Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong Cornell team smeared the Crimson cavalrymen, 24 to 4, last Saturday in one of the most uneven polo matches ever seen at Ithaca...
Mexicans are very clever horsemen, and we saw them last spring in Rome and in the Olympics - the best cavalrymen in the world, perhaps, by now. But "the big secret of Mexican riding" isn't a Mexican secret at all: it is an Italian...
...Humberto was sent to a Mexico City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...
...expected such folly. There was just time to open fire with the fortress' guns, and to move the infantry to the top of the hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...
...American Army observer, descendant of a long line of U.S. Army cavalrymen, trotted back down the line and reined in beside me. 'A white horse in the advance guard,' he muttered. 'Officers smoking cigarettes. Troops chattering. No security patrols out on the flanks. We're a sitting target if anyone cares to ambush...