In front of the Austrian army were stationed, in and to the south of Marengo, the corps of Victor ( Jacques-Antoine de Chambarlhac de Laubespin and Gaspard Amédée Gardanne's divisions ), supported on the left by François Étienne de Kellermann's cavalry and, further to the northeast, by the corps of Lannes ( François Watrin's division, Mainoni's brigade ) together with two cavalry brigades.

Finally, as the French position was reinforced by François Étienne de Kellermann's cavalry and Jean Lannes's formation was on the way, FML Ferdinand Johann von Morzin's elite grenadier division was sent in to attack Marengo village.

Kellermann's heavy cavalry brigade and the 8th Dragoons took up a covering position on the left, smashing an attempt by GM Giovanni Pilatti's light dragoon brigade which attempted to cross the steep-sided Fontanone at its southern end to envelop Victor's flank.

In the temporary heightening of confusion, Lattermann's formation was charged on its left flank by Kellermann's heavy cavalry ( ca.

" However, in the Bulletin de l ' armée issued the following day, Napoleon sought to counterbalance Kellermann's charge with Jean-Baptiste Bessières's: " The chef de brigade Bessières, in front of the reckless grenadiers of the guard, executed a charge with as much activity as valour and penetrated the line of the enemy cavalry ; this resulted in the entire rout of the army.

The imperial army drew up facing south-westward towards Bouvines, the heavy cavalry on the wings, the infantry in one great mass in the center, supported by the cavalry corps under the emperor himself.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

Then he hastily crossed through the Balkans, taking with him the new cavalry corps ( comitatus ) under the command of Aureolus and defeated the usurper at Mursa or Sirmium.

In Stuart's final year, in addition to achieving the cadet rank of second captain of the corps, he was one of eight cadets designated as honorary " cavalry officers " for his skills in horsemanship.

He commanded a corps of cavalry in the invasion of Carnatic in 1767 at age 16.

After a violent clash, a corps of Otto II's heavy cavalry destroyed the Muslim center and pushed towards al-Qasim's guards, with the Emir killed during the charge.

He organized the cavalry into a separate corps under the command of Brig.

Ludendorff also learned at this point that von Moltke had decided to take three corps and a cavalry division from the Western front and redeploy them to East Prussia.

Thence he dispatched Lieutenant-General John Lambert with a cavalry corps to harass the invaders.

S. A. A., field, horse, howitzer and heavy gun shrapnel, howitzer and heavy gun lyddite shells, cartridges for the four different guns employed and pom-pom cartridges for the cavalry, — in all twelve distinct types of stores would be carried for a complete army corps.

The RAC was created on 4 April 1939, just before World War II started, by combining the cavalry wing ( cavalry units that had mechanised ) with the Royal Tank Corps ( which was thereupon renamed the Royal Tank Regiment within the new corps ).

As the war went on and other regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry units became mechanised, they too joined this corps.

When the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac was reorganized under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1864, Custer took part in the various actions of the cavalry in the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness ( after which he ascended to division command ), the Battle of Yellow Tavern, where J. E. B.

The army too was reorganized and tied to the central government rather than local nobility allowing greater organization, faster mobilization and a far greater cavalry corps.

Saxon cuirassiers and Polish lancers of Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg | Latour-Maubourg's cavalry corps clash with Russian cuirassiers.

The group on the right charged into the flank of the Russian cavalry attacking St Hilaire's division, the other group charged into the Russian infantry in the area where Augereau's corps had made its stand.

Masséna's army was organized into four corps and a cavalry reserve.