Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title. Under executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner, the series freshens the emblematic images of the nuclear age with rare footage and ironic juxtapositions, so that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...
...infamous last stand, Plains Indians and the 7th Cavalry Regiment met again at Little Bighorn. Their purpose: to rebury the bones of 34 of Custer's men discovered during a two-year archaeological survey. Early in the morning, descendants of the Cheyenne held a prayer service; in the afternoon, cavalrymen and Indians, many of them veterans of America's past three wars, carried out a military internment ceremony...
...many." Its best fighters are the Goran, tribesmen from the northern district of Tibetsi, a starkly beautiful area of volcanic massifs, gorges and craters that was known in antiquity as the land where the wind is born. A French officer says that the Goran are still the finest light cavalrymen in the world. But now, he adds, "they are mounted on Toyotas instead of horses...
...Whitehall. Resplendent in blue tunics, white buckskin breeches and silver-colored breastplates, the tips of their unsheathed swords jauntily resting on their right shoulders, the colorful 16-man troop trotted along Hyde Park's South Carriage Drive while admiring tourists lolled in the grass and snapped pictures. The cavalrymen never reached their destination. At 10:43, just as the regiment's scarlet-and-gold standard came alongside a parked blue Morris Marina sedan, a deafening explosion ripped through the detachment, filling the air with 4-and 6-in. nails and blowing the flesh of both men and horses...
...Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past, an appalled cockney rifleman yelled, "Strathcona's Orse! You'll be bloody bully beef if yer don't get art the way!" Flowerdew and half his men were killed. But they took the ridge and saved Amiens-at least for a while...