13 sentences with 'cavalry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cavalry and other words derived from it.
• « The Phoenicians formed the navy, the Medes the cavalry, the Mesopotamians the infantry, and so on. »
• « The core of the Persian army, its medium cavalry, fought effectively against the Athenians, but once the Athenian wings closed and forced the infantry back, the Persians were defeated. »
• « The core of the Persian army consisted of excellent cavalry from the Iranian plateau and Bactria (modern Afghanistan), but these were always a small minority of the total force. »
• « These new spearmen held the enemy in place and then the cavalry attacked them, a tactic that proved effective against both the "barbarian" tribes and the traditional Greek phalanxes. »
• « The turning point of the battle was when Philip's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander, led the noble cavalry unit in a charge that crushed the Greek forces. »
• « In almost every major battle, Alexander the Great personally led the cavalry, a quality that inspired loyalty and confidence in his men. »
• « The wealthiest class consisted of the equites, so called because they could afford to buy horses and thus form the Roman cavalry; the elite class would go on to be a leading power bloc in Roman history well into the Imperial period. »
• « In a battle in 216 BC, Hannibal's small army defeated a larger Roman force by letting it push into the Carthaginian centre, and then surrounding it with cavalry. »
• « In stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry rather than infantry, including both heavy, armoured spearmen and highly mobile mounted archers. »
• « During the Augustan period, each legion consisted of 5,400 infantry and 120 cavalry, along with hundreds of specialists such as engineers, arrow makers and blacksmiths who enabled the legion to operate independently as they travelled. »
• « Borrowing from Persian practice, Diocletian emphasised the use of heavy cavalry to respond quickly to threats. »
• « Justinian sent a brilliant general, Belisarius, into Vandal-controlled North Africa in 533 with a fairly small force of soldiers and cavalry, and within a year Belisarius soundly defeated the Vandal army and retook North Africa for the empire. »