The English ascended the hill, their mail-clad squadrons interlaced with archers, in order that the Welsh infantry might be assailed by missiles before they were exposed to the shock of a cavalry charge.
They had fixed the butts of their lances into the ground, hoping thus to resist the shock of a cavalry charge.
But with ordinary infantry the case was different; exposed, without discipline and with a miscellaneous assortment of dissimilar weapons, to a cavalry charge, they could not combine to withstand it, but were ridden down and crushed.
The moral of the day had been that the archery must be adequately supported on its flanks by troops capable of arresting a cavalry charge.
The earliest were simply tubes affixed to a stick and fired by means of a lighted match; some of them were ignited from the muzzle, thus indicating that they were shotless and only used to frighten horses in a cavalry charge.
It was designed especially for the use of foot soldiers when rushing upon knights who had been dismounted in a cavalry charge, or for the close encounter of infantry against infantry.
When the enemy opens an artillery fire on a square, preparatory to a cavalry charge, his fire must cease when his cavalry approaches the square; say, on its arriving within one hundred and fifty yards.
Where infantry is well disciplined, and its commander is cool and prompt, it may sometimes avoid the effect of a cavalry chargeby other means than its fire, or formation in square.
In repulsing a cavalry charge, coolness and presence of mind will sometimes enable troops to accomplish extraordinary results.
It might be concluded from this long statement that a moral pressure, which always causes flight when a bold attack is made, would not permit any infantry to hold out against a cavalry charge; never, indeed, against a determined charge.
It is because at heart he is convinced that only the first rank can act in a cavalry charge, and that this rank can receive no impression, no speeding up, from those behind it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavalry charge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
