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

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

The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. ^ took hours for them all to cross.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin