1
The French cuirassiers were driven back and pursued until the English brigade came under infantry fire.
2
Suddenly, directly in front of him, was an enormous French cuirassier upon an equally enormous horse.
3
They say that at Eckmühl, for every French cuirassier down, fourteen Austrians were struck in the back.
4
They met here a most stubborn resistance, the French cuirassiers charging the advancing infantry with the greatest resolution.
5
Twice were the Fifty-sixth surrounded by French cuirassiers, and twice did we mow them down by our fire.
6
On the left were six hundred French cuirassiers and the eighteen hundred troops of Parma, commanded by Count Egmont.
7
The men of his company, roaring curses at the Frenchmen, prepare to receive and repel a thundering charge of French cuirassiers.
8
They leaped the hedge, or burst through it, crossed the road-atthat point of shallow depth-andmet the French cuirassiers in full charge.
9
But, in the same battle, the Sixty-ninth British Regiment was instantly rolled up and destroyed by a charge of French cuirassiers on its flank.