While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

While Plains and Plateau tribes are renowned for their beaded horse trappings, Subarctic tribes such as the Dene bead lavish floral dog blankets.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

While he was playing a game of polo on horseback ( also called chougan in Persia ), his horse fell and Aibak was impaled on the pommel of his saddle.

While Morse was painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father that read one line, " Your dear wife is convalescent ".

While searching for a group of relentless horse thieves, Roosevelt met Seth Bullock, the famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota.

While bridges could be constructed over relatively narrow canals, they were more costly on wide navigable rivers, and in many cases horse ferries were provided, to enable the horse to reach the next stretch of towpath.

While this style of riding may have felt more secure for the rider, it also impeded the freedom of the horse to use its body to the extent needed to clear large obstacles.

[...] While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad.

While leaving the palace, he took the bridle from his horse, and tied the two officers together.

While other Mangifera species ( e. g. horse mango, M. foetida ) are also grown on a more localized basis, Mangifera indica – the ' common mango ' or ' Indian mango ' – is the only mango tree commonly cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.

While Buford was calling for quarter, Tarleton's horse was struck by a musket ball and fell.

While the metal percussion cap was the most popular and widely-used type of primer, their small size made them difficult to handle under the stress of combat or while riding a horse.

While the attention of horse racing fans and the media is focused almost exclusively on the horse's performance on the racetrack, or for male horses possibly its success as a sire, little publicity is given to brood mares.

While on his way from Fort Bibb to Fort Dale with four other men, Captain Butler was wounded and thrown from his horse, but attempted to make his escape.

While some trails exist in this parcel, as of 2008 additional horse and hiking trails are under development and parking is still limited.

While Colonel Potter goes to Tokyo on R & R, his horse develops colic.

While shooting the series in England, he suffered a serious injury to his back falling from his horse while shooting a scene.

While leading one of the charges in person, the 72-year-old Blücher's horse was shot and fell upon him.

While riding through the Lost Woods of Hyrule on his horse Epona, the masked Skull Kid and his fairy accomplices Tatl and Tael ambush Link and steal both Epona and the powerful musical instrument, the Ocarina of Time.

Towards the evening we bade them adieu and took horse, being resolved that, instead of the race which fails us, we would go to Epsom When we come there we could hear of no lodging, the town so full, but which was better, I went towards Ashsted, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could not stand upright in While supper was getting I walked up and down behind my cosen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy.

While the bombardment continued however, the Royalist dragoons advanced on each flank and drove back the Parliamentarian dragoons and musketeers covering their wings of horse.

While he waited for the fresh reinforcements to arrive, Marlborough flung himself into the mêlée, rallying some of the Dutch cavalry who were in confusion.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

While most modern " cavalry " units have some historic connection with formerly mounted troops this is not always the case.

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

While Napoleon has taken a short leave from the field — again stricken with stomach pain — Ney sees the movement and believes the British are retreating, and orders the French cavalry to advance on them.

While Master of the Sword, Patton became an instructor at Fort Riley and improved and modernized the Army's cavalry saber fencing techniques.

While evidence of settlement at present-day Wiesbaden dates back to the Neolithic era, historical records document continuous occupancy after the erection of a Roman fort in 6 AD which housed an auxiliary cavalry unit.

While designed as a cavalry weapon, it also came to replace various types of straight-bladed swords used by infantry.

While trying to elude Union cavalry, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold crossed into the county from Maryland on April 21, 1865 after assassinating US president Abraham Lincoln.

While Col. Morgan's small band held off a main Union force under Major General Cullem Gillem on the opposite side the Holston River, Col. Samuel Patton took a force of cavalry to a ford in the river north and came down behind the Confederates.

While there there is not complete agreement among historians on the exact numbers there is general agreement that there was about 50, 000 on each side with the French having more cavalry and the allies having more infantry.

While Blücher was being taken from the field the French cavalry beat off the Prussian cavalry counter-attack.

While the actual pitched battle was short, the French infantry, under Marshal Marmont, and most of all the cavalry, under General Emmanuel de Grouchy, launched a relentless pursuit that rode down the enemy.

While strengthening finished crossing the bridge and managed something the " trafficking " of troops, vehicles, guns and cavalry through the streets of the city, he heard the first rumblings of musketry and cannon from the French army.

While Bessières was being carried away from the battlefield, Nansouty and his Carabiniers-à-Cheval managed to capture an Austrian artillery battery but Liechtenstein duly sent his fresh cavalry, the 6th Rosenberg Chevaulegers and 4th Kronprinz Ferdinand Cuirassiers against them.

While the Carthaginians were in the process of defeating the Roman cavalry, the mass of infantry on both sides advanced towards each other in the center of the field.

While the Mongol light cavalry attacked from the flanks and the heavy cavalry attacked from the front, Mongol archers peppered the Polish forces with arrows.

While timid in the wild and vicious if threatened, they tame rather easily and act as vehicles, as well as quick and effective cavalry.

While the river Weser normally cannot be easily forded, during the summer the water level drops down to a low of 80 cm (~ 3 feet ) between Münden and Hameln, making it possible for infantry and cavalry to cross.

While in the infirmary, he requested that the cavalry commander, J. E. B. Stuart, take his place in command.