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• Cavalry
  ...mounted on animals but nowadays, in those militaries that retain the term "cavalry", on ground or air vehicles. Classic heavy cavalry was armored and could devastate unprepared opponents by speed and shock. Th
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• Cavalry/Definition
  ...mobility, and are used for scouting, harassment, and raiding; the original cavalry were on horses while modern variants use fast ground vehicles or helicopter
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• 7th Cavalry Regiment
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• Cavalry/Related Articles
  ===Modern cavalry types=== ===Historic cavalry types===
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• 7th Cavalry Regiment/Definition
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• Cavalry/Related Articles
  ===Modern cavalry types=== ===Historic cavalry types===
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• Cavalry
  ...mounted on animals but nowadays, in those militaries that retain the term "cavalry", on ground or air vehicles. Classic heavy cavalry was armored and could devastate unprepared opponents by speed and shock. Th
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• Division (military)/Definition
  ...larly constituted military formation that combines infantry, artillery and cavalry.
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• George Armstrong Custer/Definition
  ...nclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>(1839-1876) U.S. military officer whose 7th Cavalry troops were massacred by combined Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tr
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• Company (land forces)
  ...plied to the armored, mechanized, and helicopter-borne successors to horse cavalry.
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• Cavalry/Definition
  ...mobility, and are used for scouting, harassment, and raiding; the original cavalry were on horses while modern variants use fast ground vehicles or helicopter
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• Regiment/Definition
  ...has been replaced by the [[brigade]]. A number of formations, such as U.S. Cavalry Regiments, are actually brigades.
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• Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald/Definition
  SS Reiter und Oberyruppführerührer (regional cavalry leader); shot by SS men during the [[Night of the Long Knives]] on order of
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• Fort Hood/Definition
  ...ar [[Killeen, Texas]]; home location of the [[III Armored Corps]], the 1st Cavalry Division, and training organizations of division size
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• Semyon Budenny/Definition
  An Old Bolshevik [[cavalry]] general and favorite of [[Joseph Stalin]] who rose to Marshal's rank, bu
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• Troop (disambiguation)
  {{rpl|Troop (cavalry)}}
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• Battle of Beecher Island/External Links
  ..., Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired), leader of the 10th United States Cavalry rescue party.
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• Christian de Castries/Definition
  ...officer who was the final commander of the base at [[Dien Bien Phu]]. A [[cavalry]] and [[tank (military)|tank]] specialist, it had been conceived that he mi
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• LZ X-ray/Definition
  ...oldiers once...and young''. Both sides took heavy casualties, the U.S. 1/7 Cavalry under [[Harold Moore|Hal Moore]] and 7/66 PAVN under [[Nguyen Huu An]]
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• Battle of the Mookerheyde
  ...nd 800 cavalry, while the Dutch army consisted of 5,500 infantry and 2,600 cavalry. However, most of the mercenaries were not yet paid and were not motivated.
