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unusual facts about lancers



12th Royal Lancers

On 28 August 1914, 'C' Squadron of the 12th Lancers, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Wormald, made a successful charge against a dismounted squadron of Prussian Dragoons at Moy.

14th Murray's Jat Lancers

The 14th Murray's Jat Lancers appear as (Jat Lancer) in the computer game Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties.

20th Lancers

The 15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis) was formed at Lahore in 1858 by Captain C Cureton from six risallahs of Multani Pathans originally raised in 1857 by Ghulam Hasan Khan as The Multani Regiment of Cavalry.

21st Lancers

Brighton, Terry, The Last Charge: the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman.

2nd Lancers Regiment

The Portuguese lancers were given the mission (and created for the purpose) to defend the Queen Maria II.

Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr

The mubarizun unit of the Rashidun army was composed of elite warriors who were champion swordsmen, lancers and archers.

Austin Timeous Miller

He entered the Indian Army on 28 August 1910 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Lancers (Hodson’s Horse), and was advanced to Lieutenant in December 1911.

Battle of Abu Tellul

The fords on the Jordan River at Makhadet Hijla and El Hinu were held by the Mysore and Hyderabad Lancers while the Ghoraniyeh bridgehead was garrisoned by the Alwar and Patiala Infantry Battalions and the 14th and 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigades of the 2nd Mounted Division.

Battle of Huamantla

The next day, October 9, Lane's vanguard of Texas Rangers under Captain Samuel Walker reached the town and sighted roughly 2,000 Mexican lancers.

Battle of Sirmium

The centre, which had constituted the rearguard on the march, was commanded by Kontostephanos himself, and consisted of the imperial guards units, including the Varangians and Hetaireiai, units of Italian mercenaries from Lombardy (probably lancers) and a unit of 500 armored Serbian allied infantry, as well as the Vlach cavalry.

Claude Campos

In 1971, Graham Leggat kicked Campos in the face in a game between the Lancers and the Toronto Metros.

Elley

John Elley (died 1839), Governor of Galway, Colonel of the 17th Lancers, a British cavalry officer who fought with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars

François Claude du Barail

At nineteen, he enlisted in the Oran lancers, and distinguished himself by his bravery at Mostaganem in February 1840, was mentioned in dispatches from the army in 1842, and appointed the same year, Lieutenant.

Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen

8: "The Lancers Jig/The Further in the Deeper" are two jigs from the playing of legendary Donegal fiddle player John Doherty.

Gottlieb Polak

After military service with the 11th Lancers in Pardubice from 1904 to 1907, he then was transferred, in 1908, to the Campaign Riding School (Hofstallungen) in Vienna, where he served Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria as one of his many duties.

Longwood Lancers men's basketball

The Longwood Lancers men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, United States.

Royal Dragoon Guards

In the winter of 1997, A Squadron, RDG, deployed with their Challenger 1s tanks to Barice in Bosnia (Op Lodestar) with the 9th/12th Lancers Battle group.

Roydon, Essex

Roydon has two dedicated restaurants located in the High Street: Bengal Lancers, an Indian restaurant and Franco's a family-run Italian restaurant.

Sal DeRosa

He took over as coach the Lancers (who had since moved to the NASL) midway through the 1970 season, bringing five of the Scorpions’ top players along with him, including midfielder Frank Odoi and goalie Claude Campos.

Steve Rexe

He would go on to play with the Ottawa Nationals, Belleville Mohawks, Belleville Quintes of the OHA Senior League, Greensboro Generals of the EHL, the AHL,Springfield Kings where he back-stopped the Kings to a Calder Cup title in 1975, the Springfield Indians also of the AHL, Napanee Comets and Lindsay Lancers of the OHA Sr.

The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum

The Queen's Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum traces the history of three old and famous cavalry Regiments: The Queen's Royal Lancers, The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and The South Nottinghamshire Hussars.

Virginia Lancers

Mario Roberge - former Lancers forward who went on to play 112 games with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1991-1995.

William Mervine

José Antonio Carrillo, a Californio rancher, led 50 Spanish Californio lancers in that defeat of Mervine and the American forces.


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