Word: cavalrymen
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...Humberto was sent to a Mexico City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...
...expected such folly. There was just time to open fire with the fortress' guns, and to move the infantry to the top of the hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...
...young lady on horseback below is Mary Barber, TIME Inc.'s string correspondent in Athens. On the morning this photograph was taken a few weeks ago she was returning from a twelve-hour night patrol with a complement of Greek Army cavalrymen in the "bandit-infested" countryside south of the town of Komotine, Thrace. The purpose of her night ride was to observe the workings of the officer observer-advisers of the U.S. Army Group in Greece. Cabled...
...American Army observer, descendant of a long line of U.S. Army cavalrymen, trotted back down the line and reined in beside me. 'A white horse in the advance guard,' he muttered. 'Officers smoking cigarettes. Troops chattering. No security patrols out on the flanks. We're a sitting target if anyone cares to ambush...
Three hours later, Major Ehrgott swung up on a borrowed horse and rode out of Komotini with 50 cavalrymen. Ehrgott, as the regulations require, was unarmed. His companions carried rifles, Bren guns and Tommy guns. Amazed inhabitants, unaccustomed to night activity by the garrison, hung out of their windows as the troop jostled...