A soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations such as cavalryman, horseman or trooper.

The Athenian author and soldier Xenophon in particular advocated the creation of a small but well-trained cavalry force ; to that end, he wrote several manuals on horsemanship and cavalry operations.

His parents ( Johann von Wierdt († 1606 ) and Elisabeth Streithoven ) belonged to the numerous class of the lesser nobility, and at an early age he left home to follow the career of a soldier of fortune in the Walloon cavalry of the Spanish service.

However, a mounted reserve was often kept, and the heavy cavalry continued to be an important battlefield arm of European armies until the 19th century, when new and more accurate weapons made the mounted soldier too easy a target, with WWI being the last instance where cavalry played a major role in the war.

Achilles Clark, a soldier with the 20th Tennessee cavalry, wrote to his sister immediately after the battle: " The slaughter was awful.

The Prussian infantry soldier was so well-trained and well-equipped that he could fire 3 shots a minute to an Austrian's 1Prussian cavalry and artillery were comparatively less efficient, but they were still of better quality than average.

As the events of the ancient pentathlon were modeled after the skills of the ideal soldier of that time, Coubertin created the contest to simulate the experience of a 19th century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines: he must ride an unfamiliar horse, fight with pistol and sword, swim, and run.

Casimir Pulaski, or Kazimierz Pułaski in Polish (; full name Kazimierz Michał Wacław Wiktor Pułaski ; March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779 ) was a Polish nobleman of Ślepowron coat-of-arms, soldier and military commander who has been called " the father of American cavalry ".

Statue of cavalry soldier at Bent County Courthouse

Image: Mural of cavalry soldier in Syracuse, KS IMG_5827. JPG | Mural of cavalry soldier ( 1991 ).

Grant ordered a soldier concentration at Jackson under Brigadier General Jeremiah C. Sullivan and sent a cavalry force under Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll.

The brutal battle and its immediate aftermath are depicted from the point of view of an ordinary soldier, a Prussian cavalry sergeant, who is severely wounded by a French sabre in the later part of the confused fighting and whose only chance of saving his life is to desert and find shelter with Polish peasants in the neighborhood.

* Nadezhda Durova, a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman soldier and historian of the fourth century, mentions the: " cataphracti equites ( quos clibanarios dictitant )" – the " cataphract cavalry which they regularly call Clibanarii " ( implying that clibanarii is a foreign term, not used in Classical Latin ).

The institution of Swedish ( and Finnish ) nobility dates back to 1280, when it was stated in the Decree of Alsnö that magnates who could afford to contribute a mounted soldier to the cavalry were to be exempted from tax-at least from ordinary taxes-just as the clergy already had been.

Always a soldier, in 1900 Steele leapt at the offer of Canadian Pacific Railway tycoon Lord Strathcona to be the first commanding officer of Strathcona's privately-raised cavalry unit, Strathcona's Horse.

* Kavallarios – A title borrowed from the Latin caballarius, it originally meant a cavalry soldier.

He also had a distinguished career as a soldier, both cavalry and infantry.

For instance prior to 1914 most officers of British cavalry regiments came from a socially privileged background and the considerable expenses associated with their role generally required private means, even after it became possible for officers of the line infantry regiments to live on their pay.

For private soldiers and noncommissioned officers, this meant the M1892 / 98 Springfield ( Krag ) bolt action rifle in. 30 Army (. 30-40 ) caliber: " They succeeded in getting their cartridges, revolvers ( Colt. 45 ), clothing, shelter-tents, and horse gear ... and in getting the regiment armed with the Krag-Jorgensen carbine used by the regular cavalry.

George Grunert was a United States Army cavalry officer who worked his way up through the ranks from private to retirement as a Lieutenant General.

He was educated in mathematics by a private tutor, and upon completing his formal education his father secured him a largely honorific cavalry commission.

In 1846 Morgan enlisted with his brother Calvin and uncle Alexander in the U. S. Army as a cavalry private during the Mexican-American War.

The rank would fall between soldat de 1ere class ( private 1st class ) and caporal ( corporal ) or brigadier ( cavalry corporal ).

" Excepting this, Seydlitz was generally admired for his modesty and his virtues, both private and military, with a supreme coup d ' œil that allowed him to utilize the cavalry to its full potential.

A young woman, Cresta Lee ( Bergen ), and young U. S. private Honus Gent ( Strauss ) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne.

In its most common application sepoy was the term used in the British Indian Army, and earlier in that of the British East India Company, for an infantry private ( a cavalry trooper was a sowar ).

Enlisting as a cavalry private, O ' Ferrall was immediately offered the position of sergeant.

Initially, he enlisted in the army of the Archduke Albert of Austria as a private, but soon he was given the command of two cavalry companies.

In March 1865 Payne enlisted for one year in the 15th Kansas Cavalry as a private assigned to Company H. The unit had been activated in response to a January state legislative resolution which called for the organization of a regiment of veteran volunteer cavalry to protect western Kansas from Indian activity.

The army numbered over 10, 000 ( 2, 000 infantry but almost no Cossack cavalry ), with many regiments being made up of the private forces of magnates Koreckis, Zasławskis, Kazanowskis, Kalinowskis and Potockis.

However, after Graziani bribed some magnates, units of private troops begun to flee and some mercenary cavalry panicked and also ran.

Their parents had opted instead to send their children to the John S. Mosby Academy ( named after a Confederate cavalry leader ), one of many " segregation academies ", which were private schools opened throughout the state as part of the massive resistance plan.

In August of that year, he enlisted as a private and scout in a Virginia cavalry regiment under General Fitzhugh Lee.

This led to the creation of a society based on heavy cavalry, vassalage, enfeoffment, immunity, private castles, chivalry and militant Catholicism.

Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi and enlisted at fourteen as a private in the Confederate Army cavalry.

The private armed retainers of generals, Praetorian Prefects, officers of lesser rank and the rich, the bucellarii were often a significant portion of a field army's cavalry force.

Tpr ) from the French " troupier " is the equivalent rank to private in a regiment with a cavalry tradition in the British Army and many other Commonwealth armies, including those of Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.

After a family of ranchers and a relief column of cavalry are massacred by an Apache war chief named Sierra Charriba ( Michael Pate ), Dundee seizes the opportunity for glory, raising his own private army of Union troops ( black and white ), Confederate prisoners led by his former friend and rival from their days at West Point, Captain Tyreen ( Richard Harris ), several Indian scouts, and a gang of civilian mercenaries to illegally pursue Charriba into Mexico.

Medieval military doctrine employed them as part of a combined-arms force along with various kinds of foot troops ; however medieval chroniclers tended to pay undue attention to the knights at the expense of the rank and file, which led early students of military history to suppose that this heavy cavalry was the only force that mattered on medieval European battlefields, which was not the case.

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.

Bismarck, who by now held the rank of major in the Landwehr, wore this uniform during the campaign, and was at last promoted to the rank of major-general in the Landwehr cavalry after the war.

Although naturally suited for cavalry, he was assigned to duty as a regimental quartermaster, managing supplies and equipment in the 4th U. S. Infantry, and achieved the rank of brevet second lieutenant.

The Swedish military rank of fänrik ( and the corresponding cavalry rank of kornet ) was originally intended for the holder of the company flag.

William relied on basic tactics with archers in the front rank weakening the enemy with arrows, followed by infantry which would engage in close combat, culminating in a cavalry charge that would break through the English forces.

Jan founded his own banner of cavalry and commanded it in the rank of Rotamaster.

On 6 March he received a rank of a pułkownik and commanded a choragiew of cavalry.

Most prominent and wealthiest among the immigrants was Count Lefebvre Desnouettes, who had been a cavalry officer with the rank of Lieutenant-General, under Napoleon.

However, retired junior cavalry officers whose civilian work involves equestrianism may continue to use their rank.

In the spring of 1792, he received the rank of maréchal de camp in command of the cavalry in the army of the north ; but the influence of the extremists becoming predominant he took indefinite leave of absence, and settled at Auteuil, where, with Condorcet and Cabanis, he devoted himself to scientific studies.

Brigadier also existed as a non-commissioned cavalry rank.

The rank second lieutenant was introduced throughout the British Army in 1871 to replace the rank of ensign ( cornet in the cavalry ), although it had long been used in the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Fusilier and Rifle regiments.

In 1909, aged 48, he was promoted again to the rank of Major-General – due to his extensive cavalry experience, was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry in 1910, with headquarters at Horse Guards, London.

With mounting responsibilities, the amiable element in Allenby ’ s character publicly waned, ensuring that he was disliked by many subordinate officers and the cavalry ’ s rank and file.

In September he was given the local rank of lieutenant-general, and in the same month the division won great glory by its rapid and orderly retirement under severe pressure from the French cavalry at El Bodon.

For his achievements in that war, in which he advanced to a porucznik rank in the light " cossack " cavalry unit under hetman Marcin Kazanowski, he received some land in the Smolensk Voivodeship near Starodub.

That year he also became a regimentarz in his own light cavalry unit, but he still held the rank of a porucznik of hussars.

His valour and his daring cavalry charges later earned him the rank of général in these important campaigns, the battles of which became famous as Bonaparte constantly used speed of maneuver to fend off and eventually defeat individually superior opposing armies closing in on the French forces from several directions.

At the close of the war Seydlitz had an opportunity of successfully handling 15 squadrons in front of the enemy, and this, with other displays of his capacity of leading cavalry in the searching tests of Frederick's reviews, secured his promotion in 1752 to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and in 1753 to the command of the 8th cuirassiers.