0 the group of soldiers in an army who fight in tanks, or (especially in the past) on horses --
1 an army group which fights from armored vehicles, helicopters (= type of aircraft), or, esp. in the past, while riding horses --
These depots will also form permanent recruiting centres for certain cavalry regiments, and the recruits will be clothed and armed at them.
Patrols by cavalry will be difficult, but by motor-car it can largely be carried out.
Pitched battles were usually decided by heavy cavalry, but since the royal gendarmerie was largely recruited from the nobility it was a scarce resource which had to be carefully husbanded.
It asserted that the infantry was the dominant arm, and that the other arms - the cavalry, artillery, and engineers - largely existed to act as their servants.
Mobile divisions might consist of either a cavalry brigade or an infantry brigade in buses and two mixed armoured brigades.
Many of these women were the wives of cavalry officers who had access to horses through their husband's line of work.
The priest and the cavalry officer have learned to measure non-existence against mere incapacity.
But these were almost exclusively cavalry and infantry commissions without any advanced technical training.
