Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retirement ceremonies were as spare and simple as the General himself. He made a short farevell speech, attended a reception, held a housewarming at the two-story, white stucco Wainwright house in San Antonio (named "Fiddler's Green," after the mythical heaven to which the souls of all cavalrymen are supposed to go).* Then it was all over. "Skinny" Wainwright was a civilian...
With or without British backing, Nasser Khan's expert cavalrymen (more than 10,000 strong) and their 150,000 fellow tribesmen might easily win concessions from Teheran. Most likely outcome: local autonomy for conservatives in the south, like that given last spring to leftists in the north...
This scheme had obvious defects, the chief of which was that Sitting Bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to Canada. But the Army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm. In the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized 8,567 ponies from baffled, friendly Indians, at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Agencies...
...Armored Divisions. All armored division men wear the same gaudy, triangular patch; only the division number varies. The yellow in the patch stands for the cavalrymen, the scarlet for the artillerymen, the blue for the infantrymen; men of these three branches were originally thrown together to make up the first U.S. Armored Force, in July...
...clamp closed on a dozen districts. Then suddenly the Russians seemed to be everywhere at once on the south. Cavalrymen from Siberia, Cossacks from the Don raced west behind the armored thrusts, galloped into woods to slash out German gunners-and the Germans touched off fuel to set the woods ablaze. Soon shells fell on Tempelhof airdrome. Berlin was three-quarters encircled...