Between Lutzingen and Oberglauheim the Elector placed 27 squadrons of cavalry – Count d ' Arco commanded 14 Bavarian squadrons and Count Wolframsdorf had 13 more in support nearby.

Piotr Dunin decided not to wait for the enemy and attacked first, setting infantry with crossbows at left, defended by cavalry between the tabor and the coast of the nearby lake of Rogoźnica.

The French cavalry, commanded by General Marguerite, launched three desperate attacks on the nearby village of Floing where the Prussian XI Corps was concentrated.

Sir Richard Lundie, a Scots knight who joined the English after the capitulation at Irvine, offered to outflank the enemy by leading a cavalry force over a nearby ford, where sixty horsemen could cross at the same time.

Resting at Bury nearby, Rupert was joined by the Marquess of Newcastle's cavalry under Lord George Goring, which had broken out of York early in the siege, with a small contingent from Derbyshire, and several regiments which were being freshly raised in Lancashire by the Earl of Derby.

Soon after the attack the cavalry received machine gun fire from German armoured personnel carriers stationed nearby and was forced to retreat.

During the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate cavalry badly defeated Union forces at the nearby Battle of Brown's Mill.

On July 10, 1864, a 135-man Confederate cavalry detachment attacked the Northern Central Railway in nearby Cockeysville, under orders from Gen. Bradley T. Johnson.

A nearby stone barn and barnyard wall proved a superb defensive position for the 34th Virginia Battalion ’ s dismounted cavalry.

By then the cavalry harassed Dijéon Lapeña, whose forces were covering the city of Cascante from the top of the Basilica of Romero to the Convento de la Victoria, both places where it placed its artillery ( 18 pieces ), while their riders were made by the nearby orchards.

The radicals ' army quickly collapsed and the commander of the Orphans ' cavalry, Čapek of Sány, fled with all his men to the nearby town of Kolín.

Armed with pipes, an invading army from nearby Crotonia assailed the Sybarite cavalry with music.

Tao Qian asked Liu Bei to station his army in nearby Xiaopei ( present day Pei County, Jiangsu ) and gave him 4, 000 more troops, in addition to 1, 000 or so troops and some Wuhuan cavalry already under his command.

While Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott besieged Vera Cruz, Buckner's unit engaged a few thousand Mexican cavalry at a nearby town called Amazoque.

The French cavalry, commanded by General Jean Auguste Margueritte, launched three desperate attacks on the nearby village of Floing where the Prussian XI Corps was concentrated.

The Xianbei tribe leader Kebineng had led a ten-thousand strong cavalry force nearby to observe the ongoing war between Han and Wuhuan.

Colonial cavalry, the NMP and the carabiniers, who could easily have fled as they had horses, died around Durnford in his last stand while nearby their horses were found dead on their picket rope.

A small squadron of cavalry, sent by José de la Guerra y Noriega from the Santa Barbara Presidio, waited quietly nearby for an opportunity to capture some stragglers.

Jack suddenly hears the faint chords of the traditional cavalry tune " Garryowen " echoing through a valley and spots Custer and his troops marching nearby.

There some cavalry rode up, informing him that about 80 of the enemy had taken refuge in a nearby temple.

For example in the Hellenica Xenophon writes ' When Dercylidas learned this ( that a Persian army was nearby ), he ordered his officers to form their men in line, eight ranks deep ( the hoplite phalanx ), as quickly as possible, and to station the peltasts on either wing along with the cavalry.

Brunswick turned then against the Spanish infantry, but his own infantry failed to adequately support the attack, the Tercio of Naples held its ground, and murderous enfilade fire from musketeers ambushed in the nearby woods sent the Protestant cavalry reeling back in disorder.

At noon Rudolph ordered a fresh heavy cavalry regiment he had concealed behind nearby hills and woods to attack the right flank of Ottokar's troops.

Believing the Sioux and Cheyennes ' fighting tenacity was based on defense of families in a nearby village, Crook ordered Mills and Noyes to withdraw their cavalry from the high ground and follow the Rosebud north to find the suspected village.

All his men dismounted and were organized into units, with longbowmen placed in a V-formation on both flanks and a small cavalry unit, commanded by Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch, hidden in woods at the rear.

Charles's decision to wait in the end proved crucial, as it forced the Umayyads to rush uphill and through woods, negating to a large degree the lethality of a cavalry charge.

