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- ...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. Th728 bytes (106 words) - 13:09, 30 March 2024
- ...mobility, and are used for scouting, harassment, and raiding; the original cavalry were on horses while modern variants use fast ground vehicles or helicopter235 bytes (33 words) - 01:43, 5 September 2009
- ===Modern cavalry types=== ===Historic cavalry types===635 bytes (81 words) - 02:07, 28 November 2009
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- ===Modern cavalry types=== ===Historic cavalry types===635 bytes (81 words) - 02:07, 28 November 2009
- ...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. Th728 bytes (106 words) - 13:09, 30 March 2024
- ...larly constituted military formation that combines infantry, artillery and cavalry.125 bytes (14 words) - 12:22, 7 December 2008
- ...nclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>(1839-1876) U.S. military officer whose 7th Cavalry troops were massacred by combined Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tr207 bytes (29 words) - 23:00, 27 February 2014
- ...plied to the armored, mechanized, and helicopter-borne successors to horse cavalry.1 KB (174 words) - 16:21, 30 March 2024
- ...mobility, and are used for scouting, harassment, and raiding; the original cavalry were on horses while modern variants use fast ground vehicles or helicopter235 bytes (33 words) - 01:43, 5 September 2009
- ...has been replaced by the [[brigade]]. A number of formations, such as U.S. Cavalry Regiments, are actually brigades.244 bytes (36 words) - 19:50, 15 February 2009
- SS Reiter und Oberyruppführerührer (regional cavalry leader); shot by SS men during the [[Night of the Long Knives]] on order of208 bytes (32 words) - 01:53, 19 January 2011
- ...ar [[Killeen, Texas]]; home location of the [[III Armored Corps]], the 1st Cavalry Division, and training organizations of division size209 bytes (30 words) - 02:20, 5 April 2024
- An Old Bolshevik [[cavalry]] general and favorite of [[Joseph Stalin]] who rose to Marshal's rank, bu214 bytes (34 words) - 19:13, 3 September 2009
- {{rpl|Troop (cavalry)}}88 bytes (10 words) - 09:12, 27 September 2013
- ..., Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired), leader of the 10th United States Cavalry rescue party.348 bytes (46 words) - 21:17, 23 July 2013
- ...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 mi290 bytes (47 words) - 12:23, 26 November 2008
- ...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]]307 bytes (47 words) - 22:26, 31 January 2009
- ...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.1 KB (170 words) - 01:37, 19 February 2010
- ...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 devas1 KB (200 words) - 13:53, 8 July 2023
- ***United States Army#Units|2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment ***3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment2 KB (247 words) - 16:22, 30 March 2024
- {{r|Cavalry}}98 bytes (11 words) - 07:33, 26 February 2024
- *2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment *3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment1 KB (210 words) - 07:37, 18 March 2024
- ...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]]. I2 KB (315 words) - 09:17, 5 April 2024
- 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 comm2 KB (284 words) - 13:00, 4 July 2010
- ...] 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 Cold2 KB (292 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...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 su2 KB (345 words) - 11:43, 26 December 2012
- {{r|Cavalry}}1 KB (143 words) - 10:49, 10 March 2024
- *1st Cavalry Division (Aimobile) *11th Armored Cavalry Regiment5 KB (742 words) - 16:24, 30 March 2024
- {{r|Cavalry}}1 KB (166 words) - 09:16, 5 April 2024
- ...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, betrayed1 KB (181 words) - 09:39, 22 February 2023
- Not all these functions existed in older militaries. The term cavalry goes back to time immemorial, but its basic functions of reconnaissance and1 KB (186 words) - 16:21, 30 March 2024
- * [[Terry's Texas Rangers]], the popular name of the 8th Texas Cavalry1 KB (203 words) - 10:34, 4 March 2023
- ...an [[equestrian]] nature which emphasized [[horsemanship]] of the [[Roman cavalry]]. It was encouraged by [[Julius Caesar]] to help his troops perfect their1 KB (227 words) - 09:34, 22 February 2023
- ...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-dr6 KB (1,031 words) - 14:08, 10 February 2023
- From 1998-2000 he commanded the Second Cavalry Regiment, part of XVIII Airborne Corps, at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He served1 KB (206 words) - 07:30, 18 March 2024
