Cavalry Quotes

Cavalry Quote of the day

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.