Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northumberland Baptist Association canvassed the hills and valleys of central Pennsylvania by stagecoach, canal boat and horseback, looking for money to start a new school. That fall, with donations given by thrifty churchmen ranging from 25? to $25,000,* the school that was to become Bucknell University held its first classes-22 students meeting with two professors in the Baptist Church basement in quiet Lewisburg...
...Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle on her chestnut gelding Winston...
...bare table under the heavy chandeliers of the ground-floor Salão dos Ministérios. At noon he lunches with his family. When affairs of state permit it, he also dines with his family, then heads for bed promptly at 8. His only recreation is an occasional horseback ride...
Infantry on Horseback. His eleven generals (not necessarily the best), from the Revolution's Nathanael Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
...same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...