lancers
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In a stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry instead of infantry, including both heavy, armored lancers and highly mobile mounted bowmen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
For three hours at Kaduna. 3,000 turbaned horsemen, 7,000 warriors in medieval chain mail, archers, lancers, musketeers, musicians, dancers, tumblers and snake charmers paraded by.
From Time Magazine Archive
Modern cavalrymen are more like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre.
From Time Magazine Archive
While inspecting an honor guard of lancers, he suddenly glanced to his left, broke into a broad grin and roared: "Barbara, so you did come."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once a company of lancers appeared, but they turned southward.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
