40,000 Cavalry, regular and irregular, among which a Brigade of Akalies in cuirasses and chain armour, "The Invincibles." ❋ Unknown (1903)
A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We might imagine the scene: French leaders with their burnished helmets, gleaming cuirasses, arquebuses, flags, and feathers; the Huron and Algonquin in vivid face paint, buckskins, bows, arrows, beadwork, and more feathers. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
So he bade them prepare for battle and brought forth to them hauberks and cuirasses and helmets and swords and all manner of warlike gear, such as lay low warriors and do to death the champions of mankind. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage breathing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He calls these petits sachets de baudruche “Candoms, from the doctor who invented them” (Littré ignores the word) and declares that the famous Ricord compared them with a bad umbrella which a storm can break or burst, while others term them cuirasses against pleasure and cobwebs against infection. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As soon as it was morning Jaland mounted with two hundred and sixty-thousand fighting-men, clad cap-à-pie in hauberks and cuirasses and strait-knit mail-coats, the kettle-drums beat a point of war and all drew out for cut and thrust and fight and fray. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One of their cuirasses, pierced on the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the Waterloo Museum. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long sabre-swords. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They wore linen cuirasses reaching to the groin, and instead of the ordinary ❋ Unknown (2007)
These proposals were carried, and that night two hundred slingers were enrolled, and next day as many as fifty horse and horsemen passed muster as duly qualified; buff jackets and cuirasses were provided for them, and a commandant of cavalry appointed to command — Lycius, the son of Polystratus, by name, an Athenian. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lacedaemonians began to be sorely distressed, for their felt cuirasses did not protect them against the arrows, and the points of the javelins broke off where they struck them. ❋ Thucydides (2007)
Daniel calls French by anticipation, used bows and arrows in their armies, and whether they had helmets and cuirasses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I plan to have a lancer regiment and a cuirassier regiment they don't wear cuirasses during this period and the usual overload of artillery for the men in green. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2007)
When the enemy saw them so unexpectedly approaching, not one of them was able to maintain tranquility: some began running to their divisions, some fell into line, some might be seen bitting and bridling their horses, some donning their cuirasses, and one and all were like men about to receive rather than to inflict a blow. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They had at their back other Persians also, armed with cuirasses, as many as three hundred. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the left were troopers wearing white cuirasses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Cyrus was with his bodyguard of cavalry about six hundred strong, all armed with corselets like Cyrus, and cuirasses and helmets; but not so Cyrus: he went into battle with head unhelmeted21. ❋ Unknown (2007)
[The knight's] [cuirass] protected him from [arrows] to the heart. ❋ Marc Swift (2005)
