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The answer CAVALRY has 18 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of cavalry in various dictionaries:
noun - troops trained to fight on horseback
noun - a highly mobile army unit
A highly mobile army unit using vehicular transport, such as light armor and helicopters.
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| The U.S. Army still has units called this, though the actual horse-mounted forces were abolished in 1950 |
| Jeb Stuart led this type of force at Brandy Station, the biggest battle of these forces in the war |
| The Garde Republicaine is France's last of these horse-mounted regiments |
| Napoleon divided these troops into light & heavy forces |
| Charge! Composed of lesser nobles who could afford horses, weapons & armor, it first appeared around 1000 B.C. |
| Term for a military force that serves on horseback |
| While there were a few mechanized units, the Cossacks in WWII mainly served in these units |
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| (in the past) soldiers who fought on horseback. |
| A highly mobile army unit using vehicular transport, such as light armor and helicopters. |
| Troops trained to fight on horseback. |
| a highly mobile army unit |
| troops trained to fight on horseback |
| the group of soldiers in an army who fight in tanks, or (especially in the past) on horses |
| an army group which fights from armored vehicles, helicopters ( type of aircraft), or, esp. in the past, while riding horses |
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Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the most mobile of the combat arms. An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations such as cavalryman, horseman, dragoon or trooper. The designation of cavalry was not usually given to any military forces that used other animals, such as camels, mules or elephants. Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title. * Cavalry had the advantage of improved mobility, and a man fighting from horseback also had the advantages of greater height, speed, and inertial mass over an opponent on foot. Another element of horse mounted warfare is the psychological impact a mounted soldier can inflict on an opponent. * The speed, mobility and shock |