He brought with him military greetings from the militia, and the fact that a company of infantryhad entered the town.
The columns of infantryadvanced through the village.
The ring of horses' hoofs and the hollow march of the infantrywere now heard.
During this conversation the rest of the horsemen and the infantry had drawn nearer to catch the words.
In weather like this, the infantry will take an hour to get here.
They are riding up along the brook to the bridge, and the infantry are storming the village from behind.
The infantryin the middle, the horsemen at both sides: quite a Roman order of battle.
Now that he had been through it, he knew as little of it at first hand as a heavy gunner in France does of the advancing infantry whose path forward he is cutting out.
Fritz massed his destroyers like Prussian infantry and tried to rush up close so as to strafe us with the torpedo.
Some infantry officers arrived, ordered the gates to be closed, and strongly reprimanded their soldiers.
Accustomed to military exercises, as good a rider as could be seen, he never let a day pass without devoting some hours to sword and lance practice and the use of infantry arms, which he managed with extraordinary rapidity and address.
There happened to be stationed at Clonmel a regiment of infantry in which there served a captain named Maurice St. Leger Farmer.
He knew that time would fight for him far more surely than infantry and horse.
That, at least, is the amount allowed to a private of infantry or artillery.
The sums named apply only to the infantry and artillery.
Alzura's announcement woke us up, and running forward, we glanced eagerly at the hill, which a battalion of infantry was descending.
The cavalry and the remainder of the infantry were posted lower down the mountain side.
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining food, Colonel Miller now sent most of our infantry back to Macas; the Indians were thrown forward to act as a screen in front; while the rest of us bivouacked in some meadows near the village.
Between the infantry of each division appeared the cavalry, the riders leading their horses and advancing with difficulty.
Stopping their flight, our own infantry rallied, and advanced in support, while their loud cheers proclaimed the arrival of a second cavalry regiment.
How our infantry battalion would cheer, how proudly they would greet us, should we return victorious!
Then the infantry formed in battalions, the horsemen mounted, bugles sounded in numerous places; there was a cracking of whips, the creaking of wheels, and all began to move slowly forward.
Alzura, as the infantry on our right slowly advanced.
The cavalry, consisting of four regiments, was stationed in the centre, with an infantry division on either side, and a third in the rear as a reserve.
Our infantry columns marched to the attack like so many automatic machines; the Royalists waited firmly, as if confident of victory.
An infantry battalion peppered us from the right, and a squadron was drawn up right across our path.
Then he returned to me, saying, "Carts have gone by hours since, and the infantry quite recently, but I see no signs of cavalry.
The weather was intensely cold, and even at the ford the infantry were breast high in icy water.
In this was placed a strong body of infantry under Captain Semple, a Scotchman.
Seeing, however, how fruitless were the efforts of Horn to capture the Weinberg, he despatched as many of his infantry as he could spare to reinforce the marshal.
The Imperialists, discouraged by the fall of their general, could not withstand the ardour with which the Swedes and Scottish infantryattacked them, and the cavalry rode from the field.
Attacked with fury on their flank by Furstenberg's horse, while his infantry and artillery poured a direct fire into their front, the Saxons at once gave way.
After two days they brought up a reinforcement of four hundred infantry and some cannon.
They had brought with them the portable chevaux-de-frise carried by the infantry in the Swedish service.
So active and watchful were the Croats that these enterprises seldom succeeded, although, to enable his men to move with celerity, Gustavus mounted bodies of infantry on horseback.
The drawbridge of the castle had been drawn up, the avenues leading to it guarded, and twenty infantry soldiers and six of Butler's dragoons were in hiding in the apartment next to the banqueting hall.
There were Butler's dragoons and an infantry regiment in garrison there when we arrived; six regiments accompanied us on the march, and I fear that all these must now be considered as having gone over to the Imperialists.
The rest of the infantry were divided into the Yellow, Blue, and White Brigades.
The advanced troopers and a half company of infantrywere driven in, contesting every foot of the way.
The main body of his infantry he formed into four massive brigades, which were flanked on both sides by musketeers intermixed with cavalry.
Ere long mountedinfantry will again become a recognized arm of the service.
The next thing any of us knew the British infantry threw away their arms, and began to cry for quarter.
We annoyed Cornwallis so much that he sent Colonel Tarleton with the lightinfantry and some cavalry to push us to the utmost.
Arrows were whizzing fast around the ears of the horsemen in the advance, when the infantry approached.
