uhlans
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We waited until evening, without seeing the uhlans: they had retreated after the first attack, but unfortunately we had not seen Piédelot either.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
There must have been heavy fighting on the 14th, for the sky was all on fire, but all he saw of it was four uhlans behind a hedge.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
On these first days of August, 1914, the cavalry of Austria—the hussars, uhlans, and dragoons, but really all of one type—light cavalry—was equipped uniformly with saber and carbine.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
"Wild horses, much less wild uhlans, couldn't drag me out of this place," I said, feeling as brave and firm as a story-book heroine, though to Tony I may have seemed obstinate as a mule.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
First Mouzon, then Villers, and last Remilly; they were still pressing on northward, with the tramp of the uhlans on the road behind them.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
