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  • 212nd Cavalry Regiment (Australia) — Infobox Military Unit unit name=2nd Cavalry Regiment caption=2nd Cavalry Regiment cap badge country=Australia allegiance= type=Cavalry branch=Army dates=1965 Present specialization=Armoured Reconnaissance command structure=Royal Australian… …

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  • 22Colquhoun Grant (British cavalry general) — For his contemporary and namesake, who was one of the intelligence officers employed by the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War, see Colquhoun Grant (British intelligence officer). John Colquhoun Grant Nickname The Black Giant Born 1764 …

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  • 23Durham Light Infantry — Badge of the Durham Light Infantry Active 1881–1968 Country …

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  • 24The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) — The Charge of the Light Brigade Half a league, half a league,   Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death   Rode the six hundred. Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns he said: Into the valley of Death   Rode the six hundred …

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  • 25M2 Light Tank — Infobox Weapon name=Light Tank M2A4 caption=Fitters are at work assembling an M2A4 light tank which has just arrived at a British ordnance depot. type=Light tank origin=United States is vehicle=yes length=4.43 m (14.53 ft) width=2.47 m (8.1 ft)… …

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  • 26Children of the Light (The Wheel of Time) — In the fictional world of Robert Jordan s fantasy series The Wheel of Time, the Children of the Light, disparagingly called Whitecloaks for their characteristic white cloaks, are a military organization based in Amador, the capital city of… …

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  • 27Australian Light Horse — noun an Australian mounted division, consisting of several brigades, which served in the Middle East in World War I. Many recruits for the Australian Light Horse were experienced horsemen from cattle farming districts. The role of the Light Horse …

  • 28(the) Charge of the Light Brigade — the Charge of the Light Brigade [the Charge of the Light Brigade] a famous attack by British ↑cavalry (= soldiers on horses) during the ↑Crimean War in 1854. An order was understood wrongly, and the soldiers, armed only with ↑ …

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  • 29Hakkapeliitta — (Finnish pl. hakkapeliitat ) was the term used in the Holy Roman Empire for a Finnish light cavalryman in the service of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden during the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648). A Hakkapeliitta was also known as a Hackapelit,… …

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  • 30hussar — n. Light armed dragoon, light cavalry man …

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