Sentence examples for mounted charge from inspiring English sources

A mounted charge, with swords or lances, was swift and flexible and had shock value.

In the foreground, warriors prepare to scalp and mutilate fallen soldiers, and in the background, a mounted charge of Indians emerges from the dust of battle to spell Custer's doom.

They easily took the spur, the defenders not waiting for the onslaught of the mounted charge.

Nevertheless, it would prove to be the last time that a full British cavalry division conducted a mounted charge.

Carpenter's troops and others threw back a mounted charge of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, just as the Confederate Chew's Battery unlimbered and opened fire on the Federal cavalrymen.

All would be trained for the mounted charge but would also be armed with rifles, the only major power to do so.

During the stone throwing and mounted charges 123 people were injured including 72 police.

But at Orgreave, the police did not just stand firm against the strikers; they responded with mounted charges into the crowd, and with truncheons.

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Britain's cavalry were trained to fight both on foot and mounted, but most other European cavalry still relied on the shock tactic of mounted charges.

Cavalry tactics altered with fewer mounted charges, more reliance on drilled manoeuvres at the trot, and use of firearms once within range.