of the first half of the 16th century, was the son of a timar sipahî (feudal cavalryman) from Rumeli, in the Balkans.
Dragoon, in late 16th-century Europe, a mounted soldier who fought as a light cavalryman on attack and as a dismounted infantryman on defense.
A cavalryman from 1827, Manteuffel became aide-de-camp to Frederick William IV of Prussia during the revolution of 1848.
"The devils kept firing with grapeshot which mowed us down like grass," wrote one French cavalryman in an account of the pivotal battle that marked the beginning of the end for Napoleon.
Jackson's Major Marquis, a former US cavalryman, is inordinately proud of a letter written to him by President Lincoln.
Around the same time a cavalryman, WK Fraser-Tytler, described life in frontier cantonments as "anything but secure in the days before barbed wire, when the firebrand of the Mahsud tribe, the notorious Mullah Powindah, was sending down his fanatical emissaries from across the border to murder a white man if they could get one, and so secure certain entry into Paradise".
Cavalier, (from Late Latin caballarius, "horseman"), originally a rider or cavalryman; the term had the same derivation as the French chevalier.
Meanwhile, the dashing Confederate cavalryman J.E.B. ("Jeb") Stuart set off on a questionable weeklong ride around the Federal army and was unable to join Lee's main army until the second day at Gettysburg.
