Sentence examples for mounted brigades from inspiring English sources

At the most critical period of the day's fighting, when the German and Ottoman force of 2,000 dominated the Romani area from Mount Royston, the five mounted brigades (still less the 5th Light Horse Regiment) began their counterattack at 14 00 from the west towards Mount Royston.

Leading the way from the Capitol to the Treasury Department was a horse-drawn float bearing a banner that read, "We demand an amendment to the constitution of the United States enfranchising the women of the country". It would be followed by more floats, nine bands, four mounted brigades, three heralds with trumpets and somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000 women.

At around noon two mounted brigades of the Anzac Mounted Division attacked Gaza from the north and east.

The arrival of the two mounted brigades, made it possible to expand and reorganise the Desert Column into three divisions (with the establishment of the Yeomanry Mounted Division).

The British commander in Egypt, Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell, elected instead to ship the mounted brigades to Anzac Cove intact.

When the rest of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps departed for Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, the mounted brigades remained in Egypt – the Gallipoli Peninsula being unsuited to mounted operations.

But at about 13:00 a force estimated at 5,000 Ottoman soldiers suddenly attacked and almost surrounded the mounted brigade.

He organised the structure of the New Zealand Military Forces into four military districts, with each district to be capable of raising an infantry and a mounted brigade.

However, in March 1916 the ANZAC Mounted Division was formed in Egypt (so named because it contained one mounted brigade from New Zealand – the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade).

The water supply at Salmana was insufficient for a complete mounted brigade, so they had to return to Maler that night.

At midnight on 18 May the Turkish troops opened fire on the regiment until 03 30, then left their trenches and charged the mounted brigade, concentrating on the Auckland Mounted Rifles.