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• Battle of Zama
  ...y arrival of Roman cavalry, who had successfully overcome the Carthaginian cavalry. They were able to attack Carthage's infantry in the rear and inflict devas
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• Gulf War, Coalition order of battle
  ***United States Army#Units|2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment ***3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
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• Chariot/Related Articles
  {{r|Cavalry}}
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• V Corps
  *2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment *3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
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• Operational Maneuver Group
  ...ines, scout and disrupt, but return. This was easier to achieve with horse cavalry than with tank-heavy forces, although it lends itself to [[air assault]]. I
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• Henri Navarre
  An enlisted [[cavalry|cavalryman]] in the [[First World War]], he was commissioned on the battlef ...invasion of Southern France, he joined the regular forces, and commanded a cavalry regiment under [[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]], who would be the French comm
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• Hamilton H. Howze
  ...] operations and created the first division-sized heliborne force, the 1st Cavalry Division (Air Assault),a key unit in the [[Vietnam War]]. ...om [[West Point]] in 1930 and commissioned as a [[Second Lieutenant]] of [[Cavalry]], he served in various combat roles in the [[Second World War]]. As a Cold
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• Pliny the Elder
  ...ith the [[cavalry]] prompted him to write ''On the Use of the Javelin as a Cavalry Weapon''. After leaving the army Pliny moved to [[Rome]], though details su
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• Infantry fighting vehicle/Related Articles
  {{r|Cavalry}}
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• Stanley Larsen
  *1st Cavalry Division (Aimobile) *11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
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• Tank (military)/Related Articles
  {{r|Cavalry}}
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• Euryalus
  ...eeping besiegers in order to get through, but were surprised by a party of cavalry. They were encumbered by the booty they had taken, and Euryalus, betrayed
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• Combat arms
  Not all these functions existed in older militaries. The term cavalry goes back to time immemorial, but its basic functions of reconnaissance and
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• Texas Rangers (disambiguation)
  * [[Terry's Texas Rangers]], the popular name of the 8th Texas Cavalry
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• Lusus Troiae
  ...an [[equestrian]] nature which emphasized [[horsemanship]] of the [[Roman cavalry]]. It was encouraged by [[Julius Caesar]] to help his troops perfect their
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• Gettysburg Campaign
  ...rejoin Lee until the battle was underway. Stuart had taken all Lee's best cavalry, leaving the main army with two third-rate, ill-equipped, poorly led brigad ...Stuart]]'s cavalry to provide timely reconnaissance. "Where on earth is my cavalry?" he kept asking every day. In fact Stuart was miles away sacking a mule-dr
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• Douglas Lute
  From 1998-2000 he commanded the Second Cavalry Regiment, part of XVIII Airborne Corps, at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He served
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• Long Reach Operation
  '''Long Reach operation''' was conducted by the 1st Air Cavalry Division in the Chu Pong/Ia Drang complex, Central Highlands, Viet Nam from ...in charge of the concepts of operation and intelligence and the US 1st Air Cavalry Division was in control of the troops and the logistics.<ref name=VinhLoc>{
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• Tactical Mobility Requirements Board
  ...2 recommended the formation and testing of an air assault division, an air cavalry combat brigade and an air transport brigade; only the first two were implem ===Air Cavalry brigade===
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• Regiment
  ...[U.S. Army]], "regiment" is essentially a historical term. The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is organized as a heavy brigade. While the 75th Ranger Regiment do
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• Adobe Walls, First Battle
  Early in November Colonel Christopher Carson of the First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers was sent by Carleton with several hundred enlisted me
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• Division (military)
  ...arly constituted military formation that combined infantry, artillery, and cavalry, an innovation of Napoleon Bonaparte. Before the invention of the division, ...rge step to face a new but advanced division, the 1st Cavalry Division|1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) under an experienced commander, Harry Kinnard, which w
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• Norman invasion of England/Timelines
  ...off tactic. As the day wore on the English numbers dwindled and the Norman cavalry established themselves on the plateau and broke into the shield wall. They
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• II Field Force Vietnam
  *[[11th Armored Cavalry Regiment]] ...e (Separate), and the IIFFV Command Post,was conducted by the llth Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 2d Battalion, 173d Airborne Brigade (Separate), in that se
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• John F. Campbell
  ...ational commander in Baghdad, as Deputy Commanding General (Maneuver), 1st Cavalry Division/and Deputy Commanding General (Maneuver), Multi-National Division-
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• Alexander the Great
  ...34, Alexander defeated the Persians at the Granicus. Alexander's Companion Cavalry crushed the Persian center, which had been weakened to strengthen their lef ...sundering them. Alexander's cavalry on their left held off Darius's elite cavalry, and when Alexander charges into the center toward Darius, the Great King f
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• George Patton
  ...d the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, receiving his commission in the cavalry in 1909. ...eriors did not; the tank units were disbanded and he was reassigned to the cavalry.
