hussars

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Mr Lee, a former warrant officer, served in the Army for more than 30 years, including in the 15/19 Royal King's Hussars in the former West Germany.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

Nearly 75 years after the end of World War Two, the UK's last tank regiment in Germany, the Queen's Royal Hussars, returned home.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022

When Gropius enlisted in a Hussars regiment of the German Army, in 1904, at the age of twenty-one, he was still a citizen of the nineteenth century.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Written in 1899 or 1900, when Churchill was a cornet – equivalent to today's second lieutenant – in the 4th Hussars, the 10-verse poem is a tribute to the Empire.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2013

Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson