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cuirassiers (noun): Members of a European cavalry unit known for wearing cuirasses, which are armored breastplates. This term is commonly used in military history and discussions of traditional cavalry units
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I will not ask the cuirassiers to dance with me.
In was the one on which he had lost the cuirassiers.
They were cuirassiers.
The last supplied the complete armor of the heavy cuirassiers.
Colonel of cuirassiers.
During this career he switched to the cavalry and became commander of a regiment of cuirassiers.
Officer of Cuirassiers with his new sword.
He ordered Cratz to ride into battle with the second echelon of cuirassiers.
A parade of Cuirassiers at the racecourse.
He enlisted in the Prussian army and became commander of the sixth regiment of cuirassiers.
Cavalry support came in the form of cuirassiers from the Rhineland.
The cuirassiers routed most of the Spanish horsemen and rode down a Spanish battery.
The Austrian grenadiers and cuirassiers would advance between the rivers.
I was the trumpeter of the Six Cuirassiers.
You will recall that the Cuirassiers could reach only the nearest of the three batteries.
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Martial returned to the Colonel of Cuirassiers.
The French cuirassiers wore plumed helmets and breastplates almost unchanged from the Napoleonic period.
Kulikovsky was appointed as captain in the Blue Cuirassiers and posted to the provinces.
French cuirassiers from the 3rd regiment during a charge.
He chose to serve with the Cuirassiers in Cologne.
Following in the family tradition, he became colonel of the 1st regiment of cuirassiers.
Britain possessed no armoured Cuirassiers or Heavy cavalry.
August served as a Commando for four years in the Guards Cuirassiers.
A parade of Cuirassiers.
The Cuirassiers of NANSOUTY 'S division were drawn up in order of battle along the road.
It was a terrible moment when our cuirassiers crossed the valley ; it.
He served as an adjutant to Michał Franciszek Sapieha, and later commanded a company of cuirassiers.
Squares, but the horses of our cuirassiers were exhausted by twenty.
Story of a warrant officer in the 9th French Cuirassiers.
This time only the 3rd Cuirassiers were engaged in action.
Light cuirassiers had a buff-colored tunic, high boots, and wore a helmet with plume.
Have ordered them up an hour sooner, when our cuirassiers were in the.
I will not ask the cuirassiers to dance with me . It is a dance.
The heavy cavalry, cuirassiers.
French cuirassiers ( troopers of the 3rd regiment ) during a charge.
Soon the Prussians are re-inforced with five squadrons of cuirassiers and a battalion of grenadiers.
The 350 cuirassiers crashed into the Spanish cavalry and scattered them.
As the retreating infantry fled, d'Hautpoul's cuirassiers captured four guns and two standards.
Fugger 's cuirassiers charged and, striking at a favourable angle, threw back Marsin 's squadrons in disorder.
Fedor Rhona-Rhonau Grigorievic, cuirassiers regiment captain.
Guard, the cuirassiers of Milhaud and of Kellerman, and the chasseurs.
The 23rd of August, riflemen and cuirassiers join the resistant fighters.
The VII Corps might have been totally destroyed but for a " timely charge " by Defrance 's cuirassiers.
There, Colonel Lhéritier led his cuirassiers during Marshal Murat 's famous cavalry charge.
In 1683, he was again in the Bavarian service as colonel of a regiment of cuirassiers.
According to one source, only the 2nd Cuirassiers came into action that day.
The Cuirassiers would have done them a high 1,50 to save on fabric.
No, sir, I suggest you send a company of cuirassiers to Manresa, the rest could remain here.
When the Carlist agitation began in 1833, he transferred into the cuirassiers.
The charge of the 13th Cuirassiers at the Battle of Saguntum.
