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Twenty-four regiments formed part of the Restoration army, but subsequent restructuring reduced this number as some were converted to lancers.
The lancers wore the czapka of the Polish uhlans, the hussars wore the dolmans of Hungarian horsemen.
Both uhlan and czapska derive from Turkish and clearly associate the Polish lancers with origins in Turkey.
I just went to Thomson's around the time of the First War where they learned you quadrilles and lancers.
Colin Baker had learned to ride horses while commanding the Hunter River lancers from 1983-86 as a member of the Army reserve.
But when free of the classroom, he transforms himself into the role of the leader of an elite corps of Polish lancers in Napoleon's army.
A regiment of United States lancers were drawn up in a hollow square round the Lethal Chamber.
Curiously, perhaps anticipating a conflict with Eastern European cavalry forces, his manual also contains advice in facing a charge against lancers.
To a troop of war-hardened lancers from the 19th century, they would have looked like giant steel-toothed beetles crawling across the parade ground.
Of the 21 dances listed, there are six quadrilles and four lancers, making up almost half of the dances in the evening.
The lancers, a variation of the quadrille, became popular in the late 1800s and was still danced in the mid-20th century in folk-dance clubs.
Most cavalry were probably equipped with pistols and swords, although there is some evidence that they included lancers.
The lancers chafing in the right gorge had thrice dispatched their only subaltern as galloper to report on the progress of affairs.
The dances included quadrilles, galops, lancers and waltzes.
During the second half of the 18th century another type of cavalry, the lancers, was added specifically to root out gunners hiding under their cannons' barrels.
The Lancers Quadrille was full of grace, with its salutes and its bows, its slow and solemn movement.
When not flying, the Lancers frequented the game tables in their verandaed ops shack north of Wing.
The men, from the Queen's Royal Lancers, were named as Corporal Adams and Trooper Clarke.
The smart regiments in the Indian army were the guys with the Lancers and the Gurkhas.
After ten years of further purchase, he gained command of the 17th Lancers.
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Grant wished him to take English lancers, but Roberts said Englishmen were too noisy and jingly, and helpless if separated.
A set of lancers had been danced with so much spirit and enjoyment that it had been encored.
He was in the 17th lancers with your uncle Charles, who was very fond of him.
The 9th lancers charged with great gallantry among them, and defeated them.
One still danced the polka in those days, and the schottische and the dear old lancers, though the waltz was already the favorite.
All take partners for the lancers and promenade around the hall!
General Roberts ordered him to send the lancers at the enemy at a charge.
In the ballroom, meanwhile, the dancers were being formed into squares for the lancers.
We next had a kitchen lancers, and this year we have a barn dance.
Milhaud's Heavy Dragoons, with the 4th lancers, came up at a gallop.
In that parade were Dyak headhunters and Indian lancers, while camel troops stirred reporters to near delerium.
And I have one hundred archers and a score of lancers, but there are two hundred men who wait for me on this side of the water upon the borders of Navarre.
Besides the Bhopal battalion, a regiment of imperial service cavalry is maintained, under the name of the Victoria Lancers.
But Lancers are usually no match against other cavalry, who can parry and ripost before the lance can resume the guard.
A regiment of Lancers came charging down the Broad Walk, armed with holly-leaves, with which they jog the enemy horribly in passing.
No Lancers were seen with the column, certainly none with pennons.
The Lancers had broken into the fire hall and stolen the apparatus.
At Shabkadr a charge of the 13th Bengal Lancers was more than successful.
The Lancers grinded out possessions and pushed Silverton around.
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