Perhaps the best cavalry in the Habsburg army, the Vincent Chevaulegers and the Stipsic Hussars, occupied the Bettelberg ridgeline between Eckmühl and the woods above Unterlaiching.

A third mass of troops — the Spanish and Imperial heavy cavalry under Lannoy himself, as well as d ' Avalos ' Spanish infantry — had meanwhile been moving through the woods to the west, closer to where Francis was encamped.

D ' Avalos, left in command of the Spanish forces after Lannoy had followed the retreating cavalry, formed his men up at the edge of the woods and sent messengers to Bourbon, Frundsberg, and De Vasto requesting assistance.

Caesar describes the enemy cavalry as sallying repeatedly from the woods at the top of the hill and says his cavalry did not dare follow them in when they retreated.

Their cavalry became very active during this period, frequently moving through the woods and getting behind German lines where they laid mines and ambushed supply columns.

The two V Corps divisions of Generals Girard and Gazan, preceded by a cavalry brigade, swung left to begin the Marshal's flanking move — their progress was concealed by intervening olive woods, and the first the Allies knew of them was when four French cavalry regiments burst from the southern end of the woods, crossed two brooks, and scattered Loy's Spanish cavalry on the right of Beresford's lines.

As McPherson's two Corps left the woods, they skirmished with Confederate cavalry for a while until the cavalry was able to withdraw to a line of fortifications on the outer edge of the city, where they were reinforced by the 37th Mississippi, a regiment in James Cantey's brigade.

Córdoba, much weaker in cavalry, had assumed a blocking position north of the town of Mellet, near Fleurus, with flanks supported by woods.

Pyrrhus sent Athamanian, Acharnian and Samnite infantry to drive the Romans out of the woods, but those forces were intercepted by Roman cavalry.

A Canadian officer ( militia cavalry leader William Hamilton Merritt ) noted that " Tecumseh extended his men, and marched them three times through an opening in the woods at the rear of the fort in full view of the garrison, which induced them to believe there were at least two or three thousand Indians.

Early initially concealed his infantry in a woods, sending out his cavalry and skirmish line of sharpshooters to draw the Federals into battle, thus playing into Crook's misconception that he the Confederate infantry had left the Valley.

They hid their cavalry in the woods and stationed their infantry on the reverse slope of the bank.

Driving the Angrivarii from the bank, they went on to pursue the cavalry in the woods.

When they left a couple of days later, they had ransacked the statehouse ; vandalized the State Chapel by pouring honey down the pipes of the organ and by housing cavalry horses in the church ; then destroyed the state arsenal and powder magazine ; burned the penitentiary, the central depot, and the Oconee bridge ; and devastated the surrounding countryside.

His now leaderless army, which only Froissart's account, heavily influenced by the conventions of Romance, claimed was 20, 000 strong, was ridden down by divisions of knights ' cavalry in the ensuing Battle of Mello, which was followed by a campaign of terror throughout the Beauvais region, where soldiers roamed door to door in the countryside lynching countless peasants.

He had demoralised the Royalist cavalry, and, above all, had carried off every horse on the countryside.

Spartan patrols through the Attic countryside strained the Athenian cavalry and curtailed the ability of Athens to continue exploiting the Laurium silver mines in southeastern Attica that were an important source of income.

The Nien fortified their captured cities and used them as bases to launch cavalry attacks against Qing troops in the countryside, prompting local towns to fortify themselves against Nien raiding parties.

Senggelinquin's infantry-based army could not stop the fast moving cavalry from devastating the countryside and launching surprise attacks on Imperial troops.

The English cavalry rode through the surrounding countryside destroying livestock and crops, while both sides called for allegiance from the population.

Specific tactics were " a quick cavalry raid through the countryside with the intention of pillaging unfortified villages and towns, destroying crops and houses, stealing livestock, and generally disrupting and terrorizing rural society.

Stuck there for a few days, he bargained for horses with which to explore the countryside, and was arrested by the NKVD cavalry near to the Persian border.

As night fell the Confederate cavalry swept the countryside looking for Federals who had become lost from their units in retreat.

Dunbine is set in Byston Well, a parallel world that resembles the countryside of medieval Europe with kingdoms ruled by monarchs in castles, armies of unicorn-riding cavalry armed with swords and crossbows, and little winged creatures called Ferario, flying about offering help or hindrance depending on their mood.

The Legion's cavalry and the infantrymen who had mounts were able to escape into the countryside, but almost all of the remaining infantry was captured.