- '''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>{15 KB (2,465 words) - 10:35, 8 September 2020
- ...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===9 KB (1,387 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...[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 do2 KB (253 words) - 10:34, 29 March 2024
- Early in November Colonel Christopher Carson of the First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers was sent by Carleton with several hundred enlisted me2 KB (260 words) - 14:38, 20 March 2024
- ...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 w6 KB (923 words) - 16:22, 30 March 2024
- ...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. They8 KB (1,285 words) - 11:39, 13 July 2015
- *[[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 se4 KB (653 words) - 03:28, 10 March 2024
- ...ational commander in Baghdad, as Deputy Commanding General (Maneuver), 1st Cavalry Division/and Deputy Commanding General (Maneuver), Multi-National Division-2 KB (256 words) - 07:29, 18 March 2024
- ...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 f9 KB (1,487 words) - 17:32, 28 November 2011
- ...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.6 KB (932 words) - 00:29, 11 August 2010
- ...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-2 KB (324 words) - 02:48, 21 February 2010
- Standard maneuver forces are two combined arms battalions and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com2 KB (287 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- **2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment: Vilseck, Germany2 KB (282 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...r armored cavalry "regiments" (approximately the equivalent of a U.S. Army cavalry squadron)5 KB (775 words) - 02:46, 8 April 2024
- ...emakers - "Boxer" Prisoners captured and brought in by 6<sup>th</sup> U.S. Cavalry, Tientsin [Tianjin], China.}}2 KB (367 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- 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 S5 KB (779 words) - 07:28, 18 March 2024
- ...d maneuver forces are three [[Stryker infantry battalion]]s and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com2 KB (310 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...ellow also rode with Colonel [[John Singleton Mosby]] of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry, most notably in the raid at [[Loudoun Heights]] on January 9, 1864.7 KB (963 words) - 17:32, 9 February 2024
- ===Cavalry=== ====2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment====18 KB (2,753 words) - 07:37, 31 March 2024
- ...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 of12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:57, 17 March 2024
- ...Republic 1965; Vietnam 1966-67/68-69 (Vietnamese Airborne Division and 1st Cavalry Division); Iraq, 1991 (24th Mech Division).2 KB (345 words) - 07:05, 21 March 2024
- ...onto either side of the cargo hatch. The modified M113 was now an armored cavalry assault vehicle (ACAV).<ref name=Crist>{{citation3 KB (470 words) - 16:22, 30 March 2024
- Standard maneuver forces are two infantry battalions and one Scout/Cavalry/[[Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Com3 KB (359 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade "Black Jack" Combat Team (2BCT), 1st Cavalry Division.<ref name=B13SB>{{citation6 KB (922 words) - 17:56, 1 April 2024
- ...became apparent when General [[Sir Hubert Gough]], Commander of the Third Cavalry Brigade based at [[Curragh Camp]] (the traditional headquarters for the Bri3 KB (492 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...n 19. He served as a legate in [[Sicily]], then as ''praefectus equitum'' (cavalry commander), before returning to Sicily as its proconsular governor. He was3 KB (479 words) - 14:15, 23 August 2009
- As a colonel, he commanded the artillery of the 1st Cavalry Division, and was designated as promotable to brigadier general and became3 KB (449 words) - 07:37, 18 March 2024
- ...rt mounted warriors, chariots became less valuable, and were replaced by [[cavalry]].3 KB (460 words) - 18:41, 3 March 2024
- ...tary column (including the [[7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment]] commanded by Lieutenant Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]]) wou8 KB (1,218 words) - 01:00, 28 February 2014
- ...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 Col3 KB (456 words) - 12:53, 9 August 2023
- ...soldiers for whom a longer-barreled rifle would be awkward, such as horse cavalry. The definition has expanded, in recent years, to include shorter weapons3 KB (524 words) - 20:26, 4 February 2023
