lancers
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In a stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry instead of infantry, including both heavy, armored lancers and highly mobile mounted bowmen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Modern cavalrymen are more like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Audiences will be put, especially with the addition of stereophonic sound, somewhat in the position of Tennyson's lancers in the Light Brigade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mounted lancers fell in, ahead of and behind the President's car.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ser Jacelyn Bywater went in front, heading a wedge of mounted lancers in black ringmail and golden cloaks.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