Cortés hastily dispatched a messenger to bring up his infantry and stood off the overwhelming masses of the enemy as best he could.
The infantryfollowed in a panic, and many of the men were pierced by the Aztec arrows, or struck down by war clubs.
The rear guard was formed of infantry under Alvarado and De Leon, while the center was in charge of Cortés, himself, with some heavy guns, the baggage and the treasure.
Lastly there is a wide volunteer organisation, stretching from fully organised companies of infantry and mounted rifles down to small local rifle clubs.
The work of its infantry and artillery is worthy of the best armies of the world.
Infantry of the World War* Zero hour The exact time at which you start forward to attack.
The full complement of infantry in a division is 12.
He has not pressed an attack but has kept his infantry back, not pushing them forward to close range, but contenting himself with shelling the Boer positions.
Ramdam is not to be found, but if it is on the Riet above Jacobsdal the probability is that Hannay's brigade was covering the right flank of the infantry divisions.
Sir Redvers Buller on Wednesday, the 10th, had under his command three infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade, some two thousand mounted infantry, and probably altogether about eighty guns.
Sir Redvers Buller before the troops left the camps beside the railway had six infantry brigades.
In Natal Sir George White has some ten thousand regular troops and two thousand volunteers, the regulars being eight or nine infantry battalions, four regiments of cavalry, six field batteries, and a mounted battery.
On Tuesday, the 16th, Lyttelton's brigade of infantry with a battery of howitzers crossed the Tugela at Potgieter's Drift and gained a line of hills to the north, probably the edge of the plateau on which lies the Boer position.
On Tuesday French was off again to the north with a cavalry brigade, a mounted infantry brigade, and a horse artillery brigade, a second cavalry brigade, under Colonel Gordon moving on his right.
There are three British divisions, strong in infantry but weak in artillery, and there is cavalry enough for a strong division.
The Boers are all horsemen and can ride from point to point more than twice as fast as the British infantry can march; they live in British territory by requisitions or loot, and therefore can limit their transport train.
This force, of which the infantry belongs to Lyttelton's brigade, carried and defended against counter attack a hill called Vaal Krantz, at the eastern end of the Brakfontein ridge.
On Thursday morning Lord Dundonald with the cavalry brigade and some of the mounted infantry was in possession of the hills overlooking Potgieter's Drift and of the pont or ferry-boat.
No telegram as yet gives its distribution, but it is plain that Clery's and Warren's divisions moved out, together with the cavalry brigade and whatever mounted infantry had not been sent south.
Lord Roberts has four infantry divisions, a cavalry brigade, and at least one brigade of mounted infantry, his total strength amounting to at least fifty thousand men.
Hannay's brigade of mounted infantry from Orange River, on the march to Ramdam, had to cover its right flank against a party of Boers.
Pemberton must have known that none of the enemy's infantry and artillery had marched in this direction through the storm, and in the mud, or else our scouts are worthless.
And he says there was peril on Thursday, the enemy's cavalry being between our infantry and the city, and it will not do to rely always on his want of enterprise.
On the 9th the enemy's cavalry and a strong force ofinfantry crossed the Rappahannock and attacked Gen.
Cavalry continue to pass through this city from the south, while infantry are passing to the south.
It is said a dispatch came from Bragg yesterday (I saw it not) stating that Wheeler and some infantry had a sharp battle with Sherman's advance, near Millen, in which the latter suffered greatly.
The rebel officers at Chambersburg stated that they were only waiting for infantry to move forward.
Better, far better, would it be for the Secretary to borrow or impress one hundred thousand horses, and mount our infantry to cut the communications of the enemy, and hover on his flanks like the Cossacks in Russia.
Wheeler was, yesterday, confronting the enemy's infantryat Sandersville.
He also recommends a rule of the department putting cavalry on foot when they cannot furnish good horses, and mounting infantry that can and will procure them.
From Vicksburg we have no further intelligence; but from the Rappahannock we learn that both artillery and infantry were distinctly heard yesterday in the direction of Dumfries.
Infantry will not fight with hunting rifles or shot-guns; and the department will not accept mounted men, on account of the expense of transportation, etc.
Troops are daily coming hither, infantry and cavalry, whence in one hour and a half the former reach Lee's army.
Jones squeaks from the West, asking that the 3000 infantry he was at last compelled to send to Gen.
Stuart with his cavalry moved on the flank of the column whenever the ground was open, so as to conceal the march of the infantry from the enemy.
This they did and opened their fire on the Northern infantry with such effect that these fell back to the position near the town that they had occupied in the morning.