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• Battle of Bannockburn
  ...tween 3 and 4 to 1 in overall forces, and slightly more than that in heavy cavalry. Worse, the stage was set for a pitched battle, in contrast to the hit-and-
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• Heavy Brigade Combat Team
  Standard maneuver forces are two combined arms battalions and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com
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• Seventh United States Army
  **2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment: Vilseck, Germany
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• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam
  ...r armored cavalry "regiments" (approximately the equivalent of a U.S. Army cavalry squadron)
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• Boxer Rebellion
  ...emakers - "Boxer" Prisoners captured and brought in by 6^th U.S. Cavalry, Tientsin [Tianjin], China.}}
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• Doug Macgregor
  He was operations officer of the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of 73 Easting. ...001, he was transferred to a staff assignment, after commanding an armored cavalry squadron. Macgregor's ideas differed significantly from those of GEN Eric S
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• Stryker Brigade Combat Team
  ...d maneuver forces are three [[Stryker infantry battalion]]s and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com
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• Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1840–1913)
  ...ellow also rode with Colonel [[John Singleton Mosby]] of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry, most notably in the raid at [[Loudoun Heights]] on January 9, 1864.
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• United States Army
  ===Cavalry=== ====2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment====
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• Battle of Beecher Island
  ...1868 battle between a combined group of Native Americans and United States Cavalry.]] ..., Sheridan ordered his aide, [[Major]] George Alexander Forsyth of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, a [[American Civil War|Civil War]] veteran, to raise a company of
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• Barry McCaffrey
  ...Republic 1965; Vietnam 1966-67/68-69 (Vietnamese Airborne Division and 1st Cavalry Division); Iraq, 1991 (24th Mech Division).
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• M113 armored personnel carrier
  ...onto either side of the cargo hatch. The modified M113 was now an armored cavalry assault vehicle (ACAV).<ref name=Crist>{{citation
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• Infantry Brigade Combat Team
  Standard maneuver forces are two infantry battalions and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com
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• Joint Network Node
  ...Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade "Black Jack" Combat Team (2BCT), 1st Cavalry Division.<ref name=B13SB>{{citation
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• Ulster Volunteer Force
  ...became apparent when General [[Sir Hubert Gough]], Commander of the Third Cavalry Brigade based at [[Curragh Camp]] (the traditional headquarters for the Bri
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• Aulus Didius Gallus
  ...n 19. He served as a legate in [[Sicily]], then as ''praefectus equitum'' (cavalry commander), before returning to Sicily as its proconsular governor. He was
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• Tommy Franks
  As a colonel, he commanded the artillery of the 1st Cavalry Division, and was designated as promotable to brigadier general and became
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• Chariot
  ...rt mounted warriors, chariots became less valuable, and were replaced by [[cavalry]].
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• Mark Kellogg
  ...tary column (including the [[7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment]] commanded by Lieutenant Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]]) wou
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• William Lyne Wilson
  ...isted in the Confederate Army and served as a private in the 12th Virginia Cavalry. Following the war, Wilson taught school for several years at Columbian Col
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• Rifle
  ...soldiers for whom a longer-barreled rifle would be awkward, such as horse cavalry. The definition has expanded, in recent years, to include shorter weapons
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• Military formation (ground)
  ...#Marine Expeditionary Unit|Marine Expeditionary Unit]] or (U.S.) [[armored cavalry regiment]].Typical strengths range from 3,000 to 5,000 troops.
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• M2 Bradley armored fighting vehicle
  ...infantry fighting vehicle (IFV)''' and the closely related '''M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle (CFV)''' provide the infantry side of the team. While they ===Infantry and Cavalry Vehicles===
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• Battle of Ap Bac
  ...of command expected his keeping casualties in the Civil Guard and armored cavalry to a minimum. ...rmored personnel carriers]], the 4th Mechanized Rifle Squadron, 2d Armored Cavalry, commanded by Captain [[Ly Tong Ba]], was attached to the provisional regim
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• Battle of Coleto Creek
  ...ans movements till nearly 11:00 and Urrea quickly ordered a pursuit by his cavalry and 360 infantry. The Texans two-hour lead was minimized by the overloaded ...which was less than a mile away when the Texans were overtaken by Mexican cavalry.
