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Meanings of cavalry charge in English

Portuguese
carga de cavalaria
Spanish
carga de caballería
Catalan
càrrega de cavalleria
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Military tactic involving rapid advance toward the enemy using horse-mounted personnel.

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carga de cavalaria
Usage of cavalry charge in English
1
An old-fashioned cavalry charge in the open is useless, and indeed impossible.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, ...
2
I've seen police on horseback, but this was like a cavalry charge.
The Guardian
3
But next time, leave the cavalry charge to the cavalry, OK?'
Lockdown
4
No cavalry charge can take them here, no head-on attack can possibly succeed.
The Lady of the Rivers
5
His southerners made up the center, arrayed for the traditional heavy cavalry charge.
Surrender to the will of the night
6
I hear the clatter of a cavalry charge and some shouting.
The White Queen
7
John Wayne, leading a silver screen cavalry charge, had never looked as fierce.
Riding rockets
8
Thereafter it was a cavalry charge, albeit one that featured a few surprises.
The Guardian
9
Thought that canvas was for a new cavalry charge of yours!
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
10
George Upshur was killed in the cavalry charge under General Stewart at Brandy Station.
Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical ...
11
A well-marshaled cavalry charge always broke a line of soldiers.
The red queen
12
The British force had suffered forty-eight dead, including those lost in the cavalry charge.
The gun
13
He'd never had a better surface for a cavalry charge.
Wizardborn
14
A cavalry charge is a matter of morale above all.
Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
15
I think the cavalry charge in this month's "Nineteenth" will amuse you.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
16
Never has a cavalry charge had such a devastating result.
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
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