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

Mounted lancers fell in, ahead of and behind the President's car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Escorted by his clattering honor guard of Moorish lancers in a driving rain, El Caudillo took his stance on a lofty tribune.

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

Once a company of lancers appeared, but they turned southward.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli