cavalry
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The sovereign will then travel to the Houses of Parliament by carriage from Buckingham Palace, escorted by mounted cavalry.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
The charge of the maroon cavalry was gathering pace.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
A wannabe cavalry unit, anchored in the center by an agent on a white horse, swept through a soccer field where children were attending day camp just minutes before.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Mr. Gallagher served as an armored cavalry officer in Iraq and is the author of the novel “Daybreak.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
And the stalemate on the Western Front, with entrenched armies dug in and facing each other across no man’s land, made the cavalry almost useless.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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