- ...#Marine Expeditionary Unit|Marine Expeditionary Unit]] or (U.S.) [[armored cavalry regiment]].Typical strengths range from 3,000 to 5,000 troops.4 KB (564 words) - 16:57, 17 March 2024
- ...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===13 KB (1,994 words) - 16:23, 30 March 2024
- ...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 regim13 KB (2,120 words) - 01:28, 27 March 2024
- ...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.10 KB (1,759 words) - 19:38, 11 February 2010
- ...d '''Philonoe''' who [[marriage|married]] [[Bellerophon]], the exceptional cavalry rider of [[Pegasus]], which was a winged horse given to Bellerophon by [[At5 KB (804 words) - 12:31, 20 April 2010
- {{r|Fritz Ritter von Krausser}} (1888-1934) cavalry officer, Freikorps Epp, SA-Obergruppenführer, protege of [[Ernst Roehm]],4 KB (564 words) - 21:12, 7 March 2011
- ...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. "I4 KB (655 words) - 10:18, 1 June 2023
- ...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 l25 KB (4,045 words) - 02:18, 7 April 2024
- 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 g10 KB (1,590 words) - 07:27, 18 March 2024
- ...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]],15 KB (2,328 words) - 17:32, 6 March 2024
- ...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 sugg16 KB (2,569 words) - 14:08, 10 February 2023
- ...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 had33 KB (5,352 words) - 01:01, 8 April 2024
- ...Cavalry Division pushed into the northern outskirts of Manila and the 8th Cavalry passed through the northern suburbs and into the city itself.10 KB (1,629 words) - 12:42, 18 April 2024
- 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 as9 KB (1,477 words) - 15:32, 14 September 2010
- ...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''5 KB (806 words) - 14:07, 11 March 2011
- ...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.15 KB (2,655 words) - 23:41, 15 November 2007
- ...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. Un6 KB (936 words) - 09:01, 9 August 2023
- ...apan for wartime operation, ''Oglethorpe'' carried equipment for the [[1st Cavalry Division (United States)]] to Po Hung Dong, Korea, where the troops landed5 KB (733 words) - 10:32, 28 March 2023
- ...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 du6 KB (864 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...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 was6 KB (1,026 words) - 08:44, 12 July 2014
- ...ave stayed mobile, using missile weapons as much as possible. Carthaginian cavalry might have made occasional shock attacks on the Romans, but for the battle7 KB (1,045 words) - 06:22, 8 February 2011
- ...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 t14 KB (2,185 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...ties, ''Mount Olympus'' arrived [[Tokyo Bay]] [[2 September]] with the 1st Cavalry Division on board for [[Yokohama]].7 KB (911 words) - 10:10, 28 February 2024
- ...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 of7 KB (1,166 words) - 14:41, 25 January 2009
- ..., Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Combat Team)|Scout/Cavalry/Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadrons of Brigade Co7 KB (988 words) - 12:29, 22 March 2024
- ...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 sm7 KB (1,094 words) - 05:24, 6 February 2010
- ...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 p33 KB (5,452 words) - 09:17, 5 April 2024
- ...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 fir8 KB (1,149 words) - 15:37, 8 April 2024
- ...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) wh22 KB (3,475 words) - 14:08, 10 February 2023
- ...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 batter34 KB (5,015 words) - 08:09, 20 March 2024
- ...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 com8 KB (1,208 words) - 15:19, 8 April 2023
- Infantry comprised the very first forms of military, before cavalry and artillery were invented. The Macedonian phalanx, the Roman legions, the8 KB (1,284 words) - 02:50, 21 February 2010
- ...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 t8 KB (1,362 words) - 09:37, 6 August 2023
- ...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 She10 KB (1,527 words) - 10:32, 25 August 2009
- ...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}}30 KB (4,616 words) - 03:28, 10 March 2024
- ...] tactics with phalanxes of heavy infantry combined with archers and light cavalry.8 KB (1,165 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
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