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• Philonoe
  ...d '''Philonoe''' who [[marriage|married]] [[Bellerophon]], the exceptional cavalry rider of [[Pegasus]], which was a winged horse given to Bellerophon by [[At
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• Night of the Long Knives/Related Articles
  {{r|Fritz Ritter von Krausser}} (1888-1934) cavalry officer, Freikorps Epp, SA-Obergruppenführer, protege of [[Ernst Roehm]],
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• Rudolf Hoess
  ...mind to be a soldier." Running away from home at age sixteen, he joined a cavalry regiment and served, during the First World War, in Iraq and Palestine. "I
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• Knight
  ...n the High Middle Ages|High and Late Middle Ages, knights formed the heavy cavalry units of many medieval armies. In later times, mostly in the United Kingdom ...l'' (''keval''), Italian ''cavallo'', and (borrowed from French) English ''cavalry''. This formed the basis for the word 'knight' among the European Romance l
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• Creighton Abrams
  Graduating from West Point in the class of 1936, he moved from Cavalry to Armor as soon as it was a branch, first serving in staff roles, then com ...taff School. Following command of the United States Army#Units|2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, he graduated from the Army War College. By 1960, he was a major g
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• USS Whiteside (AKA-90)
  ...at [[Luzon]] with units of the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)|1st Cavalry Division]]. ...e 20th when she moved to [[Batangas]] on Luzon to load elements of the 1st Cavalry Division for [[Occupied Japan|occupation duty in Japan]]. On [[24 August]],
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• Robert E. Lee
  ...ademy, after which, as a lieutenant colonel of one of the newly authorized cavalry regiments, he served in Texas until 1860 with the exception of two years, 1 ...ar looming, President [[Abraham Lincoln]] wanted Lee. Lee was a colonel of cavalry, but the overall U.S. commander, Scott, offered a senior rank with the sugg
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• Battle of the Ia Drang
  ...Under I Field Force was the first operational U.S. airmobile unit, the 1st Cavalry Division, commanded by MG Harry Kinnard. <ref name=Hay>{{citation | year = 1999}}</ref> where Moore's unit, the 1/7 Cavalry fought the 7/66 PAVN battalion under Nguyen Huu An. They said that this had
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• Philippines counteroffensive
  ...Cavalry Division pushed into the northern outskirts of Manila and the 8th Cavalry passed through the northern suburbs and into the city itself.
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• Alamo
  In 1803 a Spanish cavalry unit consisting of one hundred men was sent to occupy the former mission. January of 1839 Texas Cavalry under the command of Captain George Howard entered the Alamo and used it as
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• A Talent for Loving
  ...arty of savage Injuns dash out to rescue the whites from a massacre by the cavalry.<ref>"Aztec Curse, Open Skylight", by Gerald Walker, ''The New York Times''
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• William Travis
  ...is sent Austin his resignation as captain but remained as a private in the cavalry. By December Travis joined the Texans in the all-volunteer forces that laid ...Texas came when he was appointed as a lieutenant colonel of the Legion of Cavalry on 24 December and chief recruiting officer for the fledgling Texan army.
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• Washington, D.C.
  ...t these would serve as artillery bases for the defense of the city against cavalry, expected to gallop down the avenues and into the muzzles of the cannon. Un
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• USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100)
  ...apan for wartime operation, ''Oglethorpe'' carried equipment for the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)]] to Po Hung Dong, Korea, where the troops landed
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• George Casey
  ...d Combatant Command]]. In addition, he has been Chief of Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division, Operations Officer and Chief of Staff, [[V Corps]]. He has had du
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• Brittany
  ...n 851 at the battle of Jengland, thanks to the tactics of the Breton light cavalry; and the submission later that year of the Breton king, Érispoë, who was
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• Historical examples of military swarming
  ...ave stayed mobile, using missile weapons as much as possible. Carthaginian cavalry might have made occasional shock attacks on the Romans, but for the battle
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• Boudica
  ...ere routed. His infantry was wiped out: only the commander and some of his cavalry escaped. ...elins, then advanced in a wedge formation. Then the auxiliary infantry and cavalry entered the fray. The British line broke, but their flight was blocked by t
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• USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8)
  ...ties, ''Mount Olympus'' arrived [[Tokyo Bay]] [[2 September]] with the 1st Cavalry Division on board for [[Yokohama]].
