Sentence examples for mounted force from inspiring English sources

From the first big battle ever won by Islamic forces -- the battle of al-Badr, or "the Ditch," in which the prophet Muhammad's forces supposedly staved off a superior, mounted force of nonbelievers by digging a trench -- to the resistance against Soviet invaders in the 1980's, there is nothing new about digging in against an assault.

The ill-armed militia prevailed over the mounted force by making its stand on a patch of ground surrounded by streams and moats, thus frustrating any attempt at a rapid cavalry charge; the marshy terrain also impeded other efforts of the horsemen.

The mounted force followed the Austrians, Germans and Ottomans as far as Salmana, where another rearguard action delayed the mounted force, as the enemy withdrawal continued back to El Arish.

At 05:00 on 23 March the regiment, the first mounted force, began to cross the river.

All the cavalry regiments were grouped together into one powerful mounted force with the mobile guard acting as its core.

Commodore Robert F. Stockton sent a mounted force of fifty under Captain Archibald Gillespie to march north to meet him.

But Porsche abandoned the campaign this year as its debt mounted, forcing it into a reverse takeover by its much larger peer.

The debt mounted, forcing him to sell out to AT&T in 1994.

His debts mounted, forcing him to borrow money from friends.

The mounted forces briefly exchanged fire, and then both sides dismounted and took cover in dry streambeds.

Their need for large mounted forces lead to an establishment of the sipahi, cavalry soldiers who were granted lands in exchange for providing military service in times of war.