Sharpe's battalion, acting as rearguard to the army, are cut down by a squadron of French regular cavalry.

She hit the ground among a confusion of men, mostly officers and advisors, but regular cavalry, too, all swarming in to protect the emperor.

Now a colonel from the regular cavalry rode across the front, west to east, advising the leaders of each contingent: 'We will not charge first.

In late May Saladin assembled the largest army he had ever commanded, around some 30,000 men including about 12,000 regular cavalry.

The regular cavalry was the best unit of the Polish forces.

During the war it was the 7,000 colonial mounted contingent, not the 5,000 regular British cavalry, that led the way in tactical development.

How can I speak highly enough of the regular cavalry with whom it was our good fortune to serve?

It was one of those actions in which the horseman who is trained to fight upon foot did very much better than the regular cavalry.

The battalion contained four companies and in November was changed to regular cavalry.

The regular cavalry of three legions amounts to 900.