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• Cinco de Mayo
  ...ordered to march on Mexico City. On May 4th a force of some 6,000 French cavalry and infantry commanded by General Lorencez made camp outside of the city of
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• Unattended ground sensor
  ..., Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Combat Team)|Scout/Cavalry/Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadrons of Brigade Co
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• Michael Cimino
  ...thy ranch owners to kill a number of alleged cattle rustlers, and the U.S. Cavalry was subsequently called in to rescue the gunmen from an armed militia of sm
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• Tactics
  ...Parthian Army]. Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 2007-06-11</ref> The heavy cavalry fought together with heavy infantry and made the difference in many battles ...frontal assault against a line could be effective when conducted by horse cavalry. However, as the accuracy and range of firearms increased, this procedure p
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• Gian Gentile
  ...o 1995, taught history at West Point, and served as a division planner and cavalry squadron executive officer. He again taught history before going to his fir
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• Battle of Gettysburg
  ...directed infantry brigades forward to replace the lightly armed dismounted cavalry (acting as infantry) holding Seminary Ridge just west of the town. Suddenly ...hree a few miles from the main battlefield. But they were checked by Union cavalry (especially a brigade under General [[George Armstrong Custer]], age 23) wh
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• Restructuring of the United States Army
  ...d infantry companies, and an engineer company. They also have the armored cavalry/RSTA squadron and an artillery battalion with two M109 howitzer battery (mi ...engineer company is part of the headquarters battalion. They also have a cavalry/RSTA squadron in HMMWVs and an artillery battalion with two howitzer batter
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• Frederick C. Roecker, Jr.
  ...ervice. His grandfather was the Regimental Sergeant Major of the 4th U. S. Cavalry. His father was a Newspaper Editor for a regional newspaper and was the com
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• Infantry
  Infantry comprised the very first forms of military, before cavalry and artillery were invented. The Macedonian phalanx, the Roman legions, the
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• Rufus C. Somerby
  ...this regiment. Another man of the same name later served in the 8th U.S. Cavalry during the Indian wars; if this is the same as the Kentucky soldier, then t
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• White German Shepherd Dog
  ...and Picture") written by the recognized father of the breed, Rittmeister (Cavalry Captain) Max von Stephanitz, in 1921 included a photo of a White German She
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• Vietnam War ground technology
  ...perations with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and the deployment of the [[1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)]]. Apropos of the 1st Cav, separate articles already e {{Image|Viet-huey.jpg|left|350px|UH–1 Hueys pick up soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division during operations on the Bong Son Plain in 1966}}
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• The Father of Us All
  ...] tactics with phalanxes of heavy infantry combined with archers and light cavalry.
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• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  | CG, 1st Cavalry Division (air assault)
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• CH-47 Chinook
  ...er. In June 1965 the 11th Air Assault Division was redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and readied for deployment to Viet Nam. Chinooks from
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• Ray Odierno
  ...th Field Artillery, 7th Infantry Division, and the Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division.
