uhlans
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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 E. P. Robins
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 Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
Swiftly as men forget, that country-side was still alive with tales of uhlans, and outlying sentries, and hairbreadth 'scapes from the ignominious cord, and pleasant momentary friendships between invader and invaded.
From Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson
It was asserted that the uhlans had possession of the bridge, another bridge that had not been destroyed, for the reason, this time, that some one had neglected to provide the necessary powder.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
At that moment the curtain was raised, and on the stage a company of Irish volunteers and a number of German uhlans were revealed.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith
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