Beauregard had at Petersburg only two infantry and two cavalry regiments under General Wise, while a single brigade fronted Butler at Bermuda Hundred.
The cavalry marched by road, while the infantry were despatched by rail as far as Manassas Junction, whence they marched to Harper's Ferry.
The cavalry had performed their duty of preventing the news of the movement from reaching the enemy until the infantry were nearly a day's march away, and then Stuart reassembled his men and followed Johnston.
Riding some distance ahead of his troop to find out the position of the enemy, he came upon a company of Federal infantrysitting down in a field, having no idea whatever that any Confederate force was in the neighborhood.
Vincent joined his corps on the same afternoon that the infantry marched out from Harper's Ferry, the general sending him forward with despatches as soon as the troops had got into motion.
All day the fight went on, the Federals attempting to crush the Confederate artillery by the weight of their fire in order that their infantry columns might again advance.
As soon as he reached Chancellorsville Hooker set his troops to work cutting down trees and throwing up earthworks for infantry and redoubts for artillery, erecting a double line of defenses.
In half an hour the French infantry had reached the spot, but another two hours elapsed before any hostile movement was made, the leaders of the assailants giving their men that time to rest after their long march.
A pause took place, during which the bulk of the English infantry got back to Falkirk.
The infantry was broken and cut to pieces; the dragoons, who behaved shamefully on the occasion, turned bridle and fled, without having once crossed swords with the enemy.
Three of the four infantry companies would also march for Laramie at dawn.
He only vaguely knew from remarks he had heard at mess that General Crook had called for reinforcements, and that Sheridan was ordering up cavalry and infantry to his support.
Gleason's business with his infantry friend was of slight moment, apparently, as he speedily left him and wended his way to the quarters of the commanding officer.
Already the infantry were packing up and shipping their goods and chattels to their new posts, and it was just barely possible that, with a little dissembling and apparent indifference, the train of talk might be thrown from the track.
One of these is far up on the Missouri, where the cavalry ladies are all invited to hear the infantry orator of the day--and go.
Just now her time was taken up with Mrs. Whaling and the infantry officers, for there was a blockade at number 11.
Any statement of her sainted child was promptly backed by her adoring mother, and, well, there was disbelief, not loud but deep, of this statement among the infantry ladies.
After the battle of Chaeroneia, in which the Boeotian heavy infantry once again distinguished itself, the land never rose again to prosperity.
At the age of fourteen, he suddenly left school and joined the 7th infantry regiment; but tiring of garrison life at Setubal after two years, he decided to enter the navy.
The cavalry right wing was in the open, the French infantry near Oberglau, which was strongly held, the Bavarian infantrynext on the left, and finally the Bavarian cavalry with a force of foot on the extreme left in the hills.
In the meanwhile the first line of Marlborough's infantry had crossed lower down, and the first line of cavalry, following them across, had been somewhat severely handled by Tallard's cavalry.
But credit should be given to the people for their splendid military qualities: both their cavalry and heavy infantry achieved a glorious record.
At first the on-rushing Moros had been almost stopped by the sudden, low, accurate infantry fire.
Now, as the crackling of the Gatling rose on the air, and its projectiles swept the road ahead, constantly supported by brisk infantry fire from at least forty men, the natives were forced to halt.
On they dashed, though the Gatling and the steady infantry fire withered the ranks in advance.
Take the infantryfire at this point, Sergeant Overton!
And now we find the entire Thirty-fourth Infantry in Manila, stationed there briefly pending details at other points in the islands.
Two companies of the Thirty-second infantry had gone from Bantoc the day before.
Here he was able in the utmost secrecy to fence with Carpentier, who had been a fencing-master in the infantry before entering the cavalry.
The secret of a successful assault is exact synchronization of the movements of the infantry with those of the barrage.
The machine guns assisted by small elements of infantry cover thoroughly the getting in hand of the main body, the machine guns presenting to the enemy a line of little vulnerability.
In the original assault, zero, or the time for the assault to begin, may be fixed for the moment at which our barrage lifts from the enemy front trench, the infantry timing their advance so as to be close under our barrage before it lifts.
This is executed as laid down in the Infantry Drill Regulations.
They cover the movement of the infantry across the open.
Nothing is gained by opening rapid rifle fire unless the enemy's infantry attacks.
The infantry must be taught that their success depends upon their getting within 75 yards of the barrage before it lifts, in order that they may reach the trenches before the enemy can man them.
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