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• USS Titania (AKA-13)
  ...mbark marines and troops of the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)|1st Cavalry Division]] for the assault on [[Pohang]]. Underway on [[16 July]], the dark
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• Dunstanburgh Castle
  ...der warfare. Edward II installed a garrison of 40 men-at-arms and 40 light cavalry. Because Lancaster had died as a rebel his family had not inherited his est
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• Iraq War, Surge
  ...soon evolved to add Multi-National Division-Baghdad, built around the 1st Cavalry Division, commanded by MG Joseph Fil. Fil would focus on the "big-picture" ...DoD News Briefing: Army Commander, Multinational Division Baghdad and 1st Cavalry Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil
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• Vicksburg Campaign
  ...d also leave enough for their civilians to survive. In December, one rebel cavalry raid cut the railroad from Columbus and another captured Grant's main suppl When Grant sent 1,700 cavalry under Colonel Grierson on a hugely successful 600-mile raid through the len
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• Great Siege of Scarborough Castle/Citable Version
  ...ughout the region, targeting Parliamentary positions. In May, Cholmley's [[cavalry]] moved north of [[Whitby]], 20 miles away, and pillaged the estate of the
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• Oliver Cromwell
  ...silver plate to the king, who was short of money. He raised a troop of 60 cavalry and searched for suspected royalists. ...the largest regional armies in England. Cromwell fought together with his cavalry at the drawn battle of Edgehill (October 23, 1642). Afterwards, he doubled
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• Ancient Athens
  ...d a land expedition under [[King Cleomenes I]]. He defeated the Thessalian cavalry and besieged the tyrants on the Acropolis until they admitted defeat and ag
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• USS Tolland (AKA-64)
  ...[Zamboanga]] on [[2 September]], where she embarked units of the Army 41st Cavalry Division for transportation to [[Kure]], [[Japan]], for duty with the Allie
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• Vietnamization
  ...nal responsibility. Also in the new area for the ARVN 5th had been the 1st Cavalry Divsion (Airmobile), far better equipped with helicopters than a standard U In this campaign, beginning May 1, U.S. Task Force Shoemaker, of the 1st Cavalry Division operated in the Fishhook area of Cambodia, preceded by B-52 strik
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• Napoleon
  ...d the overall battle plans, and directed the combined attacks of infantry, cavalry reserves, and massed batteries of guns. Since he was simultaneously head of ...clining quality of the French infantry and, later, France's inferiority in cavalry numbers. </ref>
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• Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/March 4, 2009/Uncategorized
  *[[3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment/Definition]]
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• Moqtada al-Sadr
  ...assistants, and al-Sadr responded with a call for arms. By the 4th, a 1st Cavalry Division platoon was ambushed, unaware that the arrest had taken place or t
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• Great Siege of Scarborough Castle
  ...ughout the region, targeting Parliamentary positions. In May, Cholmley's [[cavalry]] moved north of [[Whitby]], 20 miles away, and pillaged the estate of the
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• Battle of Khe Sanh
  ...al control of the Khe Sanh area was handed over to the U.S. Army's 1st Air Cavalry Division for the duration of Operation ''Pegasus''.<ref name = "Schulimson ...when Westmoreland ordered General John J. Tolson, commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division, to prepare a contingency plan. Route 9, the only practical overla
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• USS Yancey (AKA-93)
  ...mmenced loading elements of the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)|1st Cavalry Division]] for the [[Occupied Japan|occupation of Japan]].
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• Edinburgh Free Thinkers' Zetetic Society
  ...at [[Peterloo]] in August 1819, when, on the orders of local magistrates, cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at a meeting in Manchester
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• Ulysses S. Grant
  ...t in a class of thirty-nine, he was sent to the infantry instead of to the cavalry, his choice. He served at various posts in Missouri and Louisiana, but in 1
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• South Vietnam's ground war, 1972-1975
  ...Dinh, had four infantry regiments covering the area, and a reserve Armored Cavalry Squadron in Bong Son and two regiments of Rangers, one east of Tam Quan, a ...t division, reinforced with another infantry regiment, and the 9th Armored Cavalry Regiment, broke through on Highway 13.
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• USS Seminole (AKA-104)
  ...ole'' departed Japan as a part of Task Group 90.9 which redeployed the 5th Cavalry Regimental Combat Team from Pusan and [[Koje Do]], Korea, to [[Otaru, Japan
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• Iraq War, major combat phase
  The first Army unit to enter Iraq was the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, part of the 3rd Infantry division, at approximately 1 AM local ti ...he defenders. Deceptive feints were the first actions, such as that of 3-7 Cavalry on March 30.<ref name=BatStor>{{citation
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• General Offensive-General Uprising
  ..., first the [[United States Marine Corps]] at [[Danang]], and then the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), the "First Cav". In particular, the PAVN were not sur
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• Otto von Bismarck
  ...1871; at retirement he was named duke of Lauenburg and colonel general of cavalry but he cared little for titles and honors; more useful was the vast landed
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• Vietnamese Communist grand strategy
  ..., first the [[United States Marine Corps]] at [[Danang]], and then the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), the "First Cav". In particular, the PAVN were not sur | title = After Action Report, IA DRANG Valley Operation 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry
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• Home Guard
  A number of hunts formed cavalry troops, even being trained to fire from horseback. Part of the Exmoor mount
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• Ancient Celtic music/Citable Version
  ...dded to the Roman oeuvre of army songs: When 2000 soldiers from the Gallic cavalry defected to [[Augustus|Octavian]] before the [[Battle of Actium|battle of A ...dants played a prominent role in the Roman army, especially as the elite [[cavalry]].</ref>
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• Armenian Genocide
  ...result of an uprising that was put down with ferocity by Kurdish irregular cavalry (Hamidieh regiments). The massacres soon spread, and in October and Novembe
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• Nathanael Greene/Citable Version
  ...y moving constantly, frequently using [[Henry Lee|Lighthorse Harry Lee]]'s cavalry to engage in skirmishes. On March 14, he chose his battlefield - the town o
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• Nathanael Greene
  ...y moving constantly, frequently using [[Henry Lee|Lighthorse Harry Lee]]'s cavalry to engage in skirmishes. On March 14, he chose his battlefield - the town o
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• Ancient Celtic music
  ...dded to the Roman oeuvre of army songs: When 2000 soldiers from the Gallic cavalry defected to [[Augustus|Octavian]] before the [[Battle of Actium]], they did ...dants played a prominent role in the Roman army, especially in the elite [[cavalry]] and as imperial bodyguards of the [[Julio-Claudian dynasty]], e.g. of Jul
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• Pennsylvania, history
  ...the target of several raids by the [[Confederate States Army]], including cavalry raids in 1862 and 1863 by [[J.E.B. Stuart]], in 1863 by [[John Imboden]], a
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• Félix d'Hérelle
  ...by Dr. Roux to investigate an epidemic of dysentery which was raging in a cavalry squadron, then resting at Maisons-Laffitte. I thought the hypothesis, put f
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• Félix d'Hérelle/Citable Version
  ...by Dr. Roux to investigate an epidemic of dysentery which was raging in a cavalry squadron, then resting at Maisons-Laffitte. I thought the hypothesis, put f
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• Scalawag
  ...E. Brown]], the wartime governor of Georgia, and General John Mosby, famed cavalry leader.
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• César Cui
  ...se of the Nikolaevsky Engineering, Mikhailovsky Artillery, and Nikolaevsky Cavalry Schools'''''], 1877.)
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• American Expeditionary Force (World War I)
  ...s of the AEF commander, General Pershing. As a temporary major in the 10th Cavalry in 1898 he won fame leading black troops up San Juan Hill--and gained the n ...ts to hit "strategic" targets far behind the tactical lines, rather like a cavalry raid. Mitchell further stressed what became the cardinal doctrine of air po
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• American Revolution, military history
  ...with perhaps an artillery regiment assigned to department headquarters. [[Cavalry]] units (which fought on horseback) were rarely used. Dragoons were infantr ...had worldwide only 49,000 men: 39,000 infantry, 2,500 artillery, and 6,900 cavalry. The average soldier, aged 30, had been nine years in the ranks, but that d
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• World War Two in the Pacific
  ...Cavalry Division pushed into the northern outskirts of Manila and the 8th Cavalry passed through the northern suburbs and into the city itself.
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• Mission San Diego de Alcalá
  ...inuing through late 1858 or early 1859, various companies of artillery and cavalry were housed at the Mission complex. During the occupation the soldiers effe
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• Shang Dynasty
  ...d, although this was slowly phased out by massive infantry, and then large cavalry-based forces by the 3rd century BC.<ref name="sawyer 36">Sawyer, 36.</ref>
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• German Shepherd Dog
  As a young cavalry officer, Stephanitz’s military duties often required him to travel across
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• Mexican-American War
  ...ued on to [[California, history since 1846|California]] at the head of his cavalry, and fought a small engagement at San Pascual on December 6, 1846, before r
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• Signals intelligence collection, ground-based
  ...as that PROPHET would be issued six systems per division, four per armored cavalry regiment (ACR), three per Brigade Combat Team (IBCT). Tasking for Prophet w
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• Future Combat Systems
  ...some extent an improvement on the M2 Bradley (armored fighting vehicle)|M3 cavalry fighting vehicle, or the M1114 HMWWV scout vehicle or M1127 reconnaissanc
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• Horse
  ...s wished to infuse some of this energy and athleticism into their own best cavalry horses. These traits, combined with the lighter, aesthetically refined bon
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• First Crusade
  ...dered his knights in front to protect them. In phase two the Franco-Norman cavalry was driven back on the camp, rallied by its leaders, and formed the outer s ...been strengthened the previous year, and its garrison included around 400 cavalry, capable of moving quickly in the city in the chance of a breach. Many of t
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• Chess
  ...infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariots. Moreover only India had in its cavalry all three animals — horse, camel and elephant — represented by the knig
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• U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin
  ...r armored cavalry "regiments" (approximately the equivalent of a U.S. Army cavalry squadron)
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• American Civil War/Bibliography
  * Starr, Stephen Z. ''The Union Cavalry in the Civil War'' 3 vol (1979, 1981), ...r's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July 1863'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Cavalry-Gettysburg-Tactical-Operations-Campaign/dp/0803279418/ref=sr_1_47/103-48278
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• Korean War of 1592-1598
  ...00,000 veteran troops. The army consisted mainly of infantry and partly of cavalry, and the infantry further divided into archers, spearmen, and gunners. The
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• Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968
  ...the area, first the United States Marine Corps at Danang, and then the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), the "First Cav". In particular, the PAVN were not sur
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• Texas, history
  ...guard against Union invasions and Indian raids. "Terry's Texas Rangers" (a cavalry unit commanded by Benjamin F. Terry) and John Sibley's brigade, which campa
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• The Lord of the Rings
  ...he Pelennor Fields|siege of Minas Tirith]]. With the timely aid of Rohan's cavalry and Aragorn's assault up the river, a significant portion of Sauron's army
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• Conduct of the War (7–9 May 1940)
  ...daring of the Cavaliers, by [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine|Prince Rupert]]'s Cavalry, [[Oliver Cromwell]] spoke to [[John Hampden]]. In one of his speeches he r
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• World War I
  Horse cavalry had long provided mobility on the battlefield; it could not be used on the
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• Vietnam War
  ...bilities of units with integrated helicopter support were shown by the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) at the [[Battle of the Ia Drang]] and the [[Battle of
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• Osama bin Laden
  ...also provided many recruits for the British military, mainly in irregular cavalry units.
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• Theodore Roosevelt
  ...rd Wood]], organized the Rough Riders (formally, the "First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment") out of a diverse crew that ranged from cowboys from the Dakotas
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• French words in English/Catalogs
  |'''chasseur'''—a hunter, huntsman; one of a body of light cavalry or infantry trained for rapid maneuvering; a liveried attendant, a footman'
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• Winston Churchill
  ...ef><ref>Haffner 2003, p. 15.</ref> He was accepted as a [[cadet]] in the [[cavalry]], starting in September 1893.<ref>Gilbert 1991, p. 37.</ref><ref>Jenkins 2
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